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II,I,U$TRAT^D BOSTON 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND 



1889 




PUBLISHED BY 

AMERICAN PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING CO. 

I02 Chambers Street 

NEW YORK 






CopyniQHT, 1889, by 
THE AMEHICAN PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING CO. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



I^i'in'^^ NATION'S a:rowth is centred in tlic freedom of its institutions, the multiplication and expansion 
K'^^a'S of its workshops and factories, and the increase of its commercial establishments and facilities. 
Bjr^)lTO: Herein lie the attractions to the sons and daughters of other nations where freedom is restrained, 
|:-,-,-;-<,-iy,.. i^ despotism paramount, and commerce crippled, to come and abide with us and help us to build up 
this grand Republic into the greatest and most powerful nation the world has known. 

Upon the historia?! rests the responsibility of chronicling the progress and achievements of communities 
from age to age, and of convoying to present and oncoming generations a faithful representation of the times 
in which he lives. The publishers of this volume have been actuated by a desire to place before the readers of 
these pages, not merely an account of Boston as it was in the past, but as it exists to-day — with its vast empo- 
riums of commerce; its thousands of industrial establishments; its hundreds of wharves, to and from which the 
merchantmen belonging to all the countries of the world come and go; its half a million of people, representing 
every nation and tongue; its halls of learning; its institutions for the cultivation of the arts and dissemination 
of the sciences; its charitable associations and religious edifices; its beautiful parks and drives; its memorials of 
by-gone heroes by flood and field ; its improvements over the past, in buildings and thoroughfares ; its civic 
government; and its attainment to the distinction of the manufacturing and commercial metropolis of New 
England. 

To every American citizen, some knowledge of the history of his country, and of its leading cities, is indis- 
pensable; and in the compiling of this work, telling of the origin of the second city founded on American soil, 
of its subsequent growth and present status, the publishers believe that they have not been uselessly employed, 
and that the reader will rise from the perusal of its pages with an increased knowledge of Boston and its pro- 
gressive people. This book is intended for the average American ; for the manufacturer and merchant, who 
have neither time nor disposition to plod through ten or twenty volumes of elaborate historical dissertations ; for 
the practical man of the shop, the counter, and the plough. The story of the coming of the first settlers to the 
pcar-sha[)cd peninsula on which they began the building up of the present giant city of Boston is briefly but 
iiiteresting.y told ; the great work of converting that which was but a narrow neck connecting the city to 
the mainland, into what is now the broadest part of the municipality, is adequately described ; the valiant deeds 
• if the forefathers, who sounded the tocsin and fired the first guns of the Revolution ; have been concisely but 
faithfully related, and old landmarks pointed out. But the ambition of the authors has been to give a pen-pic- 
ture, with beautiful new illustrations, of the city as it is in this year of grace 1889 ; to tell of the character of its 
multifarious manufactures, and of its miscellaneous commerce; and to make the reader acquainted with its 
representative business men, who have won fame for themselves and made the name of Boston known and 
honored in all the corners of the earth. 

The data given touching the various business enterprises have been drawn from the most authentic sources, 
have been carefully collated and intelligently revised ; and the utmost care has been exercised in order that the 
information herein given may be relied upon, since it is highly desirable that the most accurate knowledo-e 



iv INTRODUCTORY. 

with regard to a coiumunit)' so useful and progressive in trade and manufactures as Boston is should be as 
widely diffused as possible. While it is not claimed that the work is free from imperfections and shortcom- 
in^s, it is confidently asserted that no previous publication of a like character has contained so much new and 
valuable points for reference. The preparation of the work has needed much labor, patience, and perseverance; 
but, great as the task has been, the drudgery of compilation has been shorn of unpleasantness by the universal 
courtesy extended to us, and the cheerful manner in which information has been afforded wherever it was ap- 
plied for. Without such help, this work could not have been issued in the form in which it now is. To so 
many are our thanks due, that it would be impossible to tender them individually ; and though we do so col- 
lectively, our sincerity of appreciation of favors received is none the less. 

Designed for distribution among persons residing in other localities, as well as among the citizens of Bos- 
ton, and especially among those who are unacquainted with the real magnitude of the city and its extraordinary 
manufacturing and mercantile facilities, we are assured that this work will perform a mission of the highest 
utility. It is dedicated to the manufacturer, the merchant, the household, and to the libraries of the rich and of 
the poor. It is inscribed to the business man, to the father, the mother, the son, and the daughter of the Amer- 
ican family. If the man of business, the father, mother, son, and daughter shall be more proud of their ancient 
city, the " Athens of the New World," and love it and their country better, if they shall understand more 
clearly and appreciate more fully the founding, progress, and growth of liberty in the New World, and be 
brought to a more perfect knowledge of the giant strides that are being made in manufactures and commerce 
in the capital of the Old Bay State, the publishers will be abundantly repaid. 

The Publishers. 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Abbott, H. E., insurance ... iSg 

Adams, Blodget & Co. , bankers 264 

Adams, Taylor & Co., wine importing merchants 122 

Adams, F. P. , & Co. , flavoring extracts 1 5S 

Albee, H. L., & Co., manfrs. folding-beds 301 

Albee, Brown & Co., stoves, ranges, etc 2S7 

Albion Milling Co., merchant millers, etc 16S 

Alden Furniture Spring Co., The 192 

Aldrich, H., & Co., eggs, butter, and cheese 1S2 

Allan Line of Royal Mail Steamships 135 

Allen, E., & Co., woolens 24S 

Allen & Whitney, marine insurance brokers 213 

Allen, A. G., hardware, etc 242 

Allen & Ginter, manfrs. cigarettes, etc 266 

Allen Bros., manfrs. rubber and steel stamps 280 

Alliance Insurance Ass'n. The, of New York 297 

Almy, R. T., & Co., clothiers 226 

American Loan and Trust Co. of Omaha, The 138 

American Grip Machine Co 227 

American Loan and Trust Co igS 

American Fire Alarm Co 1 36 

American Investment Co., The 147 

American Manfg. Co., manfrs. fertilizers 1S3 

Amsden, J. F., & Son, bankers 175 

Anderson, Wm. G., window screens, etc iSS 

Andrews, Jno. A., & Co., wholesale grocers 124 

Andrews & Co., truckmen 290 

Appleton, G. C, real estate 271 

.'\ppleton, C. F., boots and shoes 217 

Appleton, S., insurance 144 

Appleton, Geo. B., & Co., cutlery, etc 17S 

Archer & Pancoast Manfg. Co., gas fixtures 177 

Ateshian, O. H., & Co., Turkish and Persian goods. . . 150 

Atkins. H., & Co., wine merchants 122 

Atwood, E. L. , teas, coffees, etc 2S6 

Atwood & Co., commission merchants 272 

Atwood, H. & R., oysters 203 

Babson, C , Jr., American and foreign patents 137 

Bacon. W. M., architect 259 

Bacon, F. H., shirts, etc 256 

Bailey, J. W., & Sons, mouldings, brackets, etc igo 

Bnker. J. Y., & Co., oysters 234 

Baldcrston & Daggett, rubber goods 14S 

Ballance & Sorrell, manfrs. boots and shoes 166 

Bangs & Horton, coal iSo 

Banks, D S.. tea broker 285 

Barber Bros., cigars, etc 287 

Barbour Bros. Co., The, manfrs. thread 137 



Barker & Starbird, photographic apparatus, etc 280 

Barnard's Bakery 270 

Barnes, F. G., & Son, auctioneers, etc 177 

Barnes & Cunningham, bankers and brokers 174 

Barnes, E. B., & Co., manfrs. gold and bronze frames. 160 

Baron & Co. , manfrs. cigars 295 

Barrelle & Co., auctioneers, etc 182 

Barry. J. A., millinery 262 

Bartlett, S. L., teas, cocoas, etc 305 

Bartlett, B. F. , periodicals, cigars, etc 262 

Bastey & .Sutherland, manfrs. harness, etc 24S 

Batcheller, E. & A. H., & Co., manfrs. boots and shoes. 133 

Bates, A. M., carriages, etc 1S2 

Bates, H. M., & Walley, stock brokers T15 

Battey, W. A., commission merchant 163 

Baxter, Stoner & Schenkelberger, manfrs. cut soles and 

taps 1 04 

Bay State House, Geo. Q. Pattee, propr 135 

Bay State Boiler Compound Co., manfrs. boiler com- 
pound, etc 136 

Bay State Manfg. Co., egg-beaters, etc 150 

Beal, J. W., architect 144 

Beale, C. C, publisher, and teacher of phonography. . . 169 

Beals & Co., wholesale leather remnants, etc 181 

Beals, J. W., Jr., timber land investments 180 

Beals, Col. Wm.. public decorator 269 

Beaman Bros., commission merchants 228 

Beebe, L. , & Co., cotton 179 

Beiermeister & Spicer, manfrs. collars and cuffs 240 

Bent, C. T. A., boots and shoes 246 

Berry, C, bottler of lager beer 266 

Berry, A. C, engraver and stationer 255 

Berry, H. W., pianos , 185 

Besses, R. & J., caterers 277 

Bicknell & Robinson, fire insurance 198 

Billman, C, rigger loft 2S4 

Bird, H., & Co., beef, pork, lard, etc 231 

Blackstone National Bank of Boston, The 103 

Blake, C, Furniture Co.. desks, hall-stands, etc.. .. 167 

Blake, C. D., & Co., publishers of music 172 

Blakemore, W. B., real estate 141 

Bliss, J., & Co., grocers, etc igS 

Block, E., & Sons, distillers .. .. 212 

Boardman. E. A., wine merchant 189 

BoUes & Co., bankers and brokers 3^7 

Bond, W., & Son. chronometer and watch makers.... 127 

Boston Consolidated Produce Co 152 

Boston Dyewood and Chemical Co 195 



VI 



GENERAL INDEX. 



FACE 

Boston Daily Globe, The 129 

Boston Dash Stitching Works, J. L. Taylor, Propr 244 

Boston & Gloucester Steamboat Co 207 

Boston Ice Co 168 

Boston & Lockport Block Co., manfrs. self-lubricat- 
ing metaline tackle blocks, etc 157 

Boston Mercantile Business Co 279 

Boston Paste Co., manfrs. paste 289 

Boston Photogravure Co., fine art publishers 137 

Boston PUting Co 2S5 

Boston Rubber Shoe Co 125 

Boston Type Writer Co., The 165 

Boston Tavern, Robinson & Fitzsimmons, Proprs iig 

Boston Watch Co.. W. W. Farr, propr 199 

Bourne & Co., commission merchants 141 

Bowen & Co., real estate, etc 2c,6 

Bowler, W. F., driving and working horses 244 

Boyce. E. J., manfg. jeweler 293 

Boyce Bros., furniture I74 

Boyle Bros., furniture, etc , 1S6 

Boynton & Co., commission merchants 291 

Bracket!, C. A., manfr. paper boxes, etc 237 

Bradbury, B. F., pharmacist 2S5 

Bradley's Troy Laundry, G. E. Bradley, Propr 292 

Braman, D. & Co., bankers and brokers 150 

Bray, E. L., manfr. curtain fixtures 2S3 

Brett, Wm. H., The. Engraving Co 148 

Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook, bankers no 

Brigham & Co., engravers on metal 244 

Brigham & Pillsbury. commission merchants 219 

Brine & Norcross' Reliable Stores, hosiery, gloves, etc. 119 

Broadway Hat Store, Wm. McCarthy, propr 255 

Brockway, J. L. & Co., wholesale grocers 179 

Brooks, S. P., manfr. pianos 2S0 

Brooks, J. N., cotton buyer 303 

Brown, G. D. & Co., mutton, lamb, etc 145 

Brown, E. J. & Co., cotton 252 

Brown, B F. & Co., manfrs. blackings and dressings 

for leather 126 

Brown. Riley & Co., bankers and brokers 175 

Brown, DeLoriea & Co., commission merchants 176 

Brown, A. H. & Bros., millers agts 293 

Browne. G. F., insurance, etc 206 

Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.. billiard tables, etc.... 1S3 

Bumstead, J. F. & Co., paper hangings, etc 179 

Bunker Laundry & Towel Supply 1S6 

Burbank, E. R. , real estate, etc 294 

Burke, J. B., undertaker, etc 251 

Burnham, D S., real estate, etc ig2 

Burrill & Dutton, saws 246 

Butler, W. S. & Co., millinery goods, etc 232 

Butler, E. E., & Co., produce commission merchants.. 29S 

Caley, J , & Co., engravers, etc 261 

California Insurance Co. of San Francisco 145 

Call & Carlton, butter, cheese, etc 2S3 

Campbell Bros., loan brokers 2S4 

Campbell, C. A., & Co.. coal 1:0 

Canning & Patch, pharmacists 194 

Canny. P., West India goods, groceries, etc.. igr 

Cantwell, M., plumber 2S8 



PAGE 

Cape Ann Granite Company 172 

Carleton, R H., & Co., manfrs. boots and shoes 281 

Carleton, A. D., silver and gold plater 265 

Carr, C, mechanical engineer 229 

Carr, D. A. , stoves, ranges, etc 273 

Carrie, W. A., bank stationer, etc 304 

Carrington, R., bookbinder 266 

Carter, C. N., cloaks, suits, and furs 164 

Carter's Band, T. M. Carter, leader 250 

Casey, II. D., manfr. and gilder of frames. . , 2;S 

Caswell, Livermore & Co., salt and pickled fish 176 

Chamberlin, S. W., manfrs. steam cookers 277 

Chandler & Farquhar, hardware, etc 27^ 

Chapin, Trull & Cc . distillers of rum 146 

Chapin Bros., wholesale producecommission 159 

Chapman, A. F , publisher 199 

Chard, D. T.. & Co., cigars 301 

Chase. R. G., & Co., proprs. Chase Nurseries 252 

Chase, W. P.. book lettering and stamping, etc 186 

Chessman, G. H., & Co.. general commission merchants 219 
Chester M.uiufacturin'j Co., suspenders, braces, etc.... 221 

Chicago Lumber Co., A. H. Bolton & Co., agts 202 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 160 

Child, A. J., boarding uid baiting stable 263- 

Cigarmakers' Coonerative Association, The 153 

Citizens' Mutual Insurance Co 197 

Clark, C. C, printer and publisher 279 

Clark, G. A., broker in chemicals 225 

Clark, H. H.. & Co., book printers 233 

Clark, C, insurance 250 

Clark. R. F.. stock broker 168 

Clark & Haley, commission merchants 172 

Clarke. G. R.. & Co., interior decorations 216 

Clarke. G. A. , designer 294 

Clapp, A , & Co., wholesale lumber 232 

Clatur, A. A., leather remnants 102 

Clayton, F. I., tailor 212 

Cleaves, J. H., weigher and ganger 246 

Clement. H. E., & Co., watches, jewelry, etc 302 

Codman & Hall, drugs, etc 239 

Cohn, L., & Co., manfrs. picture frames, etc 241 

Cohn. I., clothing, etc 303 

Coffin. Geo. W., insurance 126 

Collins & Co., real estate, etc 180 

Comer's Commercial College 159 

Commonwealth Loan & Trust Co 15S 

Condell, W. S.. agt. Union Pacific Railway 259 

Condon, T. J., provisions, etc 268 

Conner, W. N., propr. London Hair Store 290 

Coolidge House, Wm P. Comee, propr igg 

Coon, H. J.. & Co.. grain shippers 252 

Coon, H.. &Co., masons, contractors, etc 300 

Cosmopolitan Dining Room, The 255 

Cosiigan. E. A., shipwright and caulker 303 

Cotton & Haley, commission merchants 187 

Cousens & Pratt, sail makers 295 

Cowan. H., watch materials, etc 232 

Coy. S. I., restaurant 156 

Crafts & Co.. druggists 299 

Crawford House 102 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Cressy, M. D., & Co., teamsters and forwarders 245 

Crine, H., manfr. fur garments, etc 133 

Crocker & Eldridge, wholesale grocers 163 

Crosby, Geo. E., & Co., printers 295 

Crowell, S. R., ship broker 293 

Cullen, J. P. , provisions 259 

Cummings, J. A., Printing Co 114 

Curtis, J. G., & Co., coffees and spices 214 

Curtis & Motley, stock and bond brokers 152 

Curtis & Weld, costumers I54 

Cushing, Wm. , & Co. , real estate, etc 237 

Dale, J. P., & Co., publishers and bookbinders 196 

Damm & Penkert, manfrs. clarinets, flutes, etc igi 

Damrell & Upham, bookseller 23S 

Dana, T., & Co., wholesale grocers 210 

Dasey, C. V., steamship agt 143 

Davenport, Peters & Co., lumber 260 

Davenport, Chas. L., salt 151 

Davis, Stebbins, & Co., hardware, etc 274 

Davis, J., & Son, ship stores, etc 265 

Dawson, J. F., gold gilder 125 

Dean, S. B., cut soles and leather 23S 

Deering, Wm., & Co., grain and grass cutting machinery. 122 

De Lue, G. V., & Co., carpenters and builders 246 

Demain, W. C, & Son, manfrs. blank-books, etc 229 

Denham. M. T., treasr. and agt. for Eastern Forge Co. 208 

Dennett, J. A., paper hangings, etc 292 

Derry, C. T., & Co., granite, etc 20S 

Desk E.xchange, office and library furniture 202 

Dewey, S. W, & Co. , cotton buyers 200 

Diamond Cutting 134 

Diaz, R. M., & Co., wholesale hardware 184 

Dickerman, G. H., & Co., manfrs. paper boxes 152 

Dickey, L., manfr. whips, etc 276 

Dinner, I. H., ladies' traveling caps, etc 305 

Dixon, J. B., & Co., lumber 201 

Doane & Co., ship brokers 282 

Doane, A. S., & Co., engravers and printers 242 

Doane, F., & Co., manfrs. blank-books, etc 114 

Dole, C. G., mutton, lamb, etc 105 

Doll & Richards, fine arts 212 

Dooling. J., caterer and confectioner 178 

Dorr, C. A., note broker 265 

Dow, E. C, outer and inner soles, etc 293 

Dowling, P. F., fish and oysters 255 

Downer & Co., bankers and brokers 207 

Drew Bros., groceries, etc 298 

Driscoll, y., manfr. cigars 288 

Dubin & Carroll, manfrs. cigars 266 

Dunbar, D. A., poultry and game 231 

Dimbar, W. H., & Co., tailors 223 

Dunning, G. H., beef, pork, lard, etc 247 

Dunshee & Co., photographers 302 

Dyer, L. M., mutton, lamb, etc 219 

Dyer, Rice & Co., straw goods, robes, furs, etc 127 

Dyer. J. T.. & Co., gents' furnishers 167 

Dyke, Shute & Co., weighers 184 

Eames, C. E.. druggist 182 

Earle, J. H.. publisher, etc 272 

Earle, J., & Co., tailors 224 



Eastern Lobster Co., S. S. Poole, mgr 192 

Eddy, P. E., insurance 215 

Eddy, R. H., solicitor of patents 175 

Edmands, W. H., optician 164 

Egin, Wm., manfr. pipes 304 

Elliot, C. E., & Co., tailors 275 

Elliott, C. D., civil engineer, etc 162 

Ellis, J. D., paper and linen collars 275 

Emerson, W. R., architect 153 

Emerson, T. W., & Co., seeds 173 

Emerson, W. H., molasses and sugar 302 

Emerson, H. P., & Co., manfrs. agts 304 

Emery, J., Jr. ,& Co., wholesale fish 192 

Emery, W. H. & S. L., coal, etc 202 

Eppler cS: .\dams Sewing-machine Co 238 

Essex Boot & Shoe Co., L. F. Keene, propr 236 

Eustis & .\ldrich, genl. commission merchants 228 

Eutebrouk, C. H., importer and gun maker 289 

Everett, E. F. , insurance adjuster 195 

Eyelett Tool Co., G. W. Robbins, agt 177 

Faccini, L., & Co., wines, brandies, etc 214 

Fairbank, N. K., & Co, lard refiners 169 

Family Grocery and Wine Store 27S 

Faneuil Hall National Bank 114 

Farmers' Loan & Trust Co 167 

Farrell, J. R., tailor 2S7 

Favor, E. W., groceries, etc 270 

Faxon, C. A,, genl. agt. Cheshire, Central Vermont & 

Del. & Hudson Canal Co.'s Railroads 25S 

Farley, Harvey, & Co., dry goods in 

Fisher & Fairbanks, rock cordials, etc 1S6 

Fisher, A. P., & Co., brokers in grain, etc 134 

Fisher's Restaurant 128 

Fisk, M., cigars 233 

Fisk's Lunch and Dining Rooms 277 

Fitzpatrick, D. W., tailor 260 

Fitzmeyer, W. J., japanner 282 

Fletcher. J. V., beef, pork, lard, etc 299 

Fliiner, J. H., & Co., general commission merchants. . igo 

Florence Shirt Co., The 244 

Fobes, Hay ward & Co. (incorp.), m.anfrs. confectionery 106 

Fogg, A. T., embroideries, etc 220 

Fogg Bros. & Co., bankers, etc 166 

Foss & Gault, hosiery, etc 276 

Foster, D. W., manfr. horse blankets, etc 270 

Foster, H. H., & Co., coal and wood 254 

Foster, C. , & Son, groceries, etc 1 1 S 

Fowle, Hibbard & Co., produce commission merchants 140 
Fowle, E. M., & Co., shipping and commission mer- 
chants 151 

Fox, A., & Co., manfrs. cloth hats and caps 120 

Frank, D., & Co., cigars 188 

Franklin Rubber Co.. Fuller, Leonard & Small, proprs. 213 

Frazier, L. B., stockbroker 227 

French Bros. , provisions, groceries, etc 1 1 1 

French, C. E., distiller of N. E. rum 1S7 

French, W. C, bedsteads, etc 196 

French, J.. & Sons, real estate, etc 203 

French. F., employment Agency 172 

Frink & Hayes, builders of gas and water works 135 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Furness Line of Steamships 139 

Gatcomb, L. B., & Co., raanfrs. banjos, guitars, etc. .. 183 

Gay & Jeffrey, provisions, etc 267 

Gay, A. R.. & Co., manfrs. account boolcs 140 

Gendron, Miss A. M., photographer 247 

George, I. M., & Co., commission merchants 22S 

Gilman, J. T., apothecary 279 

Gill, J. W., fish, oysters, etc 278 

Gillespie & Hutchinson, dry and fancy goods, etc 258 

Gillette & Hennigan, wholesale apples, oranges, etc.. . 175 

Gillis, F. E.. photographer 268 

Gleason & Kimball, commission merchts. in fruits, etc. 204 

Gleeson, T. \V., & Co., electricians 28 1 

Glen Shirt and Collar Co.; A. B. Rice, manager 232 

Goldberg, H. H., manfr. cigars 267 

Goldsmith, Silver & Co., manfrs. cigars 106 

Goodman, J., & Co., fire insurance. ... 118 

Goodridge, M . E. , stable 260 

Gore, T. W., average adjuster 214 

Gossler & Co., bankers and importers 162 

Gould & Co., wholesale paint 297 

Gould's Hat, Trunk, and Glove Depot 262 

Graham, T. J., & Co., manfrs. trunks, etc 251 

Grant Jott, water filters iii 

Gray, E. E., commission merchant 276 

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. , The 178 

Green, C, & Co., clothing 154 

Green, B. F., & Co., tailors 16S 

Grose, J. R. , manfr. paper boxes 195 

Gustin, H, E., & Co., country produce 292 

Hadley, A. G., stair builder 249 

Haines, F. H., jeweler and optician 283 

Haley's Fashionable Millinery 272 

Hall, G. O., dentist 290 

Hall, J., & Son, carriages, etc 172 

Hall, C. E., & Co., marble 115 

Hall, D. F., meats, provisions, etc 254 

Hall & Cole, commission merchants 221 

Hall, J. M., & Co., house painters 261 

Hallett, F. E., commission merchant 2S4 

Halma, H. P., sailmaker. etc 275 

Hamlin & Martin, furniture, etc 290 

Hammett, J. L., school furniture, etc 179 

Hammond Type Writer Co 141 

Hancock Inspirator Co., The, manfrs. inspirators.... 103 

Hano, Sam'l .Co., manfrs. manifold books 220 

Hanson, M. F., boarding, hack and livery stable 302 

Harrington & Freeman, watches, diamonds, etc 149 

Harrison, Beard & Co., manfrs. furniture, etc 302 

Harrison, E. S., & Co., proprs. Dr. Harrison's Peris- 

talic Lozenges, etc 245 

Harmon, J. W., manfr. spirit levels, etc 256 

Hartnett, E. J., millinery 292 

Haskell, H. A., manfr. Eureka Pipe Bender 128 

Haskins Bros., isinglass, Irish moss, etc 159 

Haskins, W,, & Son, lumber 195 

Hastings, H. C, bookseller, etc 239 

Hatch, L. P.. hats. caps, etc 143 

Hatch, S., & Co.. auctioneers 251 

Hatch, D. B., manfr. paper and wood boxes 256 



Hatch, H., & Co., steel and stencil letter-cutting 259 

Hatchman, J., manfr. moldings and picture-frames.... 263 

Hathaway, Soule & Harrington, manfr. men's shoes . . 131 

Hathevvay & Co., ship and freight brokers 185 

Hawes, G. W., manfr. suspenders, etc 190 

Hawes, J. P., broker in fertilizers 248 

Hawkes & Crawford, plumbers, etc 256 

Hawkes, B. L., stationery, etc 244 

Hayden, Geo. E., costumer 288 

Hayden, A. L. , boots and shoes 266 

Hayes, S. C. & Co., commission merchants 280 

Haynes, A., manfr. white wine and cider vinegar, etc.. 240 

Hazeltine, H., & Co., butter, cheese, and eggs 162 

Heald, A. V. , meats, etc 267 

Hearn, T. H., apothecary. 274 

Heath & Co., apothecaries 216 

Heath, L., & Co., manfg. opticians 184 

Hewes & Mayo, sign and office painters 275 

Hewins & Hollis, outfitters 234 

Higgins, R. R., & Co., wholesale oysters 152 

Highton, W., & Sons, manfrs. of hot-air registers, etc . 21c 

Hills, R., watchmaker 283 

Hilton, H. C, commission merchant 272 

Hilton & Woodward, mutton, lamb, etc 238 

Hinckley Bros., & Co., cordage, chains, etc 184 

Hitchcock & Browne, druggists 255 

Hixon, W. S., & Co., manfrs. soapslone 181 

Hobbs, H. B.. sign painter, etc 281 

Hobday, Thos. W., mechanical draughtsman 244 

Hodges, L. L. , japanner 185 

Hodgdon, W. S.. manfr. tongues, stays, etc 254 

Hodgman Rubber Co., manfrs. India-rubber goods. . . . 131 

Holden, C. W.. insurance igo 

Holden. F., & Co., beef, pork, lard, etc 297 

Holland, Dr. A. J., dentist 266 

Hollis, C. N., commission merchant 196 

Hollis, T., drugs, etc 227 

Holman, J., & Co., bedding and bed lounges, etc 249 

Holmes, E. D., lumber, etc 301 

Holmes, W. A., &. Co.. grocers 221 

Holmes, T. J., specialist in atomizing tubes, etc 261 

Hoi way Bros., & Woodbury, sailmakers 277 

Homer, J. W., real estate 181 

Hood, R. S. , scrap iron, etc 303 

Houghton & Colby, grain and feed 156 

Howard, M. E , &. Co., printers 290 

Howard National Bank of Boston, The 106 

Howe. I. A., manfr. shirts, etc 227 

Howe. O. F., wooden and widow ware 203 

Howe, J. M., real estate, etc 247 

Howes, A. C, hotel and restaurant supplies 269 

Howland, F. H., men's furnishings 282 

Hoyt. G. T.. & Co., sailmakers, etc 273 

Hovt & Tripp, mechanical draughtsmen 291 

Hubbard. J., & Co., manfrs. Hubbard's Deodorizer and 

Germicide 183 

Hubbard. J.. & Co., manfrs. and proprs. Hubbard's 

Deodorizer 193 

Humphrey. B. F.. blank-book manfr 274 

Hunnewell, J. W., & Co., wholesale petroleum 132 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Hutu, Rodney, Machine Co ... 155 

Huston, W. A., druggist 294 

Hutchinson, J. F., & Co., wholesale and commission 

butter, cheese, etc 1 70 

Hyde, E J., insurance, etc 2^6 

Ingalls, Brown & Co., leather 119 

IngersoU Rock Drill Co., Mellen S. Harlow, mgr 213 

International Trust Co 123 

Irving. K., flour mill products iiS 

Isburgh & Co., carriage dealers 252 

Jacobs, S., & Bros., manfrs. cigars 272 

]eaneret. A. E., watchmaker and manfr. of Diamond 

Luster.. 145 

Jeliison, J. M., & Co., Boston and Maine Drug Co. ... 227 

Jeselsohn, L., tobacconist 2S1 

lewell & Co.. bankers and brokers 145 

Jewett, F. P., coffee broker 24S 

Johnson, J. P., produce and provisions 267 

Johnson. B., mutton, lamb, etc 231 

Johnson, F. H., & Co., fish 230 

Jones, M. D., & Co., manfrs. ornamental iron work.. 212 

Jones, J. F., & Co., oils, etc 245 

Jordan, Lovett & Co., insurance 151 

Judge, R., tailor.... 17S 

Kansas Investment Co loS 

Keenan, M. H., printer 272 

Keenan, J., wool and wool stock 272 

Keenan, M. T. J., glass cutter 255 

Keene, C. S., agt. Buchanan and Lyall's tobaccos 130 

Kelley, S. D., architect 243 

Kellogg, H., Jr., note broker 262 

Kelly, T., & Co , birds, etc 271 

Kendall, G. A., feathers, etc iSi 

Kenney, A, E. , furniture, etc 255 

Kent, John; agt., A. French Spring Co., Limited, and 

Carnegie Phipps & Co., Limited 106 

Kent, J. L., & Co., commission brokers 157 

Kerr, W., & Son, watches, etc 257 

Keys, D. W., & Co., produce commission merchants. . 2S3 

Kilborn, Whitman, &Co. , manfrs. furniture 300 

Kimball, Chas., photographer 264 

Kimball Bros., beef, pork, lard, etc 225 

Kimball, L. L. , & Co., wholesale fruit and produce.... log 
Kimball's Fine Confectionery, R. H. Kimball, propr. .. 223 

Knapp. J. M., machine and tool forging 2S7 

KnoAvle-K & Co., grain shippers . . 215 

Koeller, F.. cutter 291 

Koschwitz & Co., lithographic engravers and printers.. 266 

Ladd, N. M., boots, shoes, etc 263 

Laforme and Frothingham, commission merchants. .. . 127 

Lalley. C. H., wholesale bottles 273 

Lamb, B. F., & Co., lumber 161 

Lamkin, G., & Co., manfrs. boots and shoes 305 

Lane, E. A., painter, etc 268 

Lane & Small, machinists 300 

Lapworth, J., carving, etc 279 

Laycock, R., tailor 299 

Law. G. H., musical instruments 265 

Lawrence & Robinson, real estate 240 

Lawrence, H. L., & Co., poultry, etc 211 



Lawson, W. S., & Co., bankers and brokers 195 

Learnard & Bird Oil Co., The 230 

Learnard, S. S., beef, pork, lard, etc ... 204 

Leavitt, A., manfr. church organ keys 19S 

Leavitt, M. L. H., Ph.G., pharmacist 251 

Leighton, R. B., insurance, etc 200 

Leland, A.M., music goods ... 294 

Leman. F. N., sign painter 231 

Lennon & Co., brass founders and finishers, etc 156 

Lent & Braham, tailors' trimmings 296 

Levy, D., manfr. clothing 170 

Levy, B., & Co., French perfumers 193 

Levy, B., & Co., French perfumers 193 

Lewando's French Dyeing and Cleansing Establishment 

and Laundry, W. L. Crosby, mgr 194 

Lewis, D. \V., sewer and drain pipes, etc 14S 

Lewis, B., stationery, etc 240 

Lewis' Wharf Tow-boats. N. P. Doane, agt 274 

Libbie, C. F., Jr., printer 280 

Lincoln, W., & Son, insurance 196 

Lincoln, F. H., real estate, etc 175 

Lindall's Band, Lindall, C. E., mgr 263 

Litchfield. H. C, & Co., manfrs. of fishing tackle, etc. 153 

Littlefield, W. H., & Co., apothecaries 262 

Littlefield, G. E., old books, etc 190 

Livermore. A. H., dentist 27S 

Lloyd. G. H., manfg. optician 118 

Locke, H . . beef 236 

Lockett. W., & Co., merchandise brokers 295 

Lockhart, W. L., manfrs. coffins, etc 138 

Logan, S. B., auctioneer, etc 303 

Lombard, H. S., clothing, etc 278 

Lombard, N. C, mechanical engineer, etc 203 

Loring & Clark, insurance 237 

Lougee, G. F., & Co., cotton brokers and buyers 127 

Lovell, A. J., grocer 2S6 

Low, O., real estate, etc 206 

Lowe, W. W., real estate, etc 146 

Lowell, R. M., plumber 294 

Lundahl, E. W., photographic printer 284 

Lydon, P. W., music plate printer 258 

Lyman & White, stationers and printers 144 

Macdonnell, Mrs. S. A., gloves 223 

Macullar, Parker & Co., clothing lor 

Manning, W. E. & Co., real estate, etc no 

Manning & Bro., oils, etc 156 

Mariner & Williams, shipping agts 294 

Market National Bank no 

Marshall, H., & Co. , printers. 253 

Marshall, J. E., manfr. Saratoga potato chips 194 

Marston, J. W., & Co., wholesale lobsters 271 

Martin, W. H., window tickets, show cards, etc 2go 

Martin, A. P., & Co., manfrs. boots and shoes 139 

Mason & Co. . coin dealers i Sg 

Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Co 114 

Massachusetts Loan and Trust Co., The 146 

Massachusetts Real Estate Co. , Geo. Leonard, genl. agt. 147 

Mattson, J., & Co., real estate and insurance 243 

Mazeppa Sign Co. , F. F. Applequist, mgr i S5 

McAdams, W. M. L., stationer, etc. .... 24? 



GENERAL INDEX. 



McArthur, A., & Co., furniture and carpets 142 

McCarthy, J. H., mutton, lamb, etc 292 

McCarthy, C. F., manfg. jeweler 191 

McCarthy. N. F., & Co., flowers, etc 234 

McClean, A., & Co., lumber, etc 294 

McCleery, A, L., sawing, planing, and moulding 214 

McCoster, T., photographer 304 

McDonald, A., manfr. trunks, bags, etc 250 

VU Ehvin, D., manfr. show cases, etc 287 

.McFarland. F. J., grocer 283 

McFarlin, G. R., china, glass, etc 234 

McGraih, J., real estate, etc 204 

McGreenery Bros., cigars, etc 240 

Mrlntyre, P., & Co., wholesale grocers 1S8 

McKay, H. S., architect 171 

McKenney. C. H., & Co. , manfrs. gas fixtures 149 

McKey, J. W., crockery, china, etc ... 257 

McLean, Ella C, artist 279 

McMahon, T., cigars, etc 263 

McPherson Bros., commission merchants 203 

Measures. J., brass foundery 2S6 

Mckclburg & Cobe, manfrs. cigar 199 

Melledge. R. J. , mortgages 243 

Mercantile Fire & Marine Insurance Co 140 

Merchandise National Bank ... 136 

Merchants' National Bank of Boston, The 171 

Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Co 174 

Messer, G. E., &. Co., black walnut and amber work. . 201 

Metropolis Land Company of Boston 124 

Metropolitan Steamship Co 132 

Miller & Son. manfg. confectioners 305 

Miller, The. Boot and Shoe Trees, O. A. Miller, propr. 204 

Miller, E. W., manfr. Miller's Reform Boot 235 

Miller. R., & Co., manfrs. sails, etc 280 

Mills & Gibb, lace curtains, etc 225 

Mills. Miss V. A., corsets and panniers 263 

Missouri Pacific Railway Co., The 154 

Mitchell, A. R., & Co., cigars and tobacco 235 

Mitchell. A. S., auctioneer, etc 181 

More, C. H., & Co., granites 170 

Morrill, F. W., & Co., butter, cheese, etc 254 

Morrill, J. Jr., & Co., manfrs. soap and candles 15S 

Morrison, E. L, & Co., commission merchants 222 

Morse, H. & A., & Co., coal.. 300 

Morse, E., manfr. billiard tables 202 

Morse, R., wines, liquors, etc 242 

Moulton, B. S., & Co., art gallery, etc 176 

Muc;ridge, C. R., carpenter 2S6 

Munch, C. R.. Jr., hat tip printer 276 

Munch. H. W., manfr. ribbon badges for societies, etc. 257 

Murphy, M. J., undertaker 271 

Murphv, W. T., watchmaker, etc 191 

Murray. R. p., provisions 266 

Myers Bros. & Co., tobacco manfrs 194 

Nardi. J., & Co., manfrs. Moorish and Nubian figures. 249 

Nash, M. E., furnaces, stoves, etc 265 

National Supply Co., J. Brodie, mgr 193 

National Supply Co.. clothing, dry goods, etc 193 

National Mortgage & Debenture Co 116 

National Bank of the Commonwealth 155 



National Plating Co 292 

Naylor, R. F. , real estate, etc 202 

Ness County Bank, Ness City, Kansas, A. E. Alvord, 

Eastern mgr 132 

Newell, J. S., & Co., mechanical engineers, etc 289 

Newhall, F. C, wood easels, fire screens, etc 238 

Newhall & English, costumers 262 

Newhall, J. Q., pattern maker 211 

New England Weston Electric Light Co., The 123 

New England House, J. T. Wilson, prop 113 

New England Furniture E.xchange 2S5 

New England Supply Co., clothing, dry goods, etc 278 

New England Steam Cooperage Co., manfrs. tanks, 

casks, etc ; 1 39 

New England Grip Co 224 

New England Lobster Co., G. L. Young, mgr 190 

New England & Savannah Steamship Co 170 

Newman, J., & Sons, floral artists 220 

Niagara Fire Insurance Co., Henry B. Turner, genl agt. 205 

Nichols & Fish, manfrs. cigar boxes, etc 282 

Nichols, L. E., watches and clocks 275 

Nichols, O., & Co., manfrs. Resilene Heeling 246 

Nickerson, W. E., patentee of Nickerson's Hydraulic 

Elevator Safety 22g 

Nickerson & Glidden, commission merchants 296 

Nims, O. F.. apothecary 268 

Norris & Corthell, insurance, etc 187 

Norris Piano & Diamond Co 112 

North, C. H., & Co., packers and curers of pork, etc. . 185 

Northern Assurance Co., of London 155 

Nowell, C, real estate, etc 204 

Noyes, E. W., printer 269 

Noyes, B., mortgages 236 

Ober, C. S., & Co., manfrs. table sauce 108 

Oberle, F. X., manfr. cigars 260 

O'Brion, T. L. , insurance , 200 

O'Callaghan, T.. & Co., carpetings, etc 128 

Ocean Steamship Berth Co , no 

O'Hara, F. J., & Co., wholesale fish, etc 177 

Old Boston National Bank 154 

Old Colony Grocery, Wm. C. Cooledge, propr 304 

Oliver, D. M., & Co., pork, lard, hams, etc 216 

Oriental Coffee House Co 217 

Orne, C, W^, butchers' scales, saws, etc . 247 

Osgood, J. H. , & Co., printers' rollers 218 

Otis, G. D., & Co., bonded truckman, etc 151 

Page, M. S., & Co., merchandise and money brokers.. 205 

Paine, A. W., tailor 246 

Palmer, Parker & Co., mahogany and veneers 222 

Park House, W. D. Park & Son, proprs 129 

Parker, F. M., provisions, etc 267 

Parker, G. S., real estate, etc 2co 

Parkinson & Burr, bankers and brokers 239 

Patten & Stratton, photographers 300 

Patterson, R. A., & Co., tobacco manfrs 156 

Patterson & Lavender, manfrs. show cases, etc 179 

Paul, W, F., paper stock 247 

Pazolt, T. C, &Son, furs 224 

Pease, C. F., bindings for carpets, etc 296 

Peck Bros., printers, etc 126 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Pelonsky, M., dry and fancy goods, etc 287 

Peninsular Novelty Co., The. manfrs. button attaching 

machines and fastners 297 

Percival, J. P. T., pharmacist .... 133 

Peretii, L., cigars 242 

Perlcins, A. D., mutton, lamb, etc 221 

Perkins, C. L , manfr. candies, etc 162 

Perry, J. P., & Co., plumbers, etc 259 

Perry, W. A., real estate, etc 297 

Pettee Machine Works, manfrs. cotton mill machinery 22S 

Phelps, F. S, insurance iiS 

Phenix Hotel, I. M. Southuick, propr 268 

Phillips, W. P., manfr. lubricators, etc 177 

Pickens, L. W. , planing mill 249 

Pinkhani, H. W., provisions, etc 2S6 

Pinopalmine Co., George C. Stewart, mgr 104 

Plumer & Co., commission merchants in flour, etc. . . . 151 

Pollock, C, photographs 230 

Pond, G. L., & Co., real estate brokers 239 

Porter, J. W., insurance 126 

Porter, W., & Co., fire insurance 165 

Porter, A., optician 175 

Post, J., Jr., & Co., mechanical engineers 115 

Potter, C. D., commission merchant, etc 142 

Power, J. E.. designer and engraver 269 

Power, T. C, employment agency 244 

Power, J., manfr. corks 293 

Powers, C, musical goods, etc 264 

Pratt, I. L., & Co., metals 303 

Pray, B. S., commission merchant 210 

Pray & Tillson, diamond cutters 299 

Preston. G., commission merchant 303 

Prior, W. H., mutton, lamb, veal, etc 21S 

Pullen, O. C, market 267 

Quimby, M. T., & Co., manfg. jewelers, etc 164 

Quincy, The, G. G. Mann, propr 117 

Quincy Club Stable, H. W. Miller, manager 2iS 

Rand, C. F., auctioneer, etc 197 & 306 

Raymond, G. P., costume parlors 242 

Read, Hawkins & Co., flour and produce 192 

Read Furniture Co., The Geo. E , 140 

Read W. , & Sons, guns, sporting goods, etc 296 

Reardan, J., & Co., engraved and painted signs 272 

Reardon. M.. manfr. horse collars 303 

Redding Electrical Co., manfrs. electrical supplies. . . . 130 

Reed & Bro. , fire insurance 226 

Reed, W. G., fire insurance 146 

Revere House, J. F. Merrow & Co., proprs 105 

Reversible Collar Co., manfrs. collars and cuffs 188 

Reynolds. A. N., & Co., manfrs. oils. 116 

Rice, J. S., & Co., manfrs. tin cans, etc 264 

Rice & Hohvay, commission merchants 148 

Richards Si Co., tin plates, etc 211 

Rink, J. J., blacksmith, etc 250 

Ritchie & Brown, auctioneers 15S 

Ritz, E. F.. photographic artist 182 

Roach. G. F.. & Co., furniture, etc 216 

Roberts, J. N., collateral banking rooms 1S2 

Robbins, N.. poultry and wild game 241 

Robinson, W, F., & Co., wholesale beef, pork, etc. . . 157 



Robinson, C. F., produce commission merchant 265 

Roby, W. G., & Co., metal dealers 112 

Rockwell. G. C, & Son, produce commission merchants 261 

Rock wood, E. E. , apothecary 259 

Rodonachi, J. M., Smyrna and Mediterranean products 304 

Rogers, L. A., & Co., commission merchants 209 

Rollins, L. B., & Co., commission merchants 274 

Rowe, R., insurance, etc 142 

Rovve, A. A., & Son, forwarding agts. and truckmen. . 2S8 

Ruggles & Buss, commission merchants 250 

Russell, B, B., publisher 283 

Russell Counter Co., manfr. waterproof moulded stif- 

fenings 133 

Russell, J. M,, publisher of sheet music 248 

Russell, C, & Co., wholesale ice 192 

Russell, D., steam and gas pipe, etc 298 

Rydingsvard, K. A., wood carver 139 

Sages Trunk Depot, O. F. Sage, propr 295 

Samuels, E. A., publisher 1 1 1 

Sanborn, C. B., & Co., produce commission merchants. 258 
Sanderson & Son. genl. agts. Wilson Line of Steamers. 225 

Sargent, F., & Co., manfrs. carriages, etc 191 

Sargent, E. P., Jr., & Co., manfg. stationers, etc 200 

Savory, T. C, banner painter 222 

Sawyer, G. A., mutton, lamb, veal, etc 131 

Sawyer, N., & Son, printers 161 

Sawyer, E., civil and mechanical engineer 166 

Scanlon & Dillon, fruit, vegetables, etc 170 

Schaefer, W. R. & Son, sporting goods, etc 236 

Schloss, N., wholesale cigars and tobacco 225 

Schmidt, S., manfr. jewelery, etc 246 

Schwarz, R., toys 258 

Scribner, H. M. & Co. , photographers, etc 279 

Schofield, W. J., printer 247 

Scott, Jesse, confectionery 276 

Scull & Bradley, fire and marine insurance 103 

Sears People's Drug Store, G. T. Sears, propr 166 

Sears, J. H. & Co., shipping commission merchants... 161 

Seaverns, H., hair felt, etc 226 

Security Investment Co 235 

Sewell & Day Cordage Co 216 

Sewing Machine Supplies Co., The 245 

Sexauer. W. L., manfr. cigars 263 

Sharp, S. T., foreign exchange and insurance 247 

Shattuck & Jones, fish, etc 228 

Shaw, E. A., cotton buyer 237 

Shedd & Crane, leather 222 

Sheehan, D. C, fruits and produce 256 

Shepard & Morse Lumber Co 144 

Sherman, C. J. F., & Son, watches, clocks, etc 271 

Sherman, J. W. , stationery, toys, etc 2S8 

Shurtleff Bros., commission merchants 281 

Siebert, H., leather and findings 267 

Silsby, B. F., confectioner 291 

Simonds. C. H., & Co., printers 264 

Simmons, Arasden & Co., fruit and vegetables 218 

Simpson Bros. , asphalt floors, etc 180 

Singleton, T.. & Son. manfrs. glassware 269 

Siskind. L., & Co., 5 and 10 cent goods 278 

Skillings, Whitneys & Barnes Lumber Co 150 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Slade, L., butter, cheese, etc 289 

Slayion & Boynton, commission merchants 264 

Smith, J., & Son, fish, etc 26S 

Smith, E. F., photographer 256 

Smith, T. E., cigars, etc 256 

Smith, T. J., tea broker 145 

Smith & Blanchard, wholesale lumber 131 

Smith, W. E., fruits, etc 206 

Smith, Wm. A., diainonds 250 

Smith, H. W., watchmaker 115 

Smith, L. B., & Co., manfrs. machine screws, etc isg 

Smith, F. A., & Co., commission and wholesale paper. 164 

Smith, J., & Co., manfrs. harness, etc 173 

Smith, Geo. W., insurance 2S9 

Snow, P., ladies' and gents' furnishings 271 

Snow, J. P., railroad lands 153 

Snow & Higgins, groceries 171 

Snow, T. G., manfr. Commonwealth Solid Cream, etc. 2SS 
Soule, Dillingham & Co , pavers and street railway 

contractors 230 

Sowden, C, signs and show-cards 2S4 

Spalding, Elms & Co., tailors' trimmings 231 

Spencer, S. M., stencil and stamp works 1S7 

Sprague Mrs. H., dry and fancy goods 251 

Spring Lane Furnishing Co., gents' furnishing goods. . loi 

Stahl, H., manfr. cigars 2S6 

Standard Cordage Co., manfrs. cordage and binders' 

twine 103 

Stanwood, F., cotton buyer 273 

Slarratt, D. W., & Co., tailors 223 

Stearns, W., & Co., wholesale grocers 283 

Stedman & Kellogg, bankers and brokers 166 

Stetson, A. M., & Co., coal, wood, etc 143 

Stevens, CD., millinery 252 

Stevens, E. F., photographer 137 

Stewart, Miss M. B., typewriter, etc 254 

Stewart, H., manfr. carriages, etc 25S 

Stillings, E. B., & Co., stationers and printers 109 

Stockwell, F. F., engraver 2S4 

Stone. C. D., & Co., grocers 186 

Story & Stevens, wholesale fish 1 76 

Story, O. L., scenic artist igS 

Stratton, G. F., mouldings 248 

Strecker, L., & Co., manfrs. pants, etc 299 

Stiibbs, J. A., wholesale oysters, etc 164 

Sturtevant Mill Co., manfrs. mills for crushingores, etc. 121 

Suffolk National Bank of Boston, The. ... 130 

Sullivan Consolidated Gold Mining Co ... 124 

Sumner, F. H., & Co., bankers and brokers iSS 

Swain, Earle & Co., teas and coffees 163 

Swift, T. S., horse-shoer 26S 

Sylvester, W. A., mechanical draughtsman 270 

Tamarack Mining Co 174 

Tarbox & Clarke, flour, etc 249 

Taylor, H. VV., real estate, etc 222 

Taylor, Dr. E. S., demist 212 

The Quincy, G. G. Mann, propr 117 

Thomas, F., manfr. candies 282 

Thompson, A. T., & Co., manfrs. stereoptlcons, etc.. 137 
Thompson, E. W., N. E. Pass. Agt. C, R. I. & P. Ry. 291 



Thorndike Bros., beef, mutton, etc 291 

Tighe & Burke, grocers 223 

Tilton, S., & Co., tobacco 162 

Tinkham, J., undertaker 260 

Todd, Thomas, printer 123 

Todd, F. W., & Co., real estate, etc 210 

Tower, H. C, commission merchant 247 

Townsend, T. W. , real estate;, etc 264 

Toy, D., tailor 304 

Tracey. photographer 186 

Tregurtha, J., machinist 271 

Trickey, F. P., boarding, baiting, and sale stable 165 

Triggs, F. J. , representing Arthur & Bonnell, lithog- 
raphers 298 

Troeder, A., Eliot Loan Co 251 

Try on, S. C, beef, pork, lard, etc 2ig 

Tucker, J. A., & Co., pho.^phate 112 

Turnbull, W., & Co., dry-goods commission merchants 217 

Turnbull, G. L. , clothing, etc 230 

Turner & Kaupp, silver platers, etc 218 

Turner, R. W., real estate, etc 207 

Turton, T., & Sons (Limited), manfrs. spring steel, etc. 209 

Tuttle, A. & J. E. . mechanical draughtsmen 273 

Tuttle, C. F., real estate 263 - 

Tuttle, J. W., & Sons, wholesale commission merchants 178 

Twitchell, C. A., & Co., engravers 270 

Tyler, G., & Co., agricultural machinery 140 

Union Debenture Co 109 

Union Investment Co., W. M. Mick, mgr 128 

Union Steam Sponging Works, M. Crohn, propr 300 

Valentine, L., ladies' tailor 258 

Van Dalinda, W. H., manfr. barbers' supplies 292 

Van Derveer & Holmes Biscuit Co 209 

Varney, N. R., watchmaker 2S4 

Ver Planck, E. D. . sugar, hemp, etc 144 

Vinton & Jenkins, manfrs. boots and shoes 261 

Virginia. Tennessee & Georgia Air Line 260 

Vorenberg, S., & Co., clothing . . 199 

Wainwright, H. C, & Co., stock brokers 207 

Wait & Cutter, architects 205 

Wakefield, E. H., real estate, etc 171 

Walker, G. A., Machine Co 1S3 

Walker, H. E., & Co., manfrs. stoves, ranges, etc.... 233 

Walker & Pratt Manfg. Co - 215 

Walker, S., & Co., oils, naphtha fluid, etc 246 

Wall, J. E., manfr. bamboo furniture, etc 239 

Ward, C. M., & Co., manfg, jewelers 294 

Ware, Geo. H., printer 274 

Ware, G. A., barbers' supplies 302 

Warner & Jarvis, salt 196 

Warner, R., & Co., manfrs. wooden ware, etc 171 

Warren, M. C, & Co., hardware 104 

Warren's Military Band & Orchestra 264 

Washburn, L, insurance, etc 199 

Wasserboehr, J. E., & Son, manfrs. cigars 290 

Waterhouse, W. A., lumber 208 

Waters & Litchfield, beef, pork, lard, etc 224 

Walts & Willis, commission merchants 243 

Waverly Manfg. Co., confectioners' specialties 163 

Webb, J. H., engraver 261 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Weber, F. E., confectioner and caterer 194 

Webster, H. P., tea and coffee 191 

Weiss, Max, clothing 291 

Wells Manufacturing Co., manfrs. brass and wire goods 240 

Wemyss Concert Co. of Boston, Alex. J. Wemyss, mgr. 134 

West, W., & Co., manfg. confectioners 2gS 

Weston Lumber Co 211 

Wetmore & Story, tailors 279 

Wheatland, P. D., stock broker 1 87 

Wheeler, G. H., real estate, etc 258 

Wheelock, C. W., & Co., oil stoves, etc 142 

Wheildon, L. B., & Co., real estate brokers 215 

Whidden, Curtin & Co., furniture, etc 235 

White & Johnson, provision, etc 292 

White, W. H., Jr., & Co., boots and shoes 287 

White, C. H., & Co., manfrs. hot air furnaces, etc. . . . 143 

White, C. E., cigars, etc 278 

White's, T., Sons, truckman and forwarders 226 

Whiiaker. N. C, & Co. , tortoise shell and horn goods. . 276 

Whitaker Bros., ecclesiastical decorative painters 161 

Whiunore, C. E., & Co., brokers 132 

Whitney, J. E.. East India goods 149 

Whiton Bro. & Co., agls. for the W'oodbury Cotton 

Duck Mills 176 

Whiton & Knight, printers 295 

Whiiten, Biirdett & Young, clothing 107 

Whittington, H., & Co., horse clothing 113 

Wilson, B. O. & G. C, wholesale druggists 2S3 

Wilson, Cassells & Co., New England representatives 

of Hall's Safe & Lock Co 241 

Wilson, E. M., D.D.S., dentist 302 

Wilcox, Geo. B., printer 2ig 



Willard, J. H. , picture framer 270 

Winegar, M. B. & Co.. stationery, etc 305 

Winn, Ricker & Co., commission merchants, etc 206 

Winship, W. W., manfr. trunks, bags, etc 257 

Winslow Furniture Co., S. Winslow, mgr 29S 

Winslow, Geo. S., & Co., provisions, poultry, etc 259 

Wise, Harris & Co., manfrs. cigars 160 

Wolff, A., watchmaker, etc 267 

Wood, Kilbourne & Co., pianos 254 

Wood L., Jr., manfr. cabinet work, etc 293 

Wood Bros., paints, oils, etc 301 

Woodbridge, S. F., & Co., wholesale beef, pork. etc... 206 

Woodbury, Shaw & Co., wholesale'oysters, etc 152 

Woodcock, S. S., architect and landscape gardener. . . . 160 

Woodman, J. H.. manfr. boots and shoes 282 

Woodward, S. T., lumber 274 

Woodward, W. E., architect 201 

Woodward, H. E. , & Co., wholesale salt and pickled fish 173 

Woolson, H. H., tailor 2S5 

Wright Bros. & Co., manfrs. umbrellas, etc 2S1 

Wright, C, & Co., lard refiners 207 

Yale, R. IL, & Co., sail makers 285 

Yarrington, P., & Co., agents Automatic Water Gas Co 138 

Ybarra, General A., coffee and cocoa importer 147 

Yenetchi, G. V., wholesale wines and liquors 117 

Yeretsky A., tailor 254 

Young A., & Co., building materials, etc 149 

Young, J. A., wholesale lobsters 288 

Young's Hotel, J. Reed Whipple, propr 120 

Ziegler, J. J., &. Co., real estate, etc 262 

Zohrlaul H., Leather Co., Leavitt & Libbey, mgrs. . . . 214 




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[(Xy^Ci^yife, from whatever point of the compass approached, — 
whetlicr by any of the eiglit railway lines which radiate from it 
as a centre ; or by the numerous broad, well-kept highways that cleave 
the fragrant gardens and verdant pastures of its vicinage on the land 
sides ; or by the ocean, whose shimmering waves dash and spend their 
force against the numerous wooden wharves which skirt the shore, — 
presents one object — a golden one, flashing in the rays of the hot 
summer sun, or dully glimmering under the fleecy winter sky — that arrests the attention of the traveller. It 
is a gilded dome, towering above all the thousands of buildings that cluster around it. It is the pivot of 
industrial, cultured, and fashionable Boston : in the characteristic language of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
it is " the hub of the solar system," — whence Boston's sobriquet, " The Hub." While from every side of 
the city this gold-leaf-covered cupola is seen to stand out prominently like a tall monarch overlooking 
ambitious minions compactly crowded on gentle slopes, its interior, which is open to visitors at certain 
seasons of the year, commands a view of unsurpassed grandeur. It is a vantage-ground from which the 








34 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

eye can encompass the outlay and form of the city ; the deep blue sea, dotted with innumerable islands 
and sailing craft of every kind, and stretching out to the level eastern horizon, whence the sea meets 
the sky; the picturesque Blue Hills of Milton and the rocky heights of Essex; the scores of white 
villages, towns, and hamlets, strewn, as it were, at random, and interlineated with tortuous rivers, like so 
many silvery belts ; and the dark, wide-spreading forests which form the background of a beautiful land- 
scape stretching to the westward sky line. 

This " hub of the solar system " is the dome of Massachusetts' capitol, which stands on Boston's highest 
ground, the breezy crest of Beacon Hill, whereon for more than fourscore 3'ears "the wise men and foolish, 
noble men and petty," constituted by the suffrages of the people "The Great and General Court," have man- 
aged and mismanaged the public affairs of the State, and influenced more or less the greater and more im- 
portant national councils. 

BEACON HILL 

and its immediate surroundings are rich in historic associations. Historians tell of a time when there was 
only one solitary log hut nestling on the breast of this far-famed hill, and of this being the only habita. 
tion on the whole of Boston's domain. It was the abode of an eccentric gospel minister, the Rev. William 
Blackstone, who, after fleeing from the haunts of men in old England, sought seclusion here. He it was wlio 
first purchased from the Indians the entire peninsula on which Boston now stands. At this time there were 
three hills on the peninsula, and these had given to them the name of Trcamount, while the whole peninsula 
was designated Trimountaine, instead of Mushauwomuk, as called by the Indians, and since abbreviated to 
Shawmut. Mushauwomuk is variously assumed to have signified in the Indian tongue "living fountains," 
"free land," and "land unclaimed." These hills came to be separately known as Beacon, Copn's, and Fort 
Hills. Beacon Hill, however, had three peaks, and some writers claim that the name Trcamount v.as derived 
from this fact. In 16.3.3, Wood, the voyager, wrote of Beacon Hill as "three little hills on top of a high moun- 
tain." Blackstone's hut was situated near Pinckney and West Cedar Streets. East of the hut was the clergy- 
man's garden ; and a spring, from which he drew his water supply, and which proved to be the earliest in- 
ducement to the founders of New England's metrojiolis to come and settle lierc, was not far from the cetitre of 
the grass plat in the present enclosure of Louisburg Square. 

A number of people from Dorchester, England, had in 1628 purchased the territory now known as the 
Massachusetts Bay State Colony. They were one of two parties of dissenters — Puritans and Separatists — from 
the Episcopal Church of England, and the laws of Britain made it a crime to worship God in any other form 
than that prescribed by this church, by law established. The religious dissenters, who came to the old Bay 
State for conscience' sake, were Puritans, who lamented the evils in the church, and hoped to reform it from 
within. The pilgrims who settled in the neighboring colony of Plymouth, about thirty miles from Boston, in 
1620, were Separatists, who, believing Episcopal ianism utterly corrupt, came off from it. The Puritans were 
a strait-laced sect, and came to the new colony accompanied by John Winthrop as, their Governor, and by 
Thomas Dudley as lieutenant-governor. The colonists settled at Charlestown, which for a long time was a 
distinct municipality, but is now a part of the city of Boston. Experiencing at Charlestown a lack of whole- 
some water, a number of the colonists crossed the stream in a boat to Blackstone's peninsula to search for 
some. Hero they found it in abundance, and this discovery led to overtures between Blackstone and the 
colonists. The negotiations resulted in Blackstone and many of the Puritans becoming close neighbors 
Winthrop had at this time built himself a house at Charlestown, and there the headquarters of the colonists was 
located. Though a few houses rapidly grouped around that of Blackstone's, no thought had yet been enter- 
tained of establishing here a city which should one day be the most noted one in the Republic, and which 
should play an important part in the creation of the great United States. It is true the governor and his 
lieutenant had decided upon looking up a tract of country more suited for the seat of government than Charles- 
town was believed to be ; but Boston had not been considered — if indeed any place had been thought of — as 
eligible for the distinction. Accordingly, one day in 1630 the governor and his lieutenant mounted their 
horses and started out to explore the plains and swamps and forests lying to the westward, and find a suitable 
site for a capital. The spot they finally picked out, with the help of some assistant magnates, lay about three 
miles west of Charlestown, on the banks of the tortuous little river since sung of by poets, and already named 



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the Charles by Captain John Smith, who never saw it. The location seemed to Winthrop " a fit place for a 
beautiful town ;" and accordingly, on the 29th of December, a goodly number of persons bound themselves 
with Governor Winthrop to build houses there in the following spring. The village they named Newtown, 
and this has since developed into the present Cambridge. The town was laid out regularly in squares, and 
early in 1631 houses began to arise. Governor Winthrop set up the frame of his dwelling on the very spot 
where he had first pitched his tent. But the people who had gone over from Charlestown to Boston had been 
promised by Winthrop that he would never move away anywhere unless they accompanied him, and of this 




Soollay Square 

promise they now reminded him in pretty strenuous terms. Bound by two solemn agreements, and under 
the necessity of brenking one of them, Winthrop found himself in a " fix ;" but his conscience yielded to the 
promise he had first made. So, in the fall of 1631, he disappointed his Newtown friends by taking down the 
frame of his unfinished dwelling and by setting it up in Boston, near Beacon Hill. Dudley had completed his 
house and installed his family into it; and ho and the rest of the Newtown colonists refused to accompany 
Winthrop. This led to an open quarrel between Winthrop and Dudley, and a coolness existed between them 
for years. Winthrop's excuse for quitting Newtown was somewhat strengthened in his own mind by the fact 
that Chickatabut, the chief of the neighboring Indians, had promised to be friendly, so that tlie necessity of 
having a fortified settlement in the colony, three miles west, was somewhat less urgent. The commercial 
prospects of Boston, too, had begun to look brighter than those of Newtown. M.iking the best of their oppor- 
tunities, the remaining settlers at Newtown proved thrifty and prosperous, and in 1632 received accessions to 
their number from Braintree, England. The quarrel between Winthrop and Dudley continuing, the minis- 



36 



ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



ters justified the lientenant-governor by ordering Wintlirop to get a clergyman for Newtown, failing in which 
he should pay Dudley £20. This sum Wintlirop liad to render, but the pacified Dudley was magnanimous 
in his triumph, and returned it with a polite note, in which he courteously intimated that he would rather lose 
£100 than Winthrop's friendship. Their difficuitiss settled, the two magnates lived on friendly terms there- 
after, and 




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Post Office. 



BOSTON BECAME THE COLONIAL CAPITAL. 

Of the new State no one could become a citizen unless he was a member of the Puritan Church. Under 
stern, theocratic discipline, the town and colony grew steadily and surely, and sanguinary edicts were issued 

against the Baptists, Episcopalians, and 
Quakers who came to reside here. Rigid 
sumptuary laws were enforced. A high 
official was reprimanded by the governor for 
indulging in the luxury of a wainscot in his 
house ; a clergyman was reproved for the 
vanity of painting his house on the outside. 
Fast riding, ball-playing in the streets, ab- 
sence from church, speaking disrespectfully 
of the clergy, using tobacco publicly, charg- 
ing high prices, denying the Scriptures, a 
man kissing his wife on the street or on a 
Sunday, and sheltering Quakers or Baptists, 
were all crimes in the sight of the law- 
makers. Watchmen patrolled the streets 
by night, and walked " two by two to- 
gether, a youth joined with an elder and 
more sober person." Their instructions 
set forth: "If after ten o'clock they see lights, to inquire if there be warrantable cause; and if they 
hear any noise or disorder, wisely to demand the reason. If they find young men and maidens, not of 
known fidelity, walking after ten o'clock, wisely to demand the cause ; and if they appear ill minded, to watch 
them narrowlv, command tlieni to go to their lodgings, and if they refuse, then to secure them till morning." 
The people were warned by the ringing of public bells when to go to bed, when to rise in the morning, and 
when to eat and drink. The ringing of the Boston town bells, at nine o'clock in the evening, was instituted 
in 1649, and was doubtless originated from the curfew, a custom introduced in England before the Norman 
conquest to command the people to put out their fires. The ringing of the nine o'clock bell remained a custom 
in the city within living memory, and the practice is still kept up in some New England villages. Josselyn, 
describino- the town as it was between 1660 and 1670, says: "On the south there is a small but pleasant 
common, where the Gallants a little before sunset walk with their marmalet madams, as we do in Moorfields, 
etc., until the nine o'clock bell rings them home to tlieir respective habitations, when presently the Constables 
walk their rounds to see good order is kept, and to take up loose people." The " morning bell," in those 
days of early rising was rung "half an hour after four." In 1664 an "eleven o'clock bell" was ordered "for 
tlie more convenient and expeditious dispatch of merchants' affairs." In course of time this bell became the 
recoonized signal for the worthy tradesmen to adjourn from their places of business to the nearest tavern, 
there to take a "nip" of rum, Holland or Cognac (whiskey was not a beverage in those times). This ringing 
of the town bells at 11 o'clock continued until 1835, when the hour was changed to 1 p.m., or, as it was said, 
" from the hour of drinking to the hour of dining." ^'arious bills in the city clerk's files, however, show that 
different hours were chosen in the different neighborhoods. In 1718, £3 were voted "to pay a Bell Ringer at 
the New South Meeting House for a year," he to officiate at five in. the morning and nine at night, "as other 
Bell Ringers did." 

The religious bigotry and civic intolerence on the part of his neighbors proved too much for minister 
Blackstone, the proprietor of the peninsula, for, said he, " I came from England because I did not like the 



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Lord Bishops, but I cannot join witli you, iiecause I would not be undei' tlic Lord's Brethren." Accordingly, 
about four years after the removal of the colonists to the peninsula, and being ill at ease among them, he agreed 
to sell to them the whole of the peninsula, except six acres where his house stood on Beacon Hill, for £30 
($150), and the money was raised by a rate, each householder paying six shillings (about $L50). Compared 
with the price paid for Manhattan Island, the site of the commercial metropolis of the country, that paid for the 
peninsula on which New England's leading city stands was six times greater; but the former was bought from 
the Indians and the latter from an Englislmian, and a parson at that. With the money received from the sale, 
Blackstone bought cows and other thing.s, and travelled fartlicr into the wilderness, csfal)lishing a iicw home, 
which he called "Study Hill," not far from Provi- 
dence, R. I., on the banks of the picturesque river, 
which is now known as the Blackstone. 

Since Blackstone shook the dust of Boston off 
his shoes forever, and looked for the last time upon 
the first house his own hands had reared on the site 
of the now prosperous city, Beacon Hill, with its 
three peaks, has undergone great transformations. 
The peaks have long since disappeared. One was 
located behind where the State House now stands, 
near Mount Vernon, Temple and Hancock Streets 
(where the beacon stood), and was for a time desig- 
nated Gentry Hill ; another, situated farther west, 
was named Copley's Hill, and subsequently Mount 
Vernon, from which the present Mount Vernon Street 
derived its name; and the third, located to the east 
of Centry Hill, was first known as Cotton's Hill, and 
then as Pemberton's Ilill, from which the present 
Pemberton Square took its name. The original 
Treamount stretched from the head of the present 
Hanover Street on the east to near the present Charles 
Street on the west, and near West Cedar Street was 
a high bluff known as W^^st Hill. From Cambridge 
Street on the north, the hill extended to the Com- 
mon on the south, and its highest point was 138 feet 
above sea level. 

The beacon — a fiery alarm to the surrounding 
country of invasion or other danger — was fixed on the 
summit of the hill, just below the present Mount Vernon 
and Temple Streets, in 1634, by order of the Gen- 
eral Court, and thenceforward the eniinence became 
known as Beacon Hill. The beacon consisted of an iron 

skillet, filled with combustibles always ready for use, and was suspended from a crane of iron at the top of a 
tall mast, into which were driven tree-nails that served the purposes of a ladder. The times in which this 
beacon was erected were troublous, and the beacon had often to render important service to the struggling and 
harassed colonists, of whom twenty thousand came to the colony in the first ten years after the settlement of 
Boston. When the beacon was raised on the hill, a rude castle arose on an island before tlie town, and war 
vessels were commissioned, because at various times the port was menaced with attacks from Dutch, Spanish, 
and French fleets. In 1639 a thousand well-armed men mustered on the Common, and powerful contingents 
went out from Boston to aid the British expeditions against Louisburg, Quebec, Acadia and Havana; and the 
colonists, marching side by side with the best troops in the world, became veteran and skilful soldiers. One 
of the earliest colonists wrote to bis folks in the old country that the new land was " a hideous wilderness, 
possessed by barbarous Indians, very cold, sickly, rocky, barren, unfit for culture, and like to keep the people 
miserable." 





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38 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

The first beacon that was erected fell, thiough some unknown cause, and a new one was erected in 1768. 
In the dark days of the Revolution the British troops tore down the beacon and erected a small square fort 
in its stead ; but as soon as the English left the town in 1776 the inhabitants again placed the beacon in posi- 
tion. During a gale in 1789 it was blown down. On its site, in 1790-91 was erected a monument of brick 
to commemorate tlie lieroic deeds of those patriots who fell in the sanguinary struggle on Bunker Hill. The 
monument, which was sixty feet high and four wide, had a tablet on each of its four sides, and it was sur- 
mounted by a gilded eagle with outstretched wings. The inscription on the east-side tablet read : " Amer- 
icans: While from this eminence, scenes of luxuriant fertility, of flourishing commerce, and the abodes of social 
happiness meet your view, forget not those who have by their exertions secured to you these blessings." That 
on the south side: "To commemorate that train of events which led to the American Revolution and finally 
secured liberty and independence to the United States, this column is erected by the voluntary contributions 
of the citizens of Boston. MDCCXC." The west and north-side tablets contained lists of the principal events 
connected with the War of the Revolution. 

This hill formed a part of tlie public lands, and in 1811 the town sold off many of these, including the 
hill, to raise money to reduce its debts, which were pressing heavily upon it. Following the sale, a spirit of 
improvement set in, and the various eminences of Treamount were removed, much of the soil being used to 
raise the low land in the neighborhood of Charles Street, and to reclaim from the waters of the ocean thfi 
whole of the land now lying west of that thoroughfare. The tablets of the monument were placed in Doric 
Hall )n the State House, and the gilded eagle occupies a place over the speaker's chair in the House of Rep- 
resentatives. The work of improvement lasted for about a dozen years, and the whole aspect of Beacon Hill 
was changed. 

That side of the hill, overlooking the Common and the Public Garden, has for a hundred and fifty years 
been occupied by the most aristocratic houses in the city. Indeed, Beacon Street has been famed as the pa- 
trician street of Nevf England, and as corresponding with Fifth Avenue in New York, though much less splen- 
did than that grand thoroughfare, being lined with tall, sombre, brown stone structures, with no rich archi- 
tectural grandeur in church edifices to relieve the monotonj' as in the avenue. Beacon Street runs in a straight 
ine from Tremont Street over the crest of the hill, and has been extended by recent improvements to the 
aristocratic suburb of Longwood, running for a considerable distance close to and parallel with the river 
Charles. Along it and beyond it are the finest driveways in the country. On the hilly section of the street 
are the most fashionable and select clubs of the city, and here arc or were several houses of interest to literary 
men. One of these — now rebuilt — was for twoscore years the abode of the late George Ticknor, the bosom 
friend of Hawthorne, the fast friend of Southey and Scott, and the historian of Spanish literature. Another 
■was the residence of the famous blind scholar, W. H. Prescott, the historian of the Spanish Conquests of 
Mexico and Peru, etc. Among other residences may be pointed out that of C. C. Perkins, whose works on 
Tuscan sculptors and Italian art have had a world-wide circulation ; that of one of the best poets of a past 
generation, Richard H. Dana; and that of Charles Sumner, the famous leader of the anti-slavery movement, 
also many others too numerous to particularize in this work. 

Louisburg Square, situated on the western slope of the hill, and between Mount Vernon and Pinckney 
Streets, is an historic spot. Here was Blackstone's garden and spring. It is now private property, and in 
1834 was enclosed and given its present name to commemorate the victory at Louisburg, upon whicii the 
French had spent twenty years and 30,000,000 livres in fortifying, as a menace to New England. In 1745 an 
army of 4000 undisciplined Yankee farmers and artisans left Boston and, joining a powerful British squadron, 
overthrew the fortress. The enclosure has manv fine, noble trees, and two fine Italian statues of Aristides and 
Columbus. 

In late years, even on the patrician Beacon Street, trade has planted its vigorous foot, and the aristocracy, 
as it has multiplied its members, has moved in a westerly direction, but under the shadow of the time-honored 
Beacon Hill. The sturdier rank and file of humanity and the representatives of commerce have taken pos- 
session of the other slopes of the hill, and among the changes of recent years, a massive, gloomy structure of 
granite on Doane Street, built in 1849 for a distributing reservoir, has been removed, and the heavy stone work 
has gone to form the Charles River embankment, and to aid in constructing a wilderness into a beautiful park 
in the Back Bay district, thereby adding much to the beauty of that section. 



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Whose gilded dome is, as we 
stranger approaching Boston in any 
Beacon Hill, a fitting position for the 
above water level. Its dome, which 
reared, been a well-known land-mark 
has been an object prominent above 
House stood the old Hancock House, 
one of the noblest private mansions of 



THE STATE HOUSE, 

have already said, the first object that strikes the eye of the 
direction by land or sea, stands majestically on the highest point of 
capitol of the State. Its foundations are more than one hundred feet 
rises to an altitude of one hundred and ten feet, has, ever since it was 
in every direction; and since it was covered with gold leaf, in 1874, it 
all its surroundings, and an ornament to the city. Near to the State 
, the residence of Governor Hancock of Revolutionary fame, and it was 
the colonial period. It was razed in 1803, and private residences now 




"Washington Street, Looking North. 

occupy its site. The site of the State House was Governor Hancock's pasture, and over ninety years has 
slipped by since the town of Boston purchased it and presented it to the State. On July 4, 1795, there was 
a pompous display of Puritan burghers, the Freemasons marching to the strains of bands of music to lay the 
corner stone of the State House, under Grand Master Paul Revere, and Governor Samuel Adams, not long be- 
fore exiled for liberty's sake, giving the speech of dedication. The stone itself was drawn up the steep slope 
of Beacon Hill by fifteen white horses, representing the number of States forming the Union. The edi- 
fice was erected under the direction of Charles Bulfinch, and in January, 1798, the members of the Legislature 
marched in solemn procession from tlie Old State House, at the head of State Street, and took possession of 
the new capitol, which is a plain enough brick building, constructed massively, but at small cost, and seeking 
ornament only in a dark colonnade of Corinthian pillars and its shining Byzantine dome. Lofty flights of 



40 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

stone steps .ead from the street to tlie main entrance, and the high terraces are kept enlivened i_>y masses of 
brilliant flowers, in the midst of which stand bronze statues of the great orator, Daniel Webster, and of th& 
famous educator, Horace Mann. The steps lead into a large hall, known as Doric Hall, where, in the recesses, 
protected by plates of glass, are shown the tattered remnants of several scores of flags carried bv the Massa- 
chusetts regiments through the fierce struggles of the war for the Union. Here are also statues of Washing- 
ton and Governor Andrew; busts of Samuel Adams, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, and Abraham Lincoln; 
f(tc nimiles of the tombstones of the ancestors of Washington, from England ; the tablets from the Bea- 
con monument, and many rare remembrances of ancient days in the Old Bay State. The Hall of Repre- 
sentatives has accommodation for five hundred legislators. Over the speaker's chair is the gilded spread eagle 
which once did duty on the summit of Beacon monument ; and opposite hangs suspended from the ceiling 
the ancient wooden codfish brought from the Old State House, and typical of one of the foremost industries 
of the State. The Senate Chamber, where the Upper House meets, is adorned with notable trophies, and 
portraits of ancient worthies of Massachusetts ; and near it is the State library, where more than forty thou- 
sand volumes are kept. Younger States — States that have sprung into being since this old edifice was built — 
have reared, where a few years ago were wildernesses, capitols with marble walls, fretted with sculpture and 
carving ; but no State can be prouder of its capitol than that of Massachusetts, whose State House is typical 
of that simplicity and solidity which characterized the founders of the government. Plans have been prepared 
for enlarging the capitol and providing increased accommodation therein. On the slope and at the base of the 
hill, overlooked by the capitol, is 

THE COMMON, 

probablv the most famous bit of land on the American Continent. It is an undulating natural park of forty- 
eight acres, surrounded by an iron fence over a mile long, crossed by five walls, shaded by a thousand ancient 
and graceful elms. It is located in the heart of the city, is surrounded on all sides by hne upon line of busy 
and populous streets, and is the admiration not only of our own citizens, but of every visitor to the city, 
American and foreigner. When the early settlers purchased, more than two and a half centuries ago, the 
whole peninsula from Blackstone, they hiid out this place for a "training field," and "for the feeding of 
cattle." Until 1830 cattle continued to be grazed on the Common, wliich is still sometimes used as a training 
field. Originally the Common extended in one direction as far as Tremont House, and in another to Mason 
Sti'cct, bordering westerly on the Back Bay, then a marshy tract, the waters of the ocean then flowing up to 
Charles Street and to the foot of the Roxbury Hills. Where Park Street now is an almshouse, a bridewell, 
and a granary stood, and was called Sentry Field. Forty-three and three forths of the Common was enclosed 
in 1835 at a cost of $80,000, and later the remainder was enclosed. The Common is now surrounded on its 
four sides by Tremont, Boylston, Beacon and Park Streets, and it is one of the most beautiful and attractive 
parks in the country, rich in its greensward, its thousands of trees with umbrageous boughs, its ponds, monu- 
ments, and lovely walks. 

The Common is not valued by Bostonians alone for its beauties and for the opportunities for out-door 
recreation it affords, but for its historic associations. In the old granary referred to were made the sails 
of the frigate " Constitution," or "Old Ironsides," concerning the threatened destruction of which Boston's 
favorite citizen. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote in pencil, in his attic room in Cambridge, in 1829, and 
when he was but twenty years old: 

'■ And one who listened to the tale of shame. 

Whose heart still answered to that sacred name. 

Whose eye still followed o'er his country's tides 

Thy glorious tlag, our brave Old Ironsides ! 

From you lone attic, on a summer's morn, 

Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scorn," 

The troops who captured Louisburg, the troops enlisted by Amherst, and who conquered Quebec, and 
the soldiers whose fights brought about the American Revolution, mustered here. Boston, as more copious 
histories will tell the reader, handled the torch that set aflame the Revolution. It had resisted the imposition 
of taxes by England time after time, and given the mother country to understand it was prepared to conduct 
business on its own account, if let alone. Its sons had boarded vessels in the harbor and thrown taxed tea 



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into the sea ratlier than have it. They had resented the Stamp Act and other imposts, and made themselves 
so obnoxious to the English government that the latter declared the former rebels, and ordered the army of 
soldiers quartered on the town to send them to England for trial. Between the soldiery and the citizens there 
was, of course, no kindly feeling, and the dislike was intensified by an event known as 

THE "BOSTON MASSACRE," 
■which, it is not too much to say, was one of the most important events which united the interests and feelings 
of the colonists, and brought on the revolutionary war. After the elapse of more than a centnry tlie event 
has been commemorated by the recent raising on the Common of a monument, known as the Attucks Me- 
imorial, which stands on the greensward near the Tremont Street Mall. The massacre occurred toward even- 
ing, on Monday, March 5, 17 70, in the very centre of the business part of the town, in the rear of the State 











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Boylstoii Street, from Copley Square. 

House, on King Street — known since, for nearly a hundred years, by the more appropriate name of State 
Street. Of the five victims of the massacre, four of tliem, namely, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James 
Caldwell and Crispus Attucks, where buried on the Thursday following, March 8, in what is still known as the 
old Granary burying ground, on the present Tremont Street. On the occasion of the funeral the bells of the 
town were rung, places of business were closed, and vast numbers of all persons of citizens were in attendance. 
Various accounts have been written and published of the Boston massacre, not differing, however, much in 
their essential particulars, and all appear to agree in condemning the outrage as a natural result from the quar- 
tering of troops in the town. The soldiers belonged to the 14th and 29th Regiments, and it Las been well 
said that it was a move highly criminal to quarter troops in such a town as Boston then w^as. The people 
hated the soldiers, and this feeling was reciprocated by the latter with interest. The inhabitants could not go 
about their ordinary avocations without being challenged at every corner by sentinels, and often insulted and 
assaulted. Some outrage, it is said, was complained of every day ; and if soldiers in all cases of misconduct 
and violence were not the offending parties, their presence induced them, and they generally had the credit of 
them. "From the time the troops arrived in September, 1768," says one account, "until they left the town, 
there were complaints against them and trouble with them." On the afternoon before the massacre the sol- 
diers posted the following in writing as a warning to tlie people: — " Boston, March ye 5. 1770. This is to 
Inform ye Rebellious People in Boston that the soldjers in ve 14th and 29th Regiments are determined to 
Joine together and defend themselves against al' who Oppose them. Signed, Ye Soldjers of ye 14th and 29th 
Regiments." 



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" The evening of tlie 5tli came on. . . . Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, making a pa- 
rade of valor, challenging resistance, and striking the inhabitants indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cut- 
lasses. A band poured out from Murray's barracks, in Brattle Street, armed with clubs, cutlasses and bayonets, 
provoked resistance, and a fray ensued. One soldier after another levelled a firelock and threatened to make 
a lane through a crowd. At about nine o'clock, a party of soldiers issued violently from the main guard, in 
King Street, their arms glittering in the moonlight, hallooing. 'Where are .they? Where are they ? Let 
them come on !' Presently twelve or fifteen more, uttering the same cries, rushed from the south-side into 
King Street, and so by way of Cornhill (Washington Street) toward Murray's barracks. They knocked a 
small boy down, and abused and insulted several persons at their doors and in the street, while their outcries 
of fire caused the bells to be rung. A body of soldiers came up Royal E.xchange lane, crying, 'Where are the 

cowards ?' and, brandishing their arms, passed through King 
Street, a crowd of boys following them. A parley oc- 
curred with the sentinel, who had previously knocked one 
of the boys down, and loaded his gun and threatened to 
shoot them. 'Stand off!' said the sentry. 'They are 
killing the sentinel,' reported a servant, running to the main 
guard. ' Turn out ! why don't you turn out ?' cried 
Preston, captain of the guard. A party of six, two of 
whom, Kilroi and Montgomery, had been previously worsted 
in a fight at the ropewalk, formed with a corporal in front 
and Preston following. With bayonets fixed they rushed 
through the people upon the trot, cursing them and pushing 
them as they went along. They found about ten persons 
round the sentry, while about fifty or sixty came down with 
them. ' For God's sake,' said Henry Knox, who was pass- 
ing by, liolding Preston b)^ the coat, ' take your men back 
again ; if they fire your life must answer for the conse- 
quences.' ' 1 know what I am about,' said he, hastily and 
much agitated. None pressed on them or provoked them 
till they began loading, when a party of about twelve in 
luimber, with sticks in their hands, moved from tlie middle 
of the street, where they had been standing, gave three 
cheers, and passed along in front of the soldiers, whose 
muskets some of them struck as they went by. ' You are 
cowardly rascals, they said, ' for bringing arms against naked 
men. Lay aside your guns and we are ready for you !' 
. . . J\ist then Montgomery received a blow from a stick 
which had hit his musket, and the word ' fire !' being given 
by Preston, he stepped a little on one side and shot Attucks, 
who at the time was quietly leaning on a long stick. 
The people immediately began to move off. 'Don't fire,' said Longford, the watchman, to Kilroi, lookinir him 
full in the face; but yet he did so, and Samuel Gray, who was standing next to Longford, with his hands in 
bis bosom, fell lifeless. The rest fired slowly and in succession on the people who were dispersing, . . . 
Three persons were killed, eight were wounded, two of them mortally. Of all the eleven, not more than one 
had any share in the disturbance. So infuriated were the soldiers that when the men returned to take up thv 
dead they prepared to fire again, but were checked by Preston, while the 29th regiment appeared under arms 
in King Street. 'This is our time,' cried the soldiers of the 14th, and dogs were never seen more grecdv fur 
their prey. 

" The bells in all the cluirches were rung, and the cry of the people was 'To arms ! To arms !' ' Our hearts,' 
said Warren, ' beat to arms, almost resolved by one stroke to avenge the death of our slaughtered brethren.' 
The people would not be satisfied or retire till the regiment was confined to the guard room and the barracks, 
and Governor Hutchinson gave the assurance that instant inquiries should be made by the county magistrates. 




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Sucli, as we have described, was the Boston massacre and some of the atteinliiiii; circumstances. It was a rude 
and brutal and unnecessary nmrdering of the people, in support of unjust and wrongful claims and pretensions 
of the British ministry. Parliament and the King. It was the first blood spilled by British soldiers upon 
American soil, and, in fact, the initiation of the war which followed between the colonies and the mother 
country. From this time forward there was no longer agreement or concord of action between the govern- 
ment (king, ministry and Parliament) and the peo[)le of the American colonies. 

On the morning following the massacre, the Sons of Liberty gatliered in great numbers in Fancuil Hall, 
and resolved tliat the people and soldiers could no longer live together in safety. In the afternoon over three 
thousand persons assiemhled at the Old South Church and appointed a committee to wait upon the governor 
and Ooloncl J )alrymple, the commander of the forces, and to demand that the soldiers should be removed 
from the town if the peace of the province was to be preserved. The governor and his council and 




Colonel Dalrymple were in a dilemma, but seeing tliat the people meant hnsiness unless their demand was 
complied with, took the responsibility upon themselves of ordering the soldiers to remove to Castle Island, in 
the Harbor. 

Captain Preston and eight of his men were put on trial for murder. The court, on a pretence of its in- 
ability to determine whether it was Preston or some one else who gave the order to fire, acquitted him. Two 
of the soldiers, who declared that they had simply done their duty in obeying orders to fire, were found guiltv 
of manslaughter and sentenced to be branded in the liand in open court. For a long time the anniversary of 
the massacre was annually celebrated by Bostonians, but it was not until Wednesday, November 14, 1888, that 
a permanent memorial of the event was completed and unveiled on the Common with much ceremony, to 
immortalize Crispus Attucks and liis fellow victims. Attucks was a negro, and the monument is named after 
him. By publicly immortalizing the name of a negro who, it is presumed, was a patriot, race distinction in 
this country has received a blow that should be fatal. By inference a man is now declared a man, be he white, 
blact, rich or poor. This is undoubtedly the highest thought sugsjested bv the dedication ceremonies, though 
they were confined chiefly to eulon;y of the victims of the massacre by Professor Fiske and other orators on 
the occasion. The monument, while an ornament to the Common, stands as a silent encouragement to the 



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valor of future generations. It is the work of Mr. liobert Kraus. It bears in bas-relief, a representation of 
the event as it occurred in King (State) Street. The soldiers are in the act of firing upon the people, at the 
command of their captain, while the victims are seen falling among the crowd of people which surrounds 
them. The work is very vivid, life-like, and a very excellent representation of the scene. The sentiments 
which have been inscribed upon the monument, with the names of the authors, indicate the public estimation 
of the event at the present time almost as emphatically as compelling the troops to leave the town did more 
than a hundred years ago. These sentiments are the following : " From that moment we may date the sev- 
erance of the British empire." — Daniel Webster. " On that night the foundation of American independence 
was laid." — John Adams. 

After the massacre England continued to tighten the screws of exaction and oppression, while the Bos- 
tonians grew more obstinate. In March, 1774, the English Parliament ordered the closing of Boston port, 
and in the following September instructed the newly appointed governor of Massachusetts, General Gage, to 
reduce the colonists by force. A fleet and an army of ten thousand soldiers were sent to aid in the work of 
subjugation. Boston Neck was seized and fortified by the governor's orders ; the military stores in the ar- 
senals at Cambridge and Charlestown were conveyed to Boston; and the General Assembly was ordered to 
disband. 

The Common became the fortified camp. Earthworks were thrown up on several of its eminences, of 
which all traces have long since disappeared. The British artillery was stationed upon Flagstaff, or Powder- 
house Hill, where there were intrenchments and a powder house. A battery was located on Fox Hill, which 
stood near the present Charles Street. On the Boylston Street side, opposite the present Carver Street, was a 
strong fortification. The marines were located near the Tremont Street side of the Common, and the infantry 
were scattered over the old " trayning field." Deep trenches wore cut near the present Charles Street Mall, 
within a short distance of which was then the water front. Here during the winter of 1775-76 over 1 700 
British warriors waited in expectation of being attacked b}' Washington, for the whole town was in a state of 
siege. 

When it became ap[)arcnt what General Gage's instructions were, the Bostonians, concealing their guns 
and ammunition in cartloads of rubbish, conveyed them to Concord, sixteen miles away. Gage discovered the 
movement, and on the 18th of April, 1775, dispatched a regiment of 800 men to destroy the stores. Another 
purpose was to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were supposed to be hidden at Lexington or 
Concord. The fact was that they were not hidden anywhere, but were abroad encouraging the people. The 
plan of the British general was made with great secrecy ; but the patriots were on the alert, and discovered 
the movement, and when the regiment, under the command of Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn left the foot 
of the Common at Boston about midnight for Concord, under Gage's orders, the people of Boston, Charles- 
town and Cambridge were roused by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons by the patriots. Twa 
liours before, William Dawes and Paul Revere had started off on horseback to spread the alarm tlirougli the 
country, and at two o'clock in the morning a company of one hundred and thirty armed patriots had assem- 
bled on the Common at Lexington, with guns loaded. At five o'clock the English regiment hove in sight, and 
Pitcairn rode up and shouted: "Disperse, ye villains! Throw down your arms, ye rebels, and disperse 1" 
The minute men stood still ; Pitcairn discharged his pistol at them and cried "Fire!" The first volley of the 
Revolution whistled through the air, and sixteen of the patriots fell dead or wounded. The rest 
fired a few random shots and then dispersed. But the end was not yet. The British pushed on to 
Concord, but the inhabitants had removed the greater part of the stores to a jilace of safety, and 
there was but little destruction. Two cannons were spiked, some artillery carriages were destroyed, and a 
small quantity of ammunition thrown into a mill pond. While the English were pillaging the town the min- 
ute men gathered from all quarters, and came in contact with a company of soldiers guarding the North 
Bridge, over Concord River. For the first time the Americans fired under the orders of their officers and two 
English soldiers were killed. The bridge was taken by the patriots and the enemy began a retreat, first into 
the town and then through the town on the road to Lexington. Then the minute men attacked the enemy 
from every side, and kept up a terrible fire from behind rocks, trees, fences and barns. Nothing bnt good 
discipline and reinforcements which, under the command of Lord Percy, met the fugitives just below Lexing- 
ton, saved the English from total rout and destruction. The fight continued to the precincts of Charlestown, 
the patriots becoming more and more audacious in their onslaughts. At one time it seemed that the whole 



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British force would be obliged to surrender. Sucli a result was prevented only by the fear that tlie English 
fleet would burn Boston. The American loss in this, the first battle of the war, was forty -nine killed, thirty- 
four wounded and five missing ; that of the enemy was two hundred and seventv-three — a greater loss than 
the English army sustained on the Plains of Abraham. 

The battle of Lexington inspired the patriots everywhere, and within a few days an army of twenty thous- 
and men had gathered in the vicinity of Boston. A line of intrenchments 
encompassing the city was drawn from Roxbury to Chelsea, and tlic talk 
of the camp was to drive (iage and his army into the sea. On the 25th 
of May, Generals Ilowe, Clinton and Burgoyne arrived with more men, 
and the British army at Boston was increased to 10,000 strong. Gage issued 
a proclamation styling all in arms as rebels, and offering pardon to all who 
would submit to the King's authority except two, Samuel Adams and John 
Hancock, who were to be put to death, if canglit, as traitors. A well- 
f'uinded rnnior was set on foot that the English intended to sally out of 
liostou and burn tlie neighboring towns and devastate the country. The 
Americans with a view to preventing tins, seized and fortified Bunker Hill, 
but afterwards removed to a neighboring height, subsequently called Breed's 







Park Street Chupoh. 



Hill, which was within easy cannon range of Boston. On the l7th of June the British advanced against the 
stronghold, and a fierce struggle ensued, the patriots being only driven from the trenches at tlie point of the 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON, 



ha_vonet. It was, however, a costly victory for the English, who lost 1054 men in killed and wounded while 
the American loss was 115 killed, 305 wounded and 32 prisoners. 

The Bunker Hill fight showed that the British army was not invincible, and it was followed by increased 
enthusiasm among the Americans everywhere; and in all parts George the Third's authority was set at nought. 
Fifteen days after the Bunker Hill engagement General Washington arrived at Cambridge and tooi command 
of the patriotic army, while General Howe succeeded General Gage in command of tlie British troops in Bos- 
ton. Washington besieged the city all winter, and by tlie middle of February the American army had in- 
creased to 14,000 men. Washington was frequently urged to force a fight with the enemy, but until the 
spring he contented himself with narrowing his lines, strengthening his works, and waiting his opportunity. 
On tlie north, Boston was commanded by the peninsula of Charlestown, and on the south by Dorchester 
Heig-hts. Since the battle at Bunker Hill the former position had been held by the British; the latter was, as 




yet, unoccupied. "Washington resolved to take advantage, liy a strategic movement, of the enemy's oversight, 
to seize the Heiglits and drive Howe out of Boston. To distract the attention of the British, heavy cannon- 
ading was kept up from the American batteries for two days, and during the night of the 4th of March a 
detachment of Americans ascended the Heights and established a line of formidable intrenchments and cannon 
frowning upon the city. Howe was astonished next morning when he saw how he had been out-gcneralled, 
an(i that lie must either drive the American.s from the Heights or abandon the city. He directed Lord Percy 
to place liiniself at the head of 2400 men and storm the redoubts before nightfall. It was the anniversary of 
the " Boston Massacre," and the patriots were eager for vengeance. Percy got as far as Castle Island, when a 
violent storm arose and rendered the harbor impassable all day, so that the attack could not be made. The 
Americans continued to strengthen their position until Howe found liimself in the extremity ofgiving up the 
capital of New England to the rebels. By an informal agreement between Washington and Howe, the latter 
was allowed to retire from the city unmolested, on condition that lie did not burn the place. On the lYth of 
March, Howe and his army and some 1500 loyalist citizens left, and from tliat date the contending hosts trans- 
ferred their struggles to other parts of the country. On the 20th, Washington rode triumphantly into the 
city, and the ten months' siege had ended. Tlie whole country was exultant, and Congress ordered a gold 



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medal to be struck in honor of Washington, who wont in pursuit of the enemy to Long Island, but not before 
he had strengthened the defences of Boston. 

The Common not only played an important part in the Revo.uaonary era, but in the days of the Rebel- 
lion it was the mustering and encamping ground of the Massachusetts regiments wliich were sent to do battle 
with the armed hosts of the Southern Confederacy. The Common is yet the place on which military bodies 
muster on anniversary days and public events, and it has been the scene of celebrations of many military and 
naval victories. In ante-Revolutionary times, on this historic ground frequent executions occurred under the 
ancient trees, especially in 1676, when the Narragansett Indians had been subjugated in a fierce battle among 
the swamps of Rhode Island, and when many a valiant red-skinned warrior was brought hither in chains and 
suspended from the boughs of the w'ide-spreadmg elms. Thirty Indians were thus put to death in a single 
day. Here, too, Whitfield preached and Quakers were hanged for conscience' sake. The famous old Common 
has been swept by shot and shell by night and by day, and nobles, generals, and statesmen have plotted and 
planned, under the leafy shades, the fate of dynasties and empires ; and, within its cool retreats, lovers have for 
ages held their trystings, built airy castles, and whispered " sweet nothings," Orators have fretted and fumed 
on the greensward over real and fancied public wrongs ; youngsters liave, year after year, made the air ring 
with their merry shouts and laughter as they have swiftly glided on the winter ice on the hill-slopes ; musi- 
cians have filled, and do fill in the summer months, the balmy air with pleasant sounds ; and on festival days 
the old Common is a scene of jollity, presenting many of the sights of a country fair. 

The glories of statesmen, warriors, and scholars are commemorated on tlie Common by monuments and 
statues. On the highest point of the Common, long known as Flagstaff Hill, or Monument Hill, as it is now 
called, is the Army and Navy Monument, which is worthy of a city that gave to the cause of the LTnion in the 
War of the Rebellion 24,434 soldiers and 685 ofllicers. This magnificent specimen of the sculptor's art was 
the work of the late Mr. Martin Milmore, and cost $75,000. The corner-stone was laid September 18, 1871, 
and at its dedication, September 17, 1877, militia, veterans, and civic societies, numbering 25,000 men, marched 
in procession. This monument bears this record: "To the men of Boston, who died for their country on 
land and sea in the war which kept the Union whole, destroyed slavery, and maintained the constitution, the 
grateful city has built this monument, thai their example may speak to coming generations." The base is 
cruciform, three steps rising to a pedestal which is faced with large bronze reliefs, representing the departure 
of the State troops, battle scenes in which the army and navy were engaged, the work of the hospitals in the 
field, and the returti of the volunteers to the city. Between and above these stand four heroic bronze statues : 
The Soldier, fully equipped, with his musket and bayonet fixed; the Sailor, facing seaward, with drawn 
cutlass; History, a female figure, laurel-wreathed, clad in Greek costume, and about to write on a tablet; and 
Peace, another classic female figure, seated and holding an olive-branch toward the South. Above these rises 
a tall Roman Doric Shaft of white Maine granite, with allegorical figures representing the North, South, East, 
and West at its base and four marble eagles at the top. The summit of the monument, seventy feet high, is 
a colossal bronze statue of the Genius of America, crowned with thirteen stars, holding a bare sword and two 
laurel wreaths in one hand, and a banner stafE in the other, and with her face bowed towards the south. Of 
this great and imposing memorial we give a fine illustration in these pages. 

At the foot of the hill, within an iron inclosure, stood an old tree, known as the " Old Elm," until the 
winter of 1876, when it was destroyed in a gale. It was believed to have been there even before Blackstone 
set foot on the peninsula, and was regarded as the oldest of its kind in Boston. It was decrepit even in l775, 
and was tenderly cared for for more than a hundred years. It liad been the scene of many stirring events. 
Witches, Quakers, murderers, pirates, and others had been hanged from its branches; the "Sons of Liberty" 
had illuminated it with lanterns in Revolutionary days ; duels had been fought under its shadow ; and it had 
been a tryst for generation after generation of Bostonians. A foot above the ground, its circumference was 
22^ feet, and it rose to a height of over 72 feet. A shoot off the "Old Elm" is now thriving on the spot 
where the old monarch of the forest stood. 

THE PUBLIC GARDEN 

lies just to the westward of the Common, with which it forms one of the handsomest parks in the country. 
The Garden, which is only separated from the Common by Charles Street, is in form varying little from a par- 
allelogram, and contains over twenty-four acres. The site of the Garden was formerly a dreary expanse of 



48 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

marshy flats, overflowed by high tides, and was known as Round Marsh, or " the marsh at the bottom of tlie 
Common." After a great fire among some rope-wallcs in the present Congress Street in 1794, the cit}', in a fit 
of generosity, gave the marsh to tlie burned-out roperaakers. In 1819 their rope-walks on the marsh were 
burned out, but, as the land round about had increased much in value, they determined that it would pay them 
better to sell the marsh for building purposes than to reconstruct their rope-walks. The citizens were indig- 
nant, but the ropemakers were determined, and finally, in 1824, the city fathers concluded to buy back their 
gift of thirty years before, for $54,000 to make a public garden out of the marsh. In this they have succeeded 
admirably. In the centre is an artificial lake, with fountains, swan-houses, pleasure-boats, etc. The Garden 
is intersected with fine, graveled, sinuous walks, the velvety lawns are kept in splendid order, and the floral 
displays are tlie finest in America. The Garden contains many fine statues, among them being a colossal eques- 
trian one of General Washington, bronze statues of Charles Sunmer and Edward Everett, and a granite and 
red marble monument to commemorate the discovery in Boston of ether as an anaesthetic. By night the 
Garden is illuminated by electric lights, and the place is a popular resort for persons of all conditions. 

ORIGINAL AND PRESENT AREAS OF BOSTON. 

In the preceding pages frequent reference has been made to the first settlement of Bostonlans being on a 
peninsula. When Blackstone was here " lord of all he surveyed," his landed jiosscssions formed a pear- 
shaped peninsula, and up to the beginning of the last half century the territorial area of the city was limited 
to the land owned by him. Its extreme length was less than two miles, and its greatest breadth a little more 
than one. The peninsula "hung to the mainland, at Roxbury," says one writer, "by a slender stem, or neck 
of a mile in length, so low and narrow between tide-washed flats that it was often submerged. Now tlie 
original 783 acres of solid land have become 1829. The broad, oozy salt-marshes, the estuaries, coverts, and 
bays once stretching wide on its northern and southern bounds have been reclaimed ; and where then the 
area was the narrowest, it is now the widest. The liills have been cut down — one. Fort Hill, entirely removed ; 
the whole surface of the original ground has been levelled and graded, and every square inch turned over and 
over ; new territory has been added by annexing adjoining suburban cities and towns, until now the area of 
the city, with all its districts, is 2.3,661 acres (36 j-^ square miles) — more than thirty times as great as the original 
area. The areas of the districts are as follows: South Boston, 1002 acres; East Boston, 836; Roxbury, 2700; 
Dorchester, 5614; West Roxbury, 7848; Brighton, 2277; Charlestown, 586; Breed's Island, 785; Deer 
Island, 184. 

The following islands in the liarbor of Boston belong to the city, viz. : Deer Island, containing 184 acres 
upland, and 50 acres flats, conveyed to the inhabitants of Boston, March 4, 1634-35 ; Thompson's Island, an- 
nexed to Boston by actof March 15, 1834; Great Brewster Island, containing 16 acres, purchased in 1848 
for $4000; Gallop's Island, containing 16 acres, purchased in 1860 for $6600 ; Apple Island, containing 9+ 
acres, purchased 1867 for $3750; Rainsford Island, containing 11 acres, purchased, together with all hos- 
pital buildings and dwellings thereon, in 1871, for $40,000. Male paupers whose settlement is established 
in this city are now located in the large hospital building upon this island. Moon Island, containing about 
30 acres, was taken by right of eminent domain from the heirs of James Huckins and others in 1879, and 
constitutes the point of discharge of the great sewer of the city of Boston. The city has within it 123,268,652 
feet of marsh-land flats ; and the measurement of the city from north to south is eleven miles, and from east to 
west nine miles. The principal business section of the city, lying between the harbor and Charles River, is a 
mile and a quarter across. 

The various annexations tliat have been made to the city have necessitated the building of many bridges 
over the water-ways that separate the city proper from the districts annexed. These bridges are : Broad- 
way Bridge, over Fort Point Channel to South Boston; Cambridge Bridge. Western Avenue and North Har- 
vard Street bridges, from Brighton to Cambridge ; Canal, or Craigie's Bridge, Leverett Street to East Cam- 
bridge ; Charles River Bridge, Charlestown Street to Cliarlestown ; Chelsea bridges (North and South), Cliarles. 
town to Chelsea ; Chelsea Street Bridge, East Boston to Chelsea; Commercial Point Bridge; Congress Street 
Bridge, over Fort Point Channel ; Dover Street Bridge, to South Boston ; Essex Street Bridge, Brighton to 
Cambridge ; Federal Street Bridge, to South Boston ; Granite Bridge, Dorchester to Milton ; Maiden Bridge, 
Charlestown to Everett; Meridian Street Bridge, East Boston to Clielsea ; Mount Washington Avenue Bridge, 
to South Boston ; Neponset Bridge, Dorchester to Quincy ; North Beacon Street Bridge, Brighton to Water- 



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town; Prison Point Briilgo, Cliarlestown to P2a>t Cambridge; AVarrcn Bridge, Beverly Street to Charlcstown ; 
West Boston Bridge, Cambridge Street to Cambridgeport ; Western Avenue Bridge, to Watcrtown ; W'intlirop 
Bridge, Breed's Island to Wintlirop. A new bridge is now in course of construction from the Back Bay lands 
across the Charles River to Cambridgeport, and will bo of vast service to the people located in these thriving 
sections. 



CREATED LAND. 

Proudly as she sits by the sea, majestic as she appears in her thrift and grandeur as the metropolis of 
New England, Boston has not acquired her present domain, her pre-eminence among the cities of the New 




World, and her prosperity as a great manufacturing and com- 
mercial ciiitre on the Atlantic seaboard, without a patient and 
prolonged struggle with natural obstacles and manifold ad- 
versities in varied forms. From statistics, given in a previous 
page, it will be seen that what arc now the most \aluable sec- 
tions of the city have been stolen, as it were, by engineering 
skill from the boundless and restless ocean. Mucli of the 
original peninsula was rocky, and what is now the Common was 
liberally strewn with boulders deposited there ages ago. The 
first settlers found the peninsula abounding in abrupt and 
gradual elevations; large inlets of sea-water, that nearly 
divided it ; broad fringes of ooze, and mud, and extensive marshes; an inner bay and with but a slender 
neck connecting it with the mainland. The greatest breadth of the Neck was at Beach Street, and its nar- 
rowest at Dover Street. From the latter point, says Drake, " it increased gradually in width to the neighbor- 



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road 



hood of Dedliam Street, tlience expanding in greater proportion to tlie line at the present car-stables, nearly 
opposite Metropolitan Place." In Revolutionary times the Neck was known as that part lying south of Dover 
Street, and at high tides the road was in some places covered with water which reached to the knees of horses 
passing through it. A sea-wall was built on the west side and a dyke on the east. A little south of the pres- 
ent Dover Street a fortification was built, and here were gates which were closed at night and which prevented 
any one from coming into or leaving the town on that side after a certain hour at night. 

Since that time tne city has been enlarging its area on every hand by making inroads upon the domain 
of Old Neptune, and this at fabulous cost, for the materials with which to do this have had to be carried from 
a distance. Trees were not found numerous on the peninsula by the first customers, though bushes were 
abundant ; and to what extent the trees growing on the site served for house-building, the records are silent. 
But, when it was found necessary to construct piers or wharves, or to form solid borders to the territory over 
marslilands, or to push out to deep water, piles and timber had to be brought chiefly from the islands in the 
harbor. For a long time cargoes for sea going vessels had to be carried in small boats between the shore and 
the shps. It would be a curious calculation, were it possible, to estimate the number of forest trees which, 
from the earliest days to the present, have been driven into the marginal or alluvial soil of Boston, as solid 
land has been made over the water-flowage. These trees, covered with granite from the blowing up of local 
quarries and from Cape Ann, and with sand and gravel from hills a score of miles inland, illustrate the condi- 
tions by which a foothold has been secured on the peninsula. It is interesting, however briefly done, to in- 
quire what has been achieved in this direction in the various 

SECTIONAL DIVISIONS' OF THE CITY. 

In the earlv days the " Old Canal," or Mill Creek, which ran on the line of the present Boston & Maine Rail- 
from Causeway Street to Haymarket Square, thence through Blackstonc Street and North to the old town 

dock, where North Market Street now is, divided the city into the 
North and South Ends. At the beginning of the present century 
the whole of what is now llaymarket Square — the termination of 
Union, Washington, Sudbury, Cross, Merrimack, Canal, Haverhill, 
Charlestown, and Blackstone Streets — was a pool, known as Mill 
Cove and Mill Pond, and this was spanned by a bridge. This 
waterway was known as the Middlesex Canal, by which canal-boats 
came down from the up-country, along the Merrimack, to the East- 
Side wharves of Boston. The Canal was filled up and Blackstone 
Street opened as a thoroughfare in 1834. At this time, and for 
some years afterwards. Commercial Street, from the Old Battery, 
or Battery Wharf, to Long Wharf, was a water-front ; and, until 
Broad Street was laid out, in 1808, Battery-march, to its junction 
with Kilby Street, marked the water-line. Where Dock Square 
now is, was formerly the Town Dock, which ran along the foot 
of the Market Place, about where Faneuil Hall now stands ; and 
near the junction of North and Union Streets was the " Watch- 
house.' Near the latter was a reservoir of water, raised in the 
centre and sloping at the sides, and was called the "Conduit." It 
was about twelve feet square, and the top was utilized as a meat- 
market on Saturdays. At the foot of Merchant's Row was a swing- 
bridge over the dock. What is now Atlantic Avenue was at one 
time the site of an ancient hai'bor defence known as the Barricado, 
but sometimes called the " Sea- Wall " or " Out-AVharves." It 
connected the South Battery, which was on the spot where Rowe's 
Wharf now is, with the North Battery, which was at the North 
End, opposite Charlestown. It formed a line of about 2200 feet in length, about 15 feet in height, and 20 
feet in breadth at the top. It was erected in 1673, and was provided with openings to allow shipping to 
pass within its line, while it was calculated to mount heavy guns en barhcttr. It was of little use, fell into 




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decay, and finally gave way to iiupioveiiients. It will be seen that all the present water-front extending to 
a line with Commercial Street, and, in places beyond it, is made land, and the most valuable in the city. 
Atlantic Avenue, extending from the junction of Commercial Street and Eastern Avenue to Federal Street, 
was constructed by the city at a cost of |2, 404,078, and is 100 feet in width. Here are immence wharves, 
huo-e warehouses, and immense traffic, which is facilitated by the railroad cars running along the line of 
docks. It was at one of these wharves — the Liverpool (formerly Griffin's) Wharf — where the famous 
" Boston Tea Party " took place, and to which we shall revert hereafter. 

The term " North End " is usuallv applied to that section of the city lying towards Charlestown, between 
the Boston & Maine Station and Faneuil Hall. This was the tirst settled part of the town, and it is historic 
ground and once the residential quarter for Boston's aristocracy, and now the abode of thousands of the 




State House. 

liumb.er classes. North Square, the small triangular 
inclosure between North and Moon Streets, was, in the 
early days, the heart of the " court end " of the town. 
In the immediate neighborliood the first families dwelt. For years the " Old 
North," the "Church of the Mathers," occupied one side of the Square, near 
where the Mariner's House now is. This church was torn down by the British 
during the siege of the city, and was used by them for firewood. In 1734 
one of the three town markets was located in the Square, in which was 
located the residence of the Revolutionary hero, Paul Revere. Near the Square, on corner of North and Rich- 
mond Streets, was the famous hostelry, the Red Lion Inn, kept by a Quaker, one Nicholas Upsall, who, in the 
days of reliciious persecution, was put to death because of his Quakerism. In time this section became a 
" dangerous " quarter, the habitation of the immoral and vicious, but street improvements and electric lights 
have done much to take away from the locality a large measure of its unsavoriness. Till within a compar- 
atively few years the North End retained the quaint, old-fashioned look of the town as it was a hundred and 
more years ago. Many of the ancient houses still remained, with "gambrel roofs and overhanging stories, 



52 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

standing close upon tlie narrow, crooked and winding streets that characterize the older portion of most old 
cities." But the hand of improvement has been busy here, as elsewhere for streets have been straightened 
and widened, and the old houses sliced off, set bade, torn down, or decorated with new fronts. Tlie most 
marked improvement is in Hanover Street, stretching from Court Street, on the slope of the Pemberton Hill, — 
one of the peaks of the ancient Treamount, — to tlie water-front on Atlantic Avenue. This thoroughfare was 
opened out about a quarter of a century ago, since which time many old store edifices have given place to 
fine business blocks of spacious character, and Hanover Street is to-day one of the best-known business av- 
enues of the city. Salem Street (which runs oil obliquely from Hanover Street, and then runs nearly parallel 
with it), and the streets which cross it, offer to tlie lover of the antique and curious much to interest him. 
.Modern innovations in the building art are here and there apparent, but on Salem and the intersecting streets 
there are still many good examples of the colonial style of building yet extant, with the second story projecting 
over the first. Salem, Cross and adjacent streets are to-day chiefly occupied by Jews, and their stores are 
the centres for trade in second-hand clothing, jewelry, and " odds and ends " of every description. From the 
left of Salem Street, through Baldwin Place, is the Home for Little Wanderers, where poor children, many of 
them orphans, are received and cared for, and ultimately given permanent homes in the country and in West- 
ern States on farms. Farther down Salem Street, opposite Sheafe Street, is the Industrial Home, where poor 
cliildren and adults are instructed to become useful workpeople. The most interesting part of Salem Street 
is below Prince Street. The picturesque features are the old Christ Church, which fronts on Hull Street, and 
the ancient Copp's Hill Burying-ground near bv. Christ Church is associated with the outbreak of the Rev- 
olutionary War. It was 

" Here the patriot hung his light 
Which shone through all that anxious night 
To eager eyes of Paul Revere." 

An inscribed stone in the front of the steeple declares, in spite of some writers who have found time to argue 
to the contrary: "The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of tliis churcii April 18, 1775, 
warned tlie country of the march of tlie British troops to Lexington and Concord." Here, top, is the oldest 
■chime of bells in America. The inscriptions on them tell their history. On the first is, "This peal of 
eight bells is the gift of a number of generous persons to Christ Church in Boston, New England, anno 1744, 
A. R. ;" on the second, "This church was founded in the year 1723, Timothy Cutler, doctor in divinity, the 
first rector, A. R. 1744 ;" the third, " We are tlie first ring of bells cast for the British empire in North 
America, A. R. 1744;" the fourth, "God preserve the church of England, 1744;" the fifth, "William Shirley, 
Esq., Governor of the Massachusetts Bay in N. E., anno 1744;" the sixth, " The subscription for these bells 
was begun by John Hammock, Robert Temple, Robert Jenkins, and Ino Gould, church wardens, l744;" the 
seventh, "Since generosity lias opened our mouths, our tongues shall ring aloud its praise, 1744;" the eighth, 
"Abel Rudhall, of Gloucester, cast us all, anno 1744." The aggregate weight of the eight bells is 7272 
pounds; they cost £560; the freight by ship from England was given by John Rowe, and the charges for 
wheels and hanging were £93. 

These bells relate their own story so concisely that one wishes they could chronicle with equal clearness 
the events which have occurred around them since first they rang their opening peal. What an interesting 
tale it would be ! But they have had their share in making history, and their voices have often been lifted in 
behalf of liberty and humanity, as well as for the sacred cause of religion. The belfry in which the bells now 
are is not, however, the same that first received them. That was blown down by a tempest early in the pres- 
ent century, and the present erection, though old as things go in America, is modern compared with the main 
edifice. In the times that tried men's souls to the uttermost, the bells here tolled when danger for the col- 
onists was at hand ; thcv' called meetings of patriots, and rang merrily when the independence of the United 
States was declared. 

Near by the church is the ancient burial-ground of Copp's Hill, once the site of the homestead of W'il- 
liam Copp, an industrial cobbler. The lull was originally much higher than it is now, but, notwithstanding 
changes affected in its surroundings, the old graveyard, where the bones of many noted old Bostonians have 
been laid at rest, has been carefully preserved, aud is a place of great attraction to all who find interest in old- 
time associations. At one time a small mill stood on the summit of the hill, which in 1660 was laid out for 



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a gTaveyard, and this f,>r a iciig- time was known as tlie 01.1 North Cur) hig-gi-ouu.l. In the sk-ge of Boston 
the Britisli established a redoubt on this hill, and from the battery- hero they fired upon the Americau earth- 
works on Breed's Hill in the battle of Bunker Hill. From here, too, the English poured hot shot into Charles- 
town, and destroyed the village. It is said that the Britisli, wliilc here, made targets of the gravestones of 

the burying-ground. Wlien the English evacuated Boston, 
on March 17, 177U, three of the heaviest guns of the battery 
here were found to be spiked and clogged so as to jircvent 
tlieir immediate use. 

In late years the whole of the North k^nd has under- 
gone great transformations. New churches have arisen, 
streets have been straightened and widened, and large ware- 
houses, and factories, and work-shops have taken the place 
of what were once habitations of the humblest and least 
favored of the population. Ilaymarket Square, once a pond 
with a bridge over it, is now one of the busiest centres in the 




The New Old South Church. 



City with streets branching off from it to all points of the compass. The Boston & Maine Railroad Station site 
fronting on the Square, and all the ground in tlie rear of it is made land, and now of enormous value. When the 
projected new Union Railroad Depot shall have been erected on Causeway Street and on the water's edge the 
who.3 of the space now occupied by the railroad between Causeway Street and Uaymarket Square till be 
thrown open for improvement and new buildings, and as important a cliange will be effected as was achieved 
Z InA'l ^'y t'-^ ''I'™^"/ "P of Washington Street from Dock Square to Ilaymarket Square at a cost of 
11,500,000. But let ns for a moment turn from the North End (which is the designation of that part of 
the city lying towards Charlestown, between the Boston A- Maine Station and Fancuil Hall), to 



54 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

THE SOUTH END. 

This appellation now applies to that part of the city lying to the south of Dover Street and extending to 
the Roxbury district. All this area is largely made land, and the newer portion, towards the West, joins the 
New West End, or Back Bay distr.ct ; but in the early days the canal which ran through Causeway Street, 
Haymarket Square, and Blackstone Street to the old town dock, where North Market Street now is, divided 
the city into the North and South Ends. The Old South Church, on the corner of Washington and Milk 
Streets, was, when erected, out at the South End ; hence its name. For many years the South End contained 
the principal shops, the finest mansion houses, and the Common. What is now known as the South End 
was then the Neck Field. At a later date the present Winter Street formed the down-town boundary. Then 
the boundary was extended to Boylston Street, and next to Dover Street, which is now recognized as the line 
between the Central portion of the city and the South End. 

For over thirty years subsequent to the settlement of Boston all that part of the South End embraced in 
the territory included between Knoeland and Eliot Streets north, and Castle Street south, was one unbroken 
field, the property of Deacon William Colbron. The " highway to Roxberrie," as it was termed, leading from 
North End, made a detour at Kneeland Street eastwardly, following thence the margin of the Old South Bay 
to Ca.stle Street, whence a return was made to the road leading over the Neck, which, a short distance beyond 
the present Dover Street, had a gate across it to keep out marauding animals, and as a sort of protection against 
the incursions of Indians. In 1663, however, a straighter line was made for the highway by an opening 
through the Colbron field. W^licn Washington Street — now a continuous thoroughfare from Haymarket 
Square, through the heart of the city, to the Highlands — existed under several titles, that portion of it south- 
ward from the intersection of Essex Street bore the name of Orange Street, and at this point the Neck of 
former days actually commenced. The tide came up to within a stone's throw of old Orange Street on the 
easterly side and to Pleasant Street on the westerly margin. From Essex Street the width gradually dimin- 
ished, until there was a mere thread of land, which was often overflowed by the high tides. This pari of the 
territory of Boston, a century back, was practically in the " country." There were not more than seventy- 

five families on the whole of it, extending from Essex Street to the Roxbury line and including all adjoining 
territory, and these families were distributed widely apart in the manner common with outlying precincts of 
villages. Each householder had and cultivated more or less of a garden for the growth of fruits and vegetables. 
Some of these residences were the abodes of persons of affluence who had retired from the active channels of 
trade. The district, too, was noted for several prominent distilleries a century ago. Following this period the 
town had a healthy growth, on the recovery from the depression consequent upon the Revolution, and there 
was excited and exploring spirit for new habitations. This led many seekers to the Neck district, and to the 
filling up of the vacant places with residences. Streets were opened intersectingly ; and those openings which 
had previously been simple places or courts leading to single houses were rearranged for the purposes of thor- 
oughfares. 

In 1809 the Boylston Market was erected on the corner of Washington and Boylston Street, and its site 
was then on the outer margin of the town. This building (removed during the last three years) was named 
in lionor of Ward Nicholas Boylston, a great benefactor of Harvard College. He it was who presented the 
clock that for so long a period did faithful duty in the tower of the quaint-looking old market, which con- 
tained three floors and basement. The land upon which the building was erected cost 75 cents per foot and 
the building itself $i30, 000. In 18.59 the building was extended 40 feet, and in 1870 was bodily removed 
back from the street 1 1 feet. The lower floor served as the market, and the Boylston Hall, above it, was used 
for church services, musical, theatrical, and miscellaneous entertainments, drillroom, armory, etc. A new, ele- 
gant structure of larger dimensions, covering about 15,000 square feet and costing about $250,000 to build, 
has just been erected on its site. The lower floor is a clothing store, and the upper floors are divided into 
offices. In its day the old Boylston Market was a great factor in promoting good living, and it drew its 
patronage from the elite of the city. Its erection led to the building in its vicinity of other public edifices of 
considerable note, among these being Mellish Motte's Unitarian Church, Dr. Phelp's Congregational Church, 
the Franklin Schoolhouse, etc. 

The work of creatino; the area comprised witliin the modern South End was begun, about the year 1853, 
by widening tiic Neck. This was done by reclaiming the flats on either side of it. Before this time, how- 



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55 



ever, — in 1844, — Harrison Avenue liad been laid out, and in 1832 Tremont Street, on tlie west side of the 
Neck, liad been extended to tlie Roxbury line. When in 1856 the street-railroad system was introduced, — 
the first line of the Metropolitan Company running from the old Granary Burying-ground, on Tremont Street, 
to Roxbury — the South End at once became the favorite residence portion, and building was extensively 
begun. Until the building up of the Back Bay district, the South End was the best residence section, and 
large portions of it still contain fine estates occupied by the most substantial citizens of the city. Legrange 
Street, once known as Legrange Place, was formerly one of the most charming spots in town, having nice 
houses, in a secluded position, handy to business. For some unexplained reason, however, the tenants were 
restless, and made frequent changes, but for many years tenants wore drawn from the better class of citizens 
engaged in mercantile life. In time " boarding-places " were opened, and later Langrange Place bad become 




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a centre for residences of musical people. Since the place was opened out as a thoroughfare from Washington 
Street to Tremont Street, it has been a headquarters for the sporting fraternity, besides being the locale of 
one of the most lively police stations in the city. In former days the atmosphere of the South End was per- 
meated with an aromatic and pungent odor derived from various distilleries. There were two distilleries in 
the vicinity of Harvard Street, one of which was quite extensive, and was owned by W. C. Fay. Another, 
kept by Gardner Brewer, was situated on the corner of Washington Street and the present Indiana Street 
(then known as Distill house Street). Luther and Artemas Felton each prosecuted the distillery business a little 
farther up-street, and, on Castle and Suffolk Streets, Alexander Meldrum carried on an extensive brewery, where 
old-fashioned ale was made, and which was a popular resort for all thirsty Soutli-Enders. 



56 



ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



While tliree score years ago tlic air was redolent with the flavor of liops and the odor of new rum, there 
were three cliurclics in this region exerting a " powerful influence in exhibiting the religious tendencies of the 
inhabitants. They were all flourishing to their utmost. Dr. John Pierpont's society, in Hollis Street, repre- 
sented the most rigid Unitarians, and embraced in its congregation several who, like Francis Jackson, held 
advanced views upon moral questions, in common with their pastor. He was talented, and his independence 
often took an oflEensive form. On the corner of the present Motto Street stands a relic of what was one of 
the most fashionable Unitarian churches in town. Here Rev. Mellish Motte preached, and here Charlotte 
Cushman (before her theatrical days) sung in the choir, along with several members of the Handel and Haydn 
Society, including John G. Roberts, before alluded to. The immediate neighborhood of this church had then 
recently been improved and occupied by the residences of a number of its members. Orange Street then was 
a charming place, and its houses were eagerly sought for when erected. The houses are there now, but the 
street has a forbidding appearance. In placing the railroad bridge near by, it was made necessary to raise the 
grade, and the corners of Orange Street were demolished. On the lower corner the building contained an 
elegant hall, where fashionable parties and dances were held. Across the street, at its entrance, was sprung a 
tasty iron arch, holding a handsome lantern in the centre, which threw its rays down the street, giving a cheer- 
ful aspect after nightfall. The other church in allusion was known as the Pine Street Church. The old shell 
of this edifice still remains. The society held a first-class position under the ministration of Rev. Amos A. 
PhelDS, and is perpetuated to-day by the church corner of Berkeley and Appleton Sti-eets, as Mr. Mottc's 
society is by that known as Edward E. Hale's." The site of the Hollis Street Church, which was built in 
1819, is now occupied by the Hollis Street Theatre, and the congregation of the old church have now com- 
fortable quarters in a fine new edifice on the corner of Exeter and Newbury Streets. 

The avenues and streets of the South End section of the city are wide and handsome. It needs but little 
discernment for one familiar with the territory and its properties lying between Washington and Tremont 

--__-_^_^ - ... Streets, and extending from School to Dover 

Streets, to divine the purpose of enterprising 
citizens in 1868 of laying out a new thor- 
oughfare to the South End, midway between 
the tlien and now main arteries of the city. 
Shawmut Avenue did not then exist except 
as Suffolk Street, and thatliad not then been 
extended and widened to intersect with Tre- 
mont Street. Washington Street was narrow 
and crowded with traffic and stores, and 
Tremont Street was just beginning to de- 
velop into a business property. The im- 
provements made, of what had been rear 
property, valuable front building lots, and 
new residences and stores soon lined the 
avenue. Shawmut Avenue and Tremont 
Street arc of generous width, as also is 
Washington Street and likewise Columbus 
Avenue on the west, while on the east side 
the chief thoroughfares are Albany Street 
and Harrison Avenue. These are the main 
thoroughfares running from north to 
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small strip on Washington Street, are on made land. The streets crossing these are very numerous, several of 
them containing many beautiful residences, and the most of them lined with comfortable dwellings. The 
principal cross streets include Canton, Brookline, Union Park, Newton, Rutland, Concord, AVorcester, Spring- 
field, and Chesterpark Streets. The " through" streets are spoken of as East or West, taking Washington Street 
as the dividing line. Scattered all through the South End are many large public and private buildings, a 




THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 57 

nunilior of noted cluircli edifices, numerous large manufactories, and some of the finest apartment Iiouses in tlie 
cit_v and country. 

The leading streets and avenues stretching from north to south extend for miles, and are lined with richly 
equipped marts of trade and attractive residences, sanctuaries, hospitals, halls, and educational institutions. 
Building operations liave been actively prosecuted in late years, the entire region of the South End has been 
changed in its aspect, and real estate has increased immensely in value. The whole district is intersected with 
horse railroads, and an old-time Bostonian can find much here to interest him in comparing tlie present with 
the past. Let him take a horse-car on Tremont Street, and as the vehicle sweeps round the corner of the 
Common into Boylston Street he espies on the opposite corner the Hotel Pelham, the first building of the 
"French flats," or "family liotel " class in Boston. The edifice was erected a little over a quarter of a century 
ago by Dr. John Dix, and lias always been regarded as the finest and most popular of its kind. The building 
is valued at $120,000 ; the whole is assessed at $134,300, and the tax paid by the proprietor, Mr. J. L. Little, 
is $31,500. Some years ago, when Tremont Street was not as wide at this point as it is to-day, this hotel 
was raised up bodily and moved about twenty feet down Boylston Street, without disturbing the occupants, 
or in the least disarranging the interior. This was tlie greatest engineering feat of the age, being the first 
instance of the moving of such a large mass of masonry ; and it not only excited tlie wonder of people at home 
but of those in Europe, where the newspapers published full descriptions of the work of removal. On the 
opposite corner is the Hotel Boylston, originally erected as an apartment house, with the kitchens in the upper 
story. It belongs to the estate of Charles Francis Adams. The total valuation of this house is $419,000, the 
building being assessed at $180,300, and the tax paid by the trustees amounting to $30,000. Adjoining the 
Pelham Hotel is one of the most useful and most appreciated institutions in the city — the Public Library. As 
the car sweeps along Boylston Street, the traveller notices many changes that have been made and that are 
being made in the buildings fronting on the deer park and the old burying-ground at the foot of the Common. 
A few years ago these buildings were occupied as residences by noted wealthy Bostonians; now thev are being 
utilized for business purposes. Turning into Park Square, one notices here many improvements which did not 
exist a few years ago. A prominent feature in the Square is the " Emancipation Group " monument, repre- 
senting Lincoln with the figure of a slave kneeling at his feet in gratitude for the Emancipation Proclamation, 
the broken fetters falling from his limbs. This group is of bronze, designed by Thomas Ball. It was pre- 
sented to the city by lion. Moses Kimball, proprietor of the Boston Museum. On one side of the Square is 
the station of the Providence Division of the Old Colony Railroad, built at immense cost, and forming one of 
the handsomest and best-equipped railroad stations in the world. The property in this Square and in the 
streets branching off from it has increased phenomenally within the pa.st few years, and vast improvements are 
distinguishable on every liand. This increase between the Square and Church Street may be said to be 
greater than in any other section of the city. Ten years ago this property was held at a very low valuation, 
and some of it could hardly be given away, so to speak — that is, could not find a purchaser. Now some of it 
is immensely valuable, and all of it is very desirable, and with a great future before it. The corner building 
on the Square was erected by William J. Rotch of Now Bedford, at a cost of $75,000. This estate is so val- 
uable that it is assessed at about $40 a foot for tax purposes. The Hollander Building, adjoining, another fine 
business structure, cost $100,000 to build. Tlie Hotel Thorndike, on Church Street, extending from Boylston 
to Providence Street, cost about $75,000. It is owned by the heirs of the late Dr. Thorndike. Many of the 
buildings between the hotel and the Square have been altered over for business purposes, and command hiah 
rents. 

Let the voyager continue his ride, or his walk along Columbus Avenue; in fact, explore the whole of the 
South Kiid, and he will be amazed to witness the transformations that have been effected within a life- 
time. Wliere the sea water once rolled unhindered in majestic waves there are beautiful, wide, well-shaded 
streets, lined with buildings varying from the plainest to the most splendid in architecture. On two corners of 
Columbus Avenue and Berkeley Street stand the handsome People's Church (Methodist Episcopal) and the 
equally attractive First Presbyterian Church, while to the riglit and to the left are costly apartment houses and 
mansions betokening affluence on the part of the occupants. Passing over the railroad bridge one sees on the 
corner of Clarendon Street the fine Columbus- Avenue Universalist Church, the pastor of which is the Rev. Dr. 
A. A. Miner. Farther on, and located on tlie corner of the avenue and West Rutland Square, is a picturesque 
structure with ivy-covered walls. This is the Union Church (Congregational Trinitarian). The visitor may 



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vary his journeyings as lie pleases and fiiul sonicthhig to interest him at every tnrn in noting the improvements 
efEected and the air of refinement which characterizes this residential section. If at Columbus Square he 
turns down Warren Avenue to reach the far-stretching Tremont Street, his attention will he arrested by the 
Church of the Disciples standing out prominently on the corner of Warren Avenue and West Brooldine Street, 
where the late Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke was for a long period the pastor. Beyond, on the corner of 




Paine Memorial Building, AppletonJ Street. 
West Canton Street, is the Warren Avenue Baptist Church, and on the corner of Warren Avenue and Dart- 
mouth Street stands one of the most noteworthy structures of its kind in the country— the building of the 
Latin and English High Schools, containing seventy-eight rooms and halls, drill hall, gynmasium, etc., stand- 
ing on an area of 423x220 feet. Beyond the avenne a little, and to the left on Dartmouth Street, is the old 
Rice School building, now occupied by the Normal School for girls, and lierein is a training-school. On the 



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Army and Navy Monument, Boston Common. 



60 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

lot adjoininn; the site of tlic Latin and English High School, and forming the corner of Montgomery and Clar- 
endon Streets, stands the Clai-endon Street Baptist Chnrch, of which the Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon is the pastor. 

Continuing the walk along ^Yar^en Avenue until Berkeley Street is reached, there, standing on the corner, 
at the left, is the handsome Berkeley Street Congregational Trinitarian Church, and on the opposite corner, 
to the right, the handsome Odd Fellows' Hall building, with its marble front. Near tlie latter, on Berkeley 
Street, is the famous Parker Memorial Building, with the Parker Memorial and Summer Halls; while alongside 
of this edifice is the Paine Memorial Building, with its Paine and Investigator Halls. Li the same vicinity are 
two notable circular buildings, with fortress-like entrances, — the Cyclorama of Gettysburg and the Cyclorama 
of the Battle of Bunker Hill, both of which are worth visiting. 

Turning into Tremont Street, and proceeding up it, the Clarendon Hotel and the St. Cloud Hotel are 
reached, and opposite the latter is Union Park Street, with a trim, neat parkway in the centre. Through this 
a view is gained of what was once Edward Everett Hale's South Congregational (Unitarian) Church, but now 
a Hebrew synagogue. Farther along Tremont Street, and at the corner of West Brookline Street, the Shaw- 
mut Congregational Church (Congregational Trinitarian) stands ; and when the corner of Pembroke Street is 
reached we get a glimpse, on looking down the latter street, of the imposing school building occupied by the 
Girl's Latin and the Girl's High School. Journeying farther up Tremont Street the corner of West Concord 
Street is reached, and here stands one of the most handsome churches of the Methodist denomination in the 
city. On Springfield Street, to the left of Tremont Street, is the Home for Aged Men, a most popular and 
well-managed institution. 

Reaching Chester Square, a pleasant little park is seen, intersected with walks ; and taking the centre 
path we reach Washington Street, where, on the left, between Springfield and Worcester Streets, looms up the 
large marble front building, the Commonwealth Hotel, recently remodelled at a cost of $100,000. Near it, 
standing in the midst of ample grounds on the corner of West Concord Street, is the building long occupied 
as the State Normal School for the training of teachers of drawing in the public schools of the State. The 
school is now located on Newbury Street. 

While here it is worth while to turn into East Concord Street, then into Harrison Avenue, and inspect 
the City Hospital buildings, covering the entire block on this avenue, between East Concord and Springfield 
Streets. Near these buildings, on East Concord Street, are seen the Homoepathic Hospital and the Massachu- 
setts Medical School. In the immediate neighborhood is the Church of the Immaculate Conception, possess- 
ing one of the richest and most impressive interiors of the Roman Catholic Churches in the city. Attached 
to it is the Boston College of the Roman Catholic body. 

Passing into East Newton Street the New England Conservatory of Music — once the St. James Hotel, 
and now one of the largest and most useful educational institutions in the country — presents itself for inspec- 
tion. This, started as a music school, is now a general college, with and without boarding conveniences. It 
is proposed to enlarge the building by making a large music hall, into which is to be placed the "Great Or- 
gan," long a noteworthy feature of the Boston Music Hall on Winter Street. In the rear of the Conservatory, 
and occupying the lot fronting on Washington Street, is the Old South Burying-ground, laid out in 1810. 
Here are two small, but much appreciated parks, lying on either side of AVashington Street, and extending 
from Newton to Brookline Streets. That on the east side of Washington Street is Franklin Park, and that on 
the west side Blackstone Park. 

Walking along Washington Street in the direction of Boylston Street, one recognizes vast changes in 
store and other buildings lining this magnificent thoroughfare that have been effected in recent years. Old 
buildings, of diminutive size, have given place to high, towering structures that are now busy, prosperous 
marts of trade. One of the most noteworthy edifices on this thoroughfare is the great Cathedral of the Holy 
Cross, located on the corner of Union Park Street. It is the largest and finest Roman Catholic edifice in the 
city. It covers more than an acre of ground and its style is of the early English Gothic, cruciform, with nave, 
transept, aisle and clerestory, the latter supported by two rows of clustered metal pillars. The total lengtli of 
the building is 364 feet; width at the transei)t, l70 feet; width of nave and aisles, 90 feet; height to the 
ridgepole, 120 feet. The entire interior is clear space, broken only by two rows of columns, extending along the 
nave, and supporting the central roof. The arch separating the spacious front vestibule from the cliurch is of 
bricks, taken from the ruins of the Ursuline Convent on Mt. Benedict in Somerville, which was burned by a 
mob on the night of August 11, 1834. The interior is very rich in decoration, and has pew accommodations 



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for 3,000 persons. Tliere ;irc two iiiuin towers in front, and a turret, all of uiuM|iial lieiglit, and all t(j be 
eventually surmounted by spires, tliat on the soutliwest corner to tlie height of 300 feet, and tliat on tlie 
opposite corner to 200 feet. At the rear of tlie Cathedral, on tlic corner of Union Parli Street and Harrison 
Avenue, is the residence of the Archbishop. 

Another notable edifice, erected in 1887, is the Grand Opera House, a building of great size on Washing- 
ton Street, just above Dover Street. At the corner of Wasliington and Dover Streets is the Grand Museum, 
opened in 1888. Tliis was formerly the Windsor Theatre, and was the first " up-town " theatre in the city 
proper. It was at about this spot that the old fortifications at the " Neck," we liave already spoken of, were 
located. On reaching Hollis Street it is well worth while paying a visit to the handsome theatre which has 
been erected on the site of the old Unitarian Church, and by the time Boylston Street — the starting point for 
the tour through the South End — has been reached, a most comprehensive idea of the wonders which have 
been wrought, and of the vast wealth now centred in the South End will have been gained. 



THE BUSINESS DISTRICT. 

The region between the North End and South End, the Common and the Harbor, is occupied by the 
" Business District," where the chief wholesale and retail shops are grouped, the theatres, the city and national 
buildings, and the older hotels. It is a region bristling with old time associations, is full of historic spots hal- 
lowed by the tread a»d blood of bygone heroes, and was the battle-ground where the forefathers dared to risk 
limbs and lives in resisting foreign oppression, to throw before them warlike shields, and, a la Macbeth, call to 
their political taskmaster to "Lay on, Macduff; and danin'd lie him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" It is 
a region where the "Cradle of Liberty" has vigilantly rocked, where justice has been gagged and unbound, 
where fortunes have been won and lost, where statesmen have harangued and poets sung, where fire swept off 
buildings of generations and men's indomitable pluck and busy hands reared edifices more majestic and beau- 
tiful tiian those which went before, and where modern Bostonians love to point 'with pardonable pride to past 
achievements. Here are "items of interest" that would fill volumes, but the limits of these pages neccssarlK 
enforce conciseness. 

Let us, however, take a hasty run through some of the principal avenues of this renowned, busy centre, 
and notice in brief some of the relics that have been preserved and link the past with the present, and jot 
down such chief improvements and alterations in latter days that catch the eye during tlie journey. Let our 
starting point be Scollay Square, through 
which Court Street passes, and from which 
Treniont Street at the south, and Cornhill 
at the north, begin. Here is a puzzle for 
a stranger to start with, for the Court 
Street which rims through the Square, and 
off which Brattle, and Hanover and Sud- 
bury Streets shoot, is only a one-sided 
street, the otjier side of the thoroughfare — 
a busy shopping quarter — being designated 
Tremont How, the why and wherefore of 
which it is difficult to discover. Scollay 
Square, now a great street railroad centre, 
takes its name from Scollay's Building, 
which for a long period stood in the middle 
of the Square, and had a streetway on each 
side of it. Scollay's Building was the last 
of a row of buildings, of wedge shape, that 
extended from the line between Treniont 
Street and Cornhill to Hanover Street. It was owned by William Sriill;iv, an apothecary, lience its name. 
It was removed in 1871, and the site was then officially given the iianic Scollav Siiuare, where, since Sep- 
temljcr 17, 1880, a find bronze statue of Governor Wintlirop has stood. 

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Square, we notice on the left corner that one of Boston's old landmarks has vanished. This was an old-time 
mansion, where Washington lodged on the occasion of his visit to Boston in IT 89, but for a long period prior 
to its demolition in 1883 was devoted to business. It was originally a three-story building, and another story 
was added when it ceased to be used as a residence. On the Court Street front of the building, between the 
second and third stories, was a stone tablet, bearing the inscription, "Occupied by Washington, October, 1789." 
For half a century the lower story was occupied by S. S. Pierce & Co., grocers, and in the upper rooms Daniel 
Webster, Harrison Gray Otis, Judge R. I. Burbank and other notabilities had their offices. On its site now 
stands a high, towering brick structure of many stories, named the Hemenway Building, erected at a cost of 
$230,000. The old grocery firm are the occupants of the lower part of the building, the upper floors of 
which are used for offices. On the opposite side of the street, on the corner of Tremont Street and Peuiber- 
ton Square, a number of old buildings, crowded with lawyers' offices, have within the past two or three years 
given place to a most imposing brick edifice of many floors, built at a cost of $75,000 by the heirs of Eben- 
ezor Chadwick, and named the Chadwick Building. Here, as of old, the lawyers still "do most congregate." 
Adjoining the Hemenway Building is the Boston Museum, erected in 1846 at a cost of a quarter of a million 
of dollars. It is the oldest of the existing theatres in the city, and on its stage have appeared the most cele- 
brated actors and artistes of the time. The granite building next beyond, at Nos. 30 and 32, extends back- 
ward into Court Square. It is jointly occupied by the Sufiolk County Probate Office and the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, which possesses a valuable library, a lot of rare relics, paintings, busts and unique curi- 
osities. 

Adjoining this building is the King's Chapel Burial Ground and the Old King's Chapel itself, occupying 
the corner of Tremont and School Streets. These arc among the most cherished landmarks in the city, and the 
chapel still preserves in its name the memory of the ancient time when Boston was loyal to England's King. 
Now a Unitarian church, it was the first Episcopal church erected in New England. In the year 1646 a few 
Episcopalian citizens timidly craved the Puritan authorities to allow them to worship with the Book of Com- 
mon Prayer " till inconveniences hereby be found prejudicial to the churches and colony ;" but the stern old 
Roundheads would have none of it. The chaplain of Charles Second's Commission, however, introduced the 
Episcopal ritual by royal order twenty years later, and in twenty years more a church was erected. On the 
same site the present King's Chapel was built, in 1749-54, a small and massive structure of blackish stone, 
whose lower windows, deep set and square, gave point to Matthew Byles's pun, that he had heard of the 
canons of the church, but had never seen the port-holes before. The interior, with its high, old-fashioned 
pews, its tall pulpit and sounding-board, its massive pillars, stained glass window, mural tablets and monu- 
ments, is remarkably attractive, and the organ, selected by Handel, the great composer, and sent hither from 
England in 1756, still serves the church. When the English army evacuated Boston in l775, the rector left 
also, and carried with him the vestments and registers and the communion service, a gift of the King, and 
amounting to 2800 ounces of silver. In 1787 this parish, under the lead of its rector, exchanged Episcopa- 
lianism for TJnitarianism, and King's Chapel became the first Unitarian Church on the American continent. 
The old burial ground is rich in coats-of-arms and quaint epitaphs on its monuments, and headstones, and here 
lie the remains of Winthrop, Shirley and others of the colonial governors, several of the early Puritan clergy, 
Isaac Johnson and other founders of Boston. Johnson's wife was Lady Arabella, daughter of the Earl of 
Lincoln, and the climate of New England proved too severe for both of them, for three months after her 
arrival she died at Salem, and a month later her husband was buried in the King's Chapel Burial Ground. In 
1878 the city discussed a proposal to utilize the sites of the chapel and burial ground for a new court-house, 
but old landmarks were permitted to remain untouched. 

In the rear of the chapel, and fronting on School Street, is the handsome City Hall, a costly white granite 
structure, in the Renaissance style of architecture, built in 1862-65. The city government, on its organiza- 
tion in 1822, was located in Faneuil Hall. Later the Old State House, at the head of State Street, was used 
as the City Hall, and in 1840, the old Court-House, which occupied the site of the present City Hall, became 
the seat of the civic government. When the present edifice was erected it was thought to be on a large scale, 
and sufficient for the needs of the city for many years; but it became overcrowded and for a long time past 
quite a number of departments have been located in other buildings in the immediate neighborhood. The 
building, which cost over half a million of dollars to erect, contains five floors and an attic, above which is a 
high louvre dome, surmounted by a balcony, from which rises a flag-staff 200 feet high. The attic and the 



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dome are utilized as the centre of the firc-alaiiu telegraph system which spreads all over the city, and the rest 
of the building is utilized for the ofhces of the municipality. The structure is handsome and substantial, and 
is elegant in its appointments throughout. In front of the building is a neatly kept lawn, and this is adorned 
on one side with a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and on the other with one of Josiah Quincy, the second mayor 
of the city (in 1823). Probably when the new Court-llousc, now being erected in Pemberton Square, has 
been completed, the present Court-llouse, on Court Square, in the rear of the City Hall, will be utilized for 
the enlargement of the latter. 

School Street (so called because of the old Latin school having been located here) is famous for its an- 
cient corner bookstore. It has stores of a varied character, and lawyers' offices in considerable number, and 
is noted as the locale of the. famous Parker Uouse, which, before its costlv enlargement, Dickens called the best 
hotel in America. Originally, it was a spacious six-story marble structure, and during the past four or five 
years it has been extended on f) the corner of Tremont Street, the front of the addition being also of marble 
and towering higher thin the jider part of the building The addition cost to construct o\er $100 000, ind 
it forms one of the most imposing atti actions on Tremont Stiett 




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Opposite King's Chapel, and on the corner of Tremont and Beacon Street, Messrs. Houghton & Dutton 
have, within the past three years, erected, as an addition to their extensive store, a nine-story, fire proof struct- 
ure at a cost of §190,000. On the opposite corner is the famous old Tremont House with heavy, dark granite 
walls, where Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, the Prince of Wales, Charles Dickens and other notables have so- 
journed. Dickens wrote of it — " It has more galleries, colonnades, piazzas, and passases than I can remem- 
ber, or the reader would believe." It has been recently considerably modernized. The heavy portico and 
flight of granite steps in front have been removed, and the office, reading-room, etc., brought down to the 
street level. It is said that Mr. Fred. L. Ames has acquired this property and purposes building upon its site 
a monster hotel in the near future. Adjoining the present building is the famous Old Granary Burying 
Ground, once a part of the Common. The title of the Old Granary Burying Ground was given to it because 
of its proximity to the old town granary, which stood where the Park Street Church now stands. More dis- 
tinguished persons have been buried here than in any other place in the city. Here are entombed the remains 
of nine governors of Massachusetts, two signers of the Declaration of Independence, six famous divines. 



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tlio victims of the Boston Massacro, Jolin ILincuek, Saiiiucl Adams, Peter Fancuil, raul Revere, Samuel 
Sewall, tlie parents of Benjamin Franlclin, and many oilier notable Americans. Until about sixteen rears an-o, 
the crowded sidewalk in front of the burying ground was partly occupied by a lino of noble elms, which 
were imported from England in 1672. To meet the demand of the street railways they were cut down at 
night, for the civic authorities feared the opposition of the people, who were indignant. Admission to the 
burying ground is by permit, obtained at the City Uall. On the side of this "God's Acre," is the Park Street 
Cluirch, built in 1809. It was the lirst Congregational Trinitarian Church established after Unitarianism had 
won over from orthodox ranks its principal members. With such persistent earnestness was Calvinism con- 
tended for from its pulpit that 
the "ungodly" of the other 
sects nick-named the locality 
"Bi-inistone Corner." It has 
now a large amd wealthy con- 
gregation. 

Ojiposite the Tremont 
House is a notable building, 
the Tremont Temple, sand- 
wiched between marts of trade. 
Its site was formerly occupied 
by the Tremont Theatre, in 
which Charlotte Cushman, the 
famous actress made her dehut 
on April 8, 183.5. lu 1843 the 
Baptists bought the building 
anil erected in its stead a Tem- 
ple, which was destroyed by 
tire, as was also its successor, 
the present structure having 
been erected iu ISTu. Il is the [ilace of worship of the Union Temple Free Church, the headquarters of the 
New England Baptists, and a popular place for public meetings. The main hall is one of the finest in the 
country, and contains an organ of great power and singul.ir beauty. The hall is 6G feet high and 122 x 72 feet 
in dimensions and has two galleries. There is seating accommodation for 2,600 persons. Beneath this hall is 
a smaller one, called Meionaon Hall, with a seating capacity of nearly one thousand. Farther along the street, 
and facing the Old Granary Burying Ground is the Horticultural Hall, a handsome granite edifice, standing 
between Montgomery Place and Bromfield Street. This is the headquarters of the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society. It contains offices and large, handsome halls for meetings, exhibitions, etc. During a fire which 
occurred on December 29, 1888, many valuable paintings of past presidents of the society were ruined. 

Bromfield Street is one of the many cross streets which connect Tremont and Washington Streets. It 
contains several publishing houses, oifioes, varied business stores, and a largely attended Methodist Episcopal 
Church, of which the Rev. G. A. Crawford is pastor. Some of the buildings adjoining the church have re- 
cently undergone extensive alterations and effected a marked improvement in the business aspect of the street. 
At the corner of Bromfield and Tremont Street is a handsome edifice, the Studio Building, devoted to offices, 
etc. It has quite recently been reconstructed to a considerable extent internally. Side by side with this 
building are art and other stores fronting on Tremont Street, and extending to the corner of Hamilton Place, 
whence Tremont Street is built up only on one side as far as where it is crossed by Boylston'Street, the other 
side of the thoroughfare being occupied by the Common. This length, during shopping hours, presents at 
all times an animated aspect, the broad sidewalk being at all times crowded with persons good-naturedly el- 
bowing their way through the moving throng. 

At the corner of Hamilton Place and in the " place " itself two magnificent buildings have been lately 
erected at a cost of about $225,000 by the heirs of Jonathan Phillips, and on the opposite side of the " place " 
most of the old buildings have been rebuilt. In the " place " is one of the entrances to the great Music Hall, 
another entrance being on Winter Street. It was built in 1852, and is almost entirely concealed by surround- 




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ing buildings and is devoid of Hrcliiteotural pretensions, it contains two nails, one seating 2600 and the other 
SOU persons. The main hall used to contain the largest and finest organ in the world, and it is said it will 
soon bo introduced into the New England Conservatory of Music on East Newton Street. The Mu.sic Ilall 
seems to have outlived its usefulness as the home of musicians, and of late years it has been occupied for all 
sorts of purposes, including fairs, public meetings, balls, cat and dog shows, foot races, walking and wrestling 
matches, beer garden, etc. More than once the idea has been entertained of demolishing the building to make 
way for business improvements and to extend Hamilton Place straight through to Washington Street. 

Near the corner of Winter Street and fronting on Treniont Street and the Common, is St. Paul's, a 
church of the Episcopal Communion, erected in 1819— "20, and built of dark granite, with a fine Ionic portico 
and colonnade of sandstone. The ceiling is panelled and cylindrical, and the chancel contains modern frescos 
and a brilliant stained window. Winter Street, like Temple Place and West Street, is a fa.shionable retail 
shopping centre, filled with elegant stores, many of which have been improved and enlarged in recent years. 
On the corner of Temple Place used to stand tiie Masonic Temple, always an attractive feature from the time 
of its erection in 1832 owing to its peculiar forn)ation. It was five stories high and was built of rough Quinev 
granite. The entrance was a low, broad Norman doorway, and the various floors were lighted by long arched 
windows. The building was surmounted by battlements and pinnacles and had two towers, each sixteen feet 
square and ninety-five feet high. The Masonic body held their lodges here until they erected their new Tem- 
ple on the corner of Boylston Street, and tlien it was for years occupied as the United States Circuit Court. 
Three or four years ago the property was purchased by R. H. Stearns & Co., and the building was raised 
bodily and two .stories built under it, while its outward aspect as well as its interior arrangements was entirely 
changed. It is now devoted to the dry-goods business. 

From West Street to Boylston Street high, imposing buildings iiave been erected on the sites of old 
houses, and this quarter is now chiefly occupied by the Boston Conservatory of Music, and by so many piano 
manufacturing concerns as to have earned the name of "Piano Row." The new Masonic Temple, on the 
corner of Tremont and Boylston Street, built in 1867, is seven stories high, with octagonal towers rising 120 








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foct. It contains three magnificent halls for meetings, one being furnished with splendor in the Corinthian 
st}le, anotlicT in the Egyptian, and the third in the Gothic. 

We now turn into Washington Street, and retrace our steps northward along this busy thoroughfare, 
filled at all hours of the day with a seething mass of human beings. As we turn from Boylston Street 
(anciently called Frog Lane) into Washington Street, a tablet, with a representation of a spreading tree, 
will be observed on the front of the building on the east side of Washington Street, corner of Essex. 
Here stood the "Liberty Tree" under which the "Sons of Liberty" were organized in 1765, and 
under which meetings were held to give expression of opposition to the revenue oppressions of the English 
government. When a meeting was intended to be held the signal was given by placing a flag in the branches 
of the tree, and the flag is still preserved in the Old South Church. In the siege of Boston the tree was pur- 
posely destroyed by the British, to the grief of the people. 

The present Washington Street has always been the chief artery of the town, thougli it lias not always 
been known by the name it now bears nor was it formerly so far-stretching in its length. The name Wash- 
ington was given in honor of General Washington on the occasion of his visit to the town in 1789. At first 
the present Washington Street was a series of streets from down-town to the Roxbury line, known as Cornhill, 
Marlborough, Newbury, Orange and Washington; and it was not until 1824 that the old names were dropped, 
and the entire thoroughfare named as now. Until 1873-4, the down-town end of Washington Street was at 
the present Cornhill and Old Dock Square , in that year, as noted elsewhere, the street was extended through 
to Ilayinarket Square, from which point it now stretches through the city and the Roxbury district to the 
Dedhain boundary. A few doors north of Boylston Street corner we enter the theatre district, where are the 
Park, Globe, Boston and Bijou theatres, the neighborhood of which presents a very brilliant appearance at 
evening or just after matinees. In the bend of the street, near the Boston Theatre, is the Adams House, a 
splendid hotel built in 1883 on the site of the old Adams House, wliicli itself long stood on the site of the 
Lamb Tavern, whence the first stage to Providence started before the days of railroads. Recently the pro- 
prietors of this house have acquired, on a lease for fifteen years at a rental of $30,000 a year, two estates on 
which they have erected an extension of the hotel. In this immediate neighborhood are the great retail dry- 
goods houses of the city, notably those of R. H. White & Co. and Jordan, Marsh & Co., with their acres of 
floorage space. Congregated about these are stores where every variety of merchandise is to be obtained ; and 
the sidewalks are filled from morning till night with an ever-moving throng, while the carriage-way is frequent- 
ly choked with vehicular traffic. Much of the property hero was destroyed in the great fire of 1872, of which 
more anon. Most of the buildings lining this thoroughfare have, during the past sixteen or eighteen years 
been greatly altered or entirely rebuilt upon an expensive and ornamental scale ; but the street is too narrow 
for these improvements to be seen to advantage and also for the accommodation of great traific constantly 
found here. 

Farther on we come to the corner of Milk Street, where stands the lamous.old South Church, that relic 
of revolutionary times, that tells on a tablet in its tower that the church was erected, first, in 1669, rebuilt in 
1729, and that it was "desecrated by the British in l775," by using it as a riding school and liquor saloon. 
In those troublous times, however, neither the British nor the colonists hesitated to use the churches for the 
exigencies of war, for of the latter it is said that they took away the lead pipes from the then church at Cam- 
bridge and converted them into bullets with which to kill the armed hosts of England. The site of the old 
church was originally occupied by the house of Governor Winthrop, who lived and died here. The property 
Tvas bequeathed by Mrs. Mary Norton (wife of Rev. John Norton) for the erection of a meeting-house. In 
the days immediately prior to the Revolution, meetings of citizens were held here to discuss their grievances, 
and such meetinos British officers sought to repress. One such meeting was held here when the famous Bos- 
ton Tea Party, which culminated in the Revolution, occurred on December 16, 1773. Paul Revere, Samuel 
Adams and about twenty other kindred patriots, had been concocting a plan for some time to rid the port of 
some hateful tea chests that were at the wharves, or soon to arrive there — hateful because of the obnoxious tax 
of the British government, imposed upon it after the repeal of the " odious Stamp Act." It is said that Sam 
Adams had contrived this meeting to draw off the attention of the English officers from the sclieme to destroy 
the tea brought over by the ships Dartmouth and Eleanor and the brig Beaver, then at Griffin's (now Liver- 
pool Wharf). When the meeting opened, British officers, with wonted effrontery, crowded the pulpit, so that 
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pulpit, whicli lie did. Daring the proceedings, John Rowe asked, " Who knows how tea will mingle with salt 
water?" a question which was greeted with shouts of laughter. About sunsot an Indian yell was heard out- 
side the church, and a hand of men, disguised as Moliawk Indians filled the street. The meeting at once broke 
up; and the Indians in disguise marched down to the ships, whence they threw into the harbor 342 chests of 
tea. After the war, the church was used for divine service until the society erected the Now Old South 
Church in the Back Bay district. The old edifice just missed falling a prey to the great fire in 1872, and wss 
tlien for a time used as a post-office. It is now used for the exhibition of historic relics, lectures, etc., and 
the basement is occupied as an old bookstore. In the vicinity of the clinrch on the opposite side of the 
street, formerly stood the Old Province House, of 
whose quaintness Hawthorne wrote so charmingly. 
It was built in 1679, and became the vice-regal 
residence of Shutc, Burnet, Shirley, Pownall, Sir 
William Howe, and a long line of British govern- 
ors, when the court ceremonies of the province 
were conducted within its halls, and the royal pro- 
clamations were read from its high balcony. The 
present Province Court was the way to the stables. 
From its high estate the vice-regal residence de- 
scended .to the level of a shabby gin-mill and 
concert hall, and finally to that of a cheap lodging- 
house, while it became hidden almost from view 
to pedestrians on Washington Street by the tall 
buildings erected about it. Now, a handsome 
six-story hotel, to be named the Boston Tavern, is 
being erected on its site. In the same vicinit}', 
too, is the great publishing centre, and the oldest 
bookstore in the city. Book houses are plentiful, 
and the leading newspaper offices are crowded 
into this locality. Opposite the church, in Milk 
Street, is the Post building, occupying the site of 
the house in which Benjamin Franklin was born. 
Near too, on Washington Street, is the Trunscript 
building, and farther north, crowded near each 
other, are the offices of the Herald, Journal, Globe, 
Advertiser, and Record, all occupying tall, costly, 
well-appointed buildings, the Globe building being 
the latest accession and which is a fitting monu- 
ment to its enterprise. The Globe Newspaper 
Company is comprised of some of Boston's most 
hio-lily esteemed and public-spirited citizens,with Mr. 
Ed. Prescott as president and cashier, and Colonel 
Charles H. Taylor as manager. This represen- 
tative and progressive Newspaper Company are 

proprietors of the daily, Sunday, and weekly Globe, which are the recognized leading newspapers of New 
England. The Globe Newspaper Company was duly incorporated in 1S72 under the laws of Massachusetts. 
It was reorganized in 1878, with a paid-up capital of §125,000, and now its daily and Sunday issues of the 
Globe have a larger circulation than any other Boston newspaper. The first editor of the Globe was Maturin 
M. Ballon, and the first paper, issued March 4, 1872, contained eight pages of seven columns, the price being 
four cents. He was succeeded, in August, 1873, by Colonel Chas. H. Taylor, who has been the editor and 
manager of the Globe from that time until the present. The success achieved has been due to his enterprise 
and industry. The building is one of tlie finest and largest in Boston, and was built expressly for the Globe. 
The building is admirably equipped with all modern appliances, including elevators, electric lights, etc., and no 







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pains or expense have been spared to make this establishment complete in every detail. In the printing-rooms 
are three splendid single and two double Iloe presses, which are able to print 1400 papers in a minute. The 
machinery is driven by two superior 125 horse-power steam-engines, and the total number of persons em- 
ployed in the various departments is about 500 There are likewise two elevator and electric-light engines on 
the premises, of the latest type. Eight editions of the Globe are turned out daily, which consume fifteen tons 
of paper. The daily, Sunday, and weekly Globe are got up in the highest style of the typographical art. 
An able and superior stafE of editorial writers, reporters, and correspondents is employed. It has regular letters 
from its own correspondents abroad, and carefully covers all political, local, and foreign news ; while at tlie same 
time it gives ample descriptions of races, base-ball, and all kinds of manly sports and pastimes. Its editorials 
are able, crisp, direct to the point, and treat all matters of interest in an impartial and fearless manner. The 
circulation of the Sunday Globe in November was 127,02.3, and the daily Globe 148,710. Its advantages as a 

splendid advertising medium have been recognized 
very generally by all classes of the community ; and 
in this line it conducts the largest and most lucra- 
tive business in Boston. In consequence of its 
large size and vast amount of original and able read- 
ing-matter, it is not only the cheapest, but un- 
questionably the best, paper in the city. Colonel 
Chas. H. Taylor, the manager, was born in Charles- 
town, Mass., and during the civil war was a private 
in the 38th Mass. Vol. Infantry. He served one 
year, and was seriously wounded at the battle of 
Port Hudson, Miss., and eventually retired from the 
service, for disability. He was private secretary to 
Governor Clafflin, and was also clerk of the House 
of Representatives. Colonel Taylor is a popular 
member of the Press, Temple, Central, and Algonquin 
Clubs, etc., and is one of Boston's highly esteemed 
and public-spirited citizens. The circulation of the 
Globe is steadily increasing, not only in Boston, but 
in all sections of New England, and its present pros- 
perous status augurs well for the future. In 
"Printing House Square" — and Dock Square, are 
many old-time buildings, relieved by but few new 
edifices, prominent among which are Rogers' 
and Sear.s' Buildings, magnificent structures at 
the head of State Street. The whole of the 
buildings, except a few on the east side that line the remaining length of Washington Street from Dock 
Square to Haymarket Square, have been built or rebuilt since this section of the street was opened, and no city 
in the country can show a finer range of business blocks than those to be seen here. Dock Square, on the 
site of the old Town Dock, which was spanned by a swing bridge at the foot of Merchants' Row, is now a 
busy centre, and standing in the middle of it is a statue of Samuel Adams erected in 1880. From here is 
seen the front of Faneuil Hall, and off Washington Street, at this point, Cornhill and Brattle Street swing round 
to Scollay Square. The famous hostelry, Quincy House, stands on the corner of Brattle Street and Bratt.'e 
Square ; and in this square stood formerly a churck- which the British turned into a barrack during the siege 
of Boston. Cornhill, renowned for its old bookstores and up which we must now pass once more to Scollay 
Square, was so named in 1828, having previously been called Market Street, because it lead to the market, the 
original Cornhill being at the foot of Washington Street before its extension. Having returned to Scollay 
Square, we must now prepare for a journey, through the principal sections of the great 




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of the city. These centres ure confiiieil l)otween the liarbor on the one liand, and tlie streets of Essex, Wash- 
ington, and Hanover on the other, and lie chiefly south of Blackstone Street. A large portion of this area is 
frequently spoken of as the "Burnt District," laid waste by the "Great Fire" in 1872. At 1.15 p.m. on 
November 9th in that year a fire broke out in a building on the corner of Summer and Kingston Streets, and 
spread with terrible speed, in spite of all the efforts that could be brought from far and near to suppress it, 
and, before the conflagration was quenched, it had spread over sixty -five acres, and destroyed about eighty 
million dollars' worth of property and many lives, leaving the entire district bounded by Summer, Washington, 
Milk, and Broad Streets a smoking chaos of ruins. This was a terrible blow to Boston, but the city soon re- 
covered from it, and tlie "Burnt District" is to-day a section of imposing and sub.stantial warehouses, its 
appearance greatly improved, and tlie wealth and convenience of this part of the city thereby increased. The 
financial centre is circumscribed by Washington, State, Broad, and Milk Streets. The great dry-goods and 
clothing quarter covers a large area. The wholesale trade is chiefly centred in Devonsliire, between Milk and 
Franklin Streets, Franklin and its lateral streets, Winthrop Square and Otis Street, Summer and its lateral 
streets. The great woolhouses are located principally on Federal, Pearl, and High Streets; the boot, shoe, 
and leather, and hardware trades on Pearl, High, Purchase, lower part of Summer, South, Bedford, and parts 
of Lincoln and contiguous streets; the paper trade, on Federal Street and vicinity; crockery, on Federal and 
Franklin Streets; drugs, on Milk Street and vicinity; grocery trade in neighborhood of Broad, Commercial 
India streets ; fish, on Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue ; flour and grain, on Commercial Street, near 
the principal wharves ; fruit and produce, Merchants' Row, Chatham and South Market, Commercial, Com- 
merce, and Clinton Streets ; and provisions, on streets about Fancuil Hall Market and the new meat market on 
Mercantile Wharf. 

As we start from Scollay Square, in the direction of State Street, the County Court-house, on Court Street 
(called Queen Street in pre-Revolution days), claims attention. It is a ponderous, gloomy granite building, with 
a heavy Doric portico in front, and formerly had a similar portico at the rear end of the building, facing the 
City Hall. Here numerous courts are held, and, as a consequence of its inadequacy to meet the demands upon 
it, the new court-house on Pemberton Square is being erected. On the old court-house, which was erected in 
1836, an intense excitement centred many years ago, when the fugitive slave cases were under trial; and the 
citizens of Boston, indignant that men should be carried from their free soil into a terrible and degrading ser- 
vitude, came near rebelling against the United States and rescuing the doomed negroes by force of arms. In 
the vicinity of this seat of justice are the Tudor Buildings, on the site of the liome of Colonel William Tudor, 
a statesman and jurist of manj'- years ago. In this neighborhood, also, Smibert, the canny Scot, painted 
" Landskips," more than a century and a half ago ; and Franklin printed his pioneer newspaper ; and Captain 
Kidd, the famous pirate, was jailed; and Sir John Leverett, the friend and veteran of Cromwell, resided. 
Standing near the Court-house is the famous Young's Hotel, adjoining which is the splendid Sears' Building, 
occupying tlie corner of Court and Washington Streets. 

Directly opposite this, occupying the head of State (once King) Street, is the old State-house, occupying 
the site of what was originally the old village market-place. A town-house was first erected here in 1038, and in 
1748 a new building arose on the same ground, which was used for the Provincial Council, and also at differ- 
ent times for an cjfchange, a post-otflce, an engine-house, barracks for British troops, and a capitol in which the 
State Legislature met for fifteen years. Here, according to John Adams, " Independence was born ;" here the 
death of George II. and the accession to the throne, of George III. were proclaimed ; here Generals 
Howe, Clinton and Gage held a council of war before the battle of Bunker Hill ; and a year later the Declara- 
tion of Independence was read from the balcony to the rejoicing soldiers and people below ; and the consti- 
tution of Massachusetts was planned; and Governor Hancock gave a grand reception to the Count d'Estaing; 
and Washington reviewed the militia and was welcomed by the people. The quaint old steeple lost part of its 
height and the lion and unicorn disappeared from the angles of the roof after the Revolution and were burned; 
but otherwise the building maintained its original aspect. Some six or seven years ago the building was com- 
pletely restored, to preserve its historic features, even to the fixing of the lion and unicorn on the west front, a 
fact which raised the ire of Iri.sh citizens, who could recognize nothing even that was good out of the land of 
the hated Anglo-Saxon. Attempts were made to destroy these emblems in secret, but too strict a watch was kept 
on the toothless lion and blind unicorn, and they were permitted tc remain ; still the grumblers declined to be 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



quiet until sometliing of a counteracting cliaracter was put on the Washington Street end of the building, to 
balance it, to hold it down, or something of that kind. A gorgeous gilt eagle was accordingly spread on the 
outer wall, acconipanied witli the State's motto in gold characters on a broad ribbon — " Ense Petit Placidam 
Sub Libertate Quietcm." And it did " quiet 'em ;" so the old lion and unicorn are now at peace. It was near 
here — on the corner of State and Exchange Streets, where the Custom-house then stood — that the Boston 
Massacre, described elsewhere, occurred. On the building now on the corner the Bostonian Society, in 1886 
placed a tablet bearing this inscription: "Opposite this spot was shed the first blood of the American Rev- 
olution, March 5, lYVO." On the opposite side of the street, near the Old State-house, the first church was 
built, iu Boston. Brazer's Biiildiiig now occupies the site, and near this is the oflice of the Traveller news- 
paper. 

On State Street are numerous banks and insurance offices, and the headquarters of many mining and man- 

ufacturing companies and railways, shipping-offices, etc. The 

Merchants' Exchange, the Board of Trade, and the Stock 
Exchange are in the building No. 53, opposite 'Change Avenue. 
Great changes are projected here. The entire lot of buildings 
extending from the Treraont Bank Building to Kilby Street 
will soon bs torn down to make room for a new Stock Ex- 
change, to be erected at a cost of millions of dollars. Messrs. 
Peabody & Stearns have for some time been engaged in making 
designs, and the plans, sections, and elevations are completed. 
Builders will soon be at work, and the building they will 
raise will be the largest of its kind in the city. It will be 
ten stories high above the basement, and in parts eleven 
stories high. From the sidewalk on the State Street front to 
the cornice there will be a height of about 160 feet. It will 
-Tzr have a frontage of 171 feet on State Street from the Trcmont 
Bank Building (which is five stories high) to Kilby Street, 
about the same on Kilby Street, and 52 feet on Exchange 
Place and Post-office Avenue, the last named leading from 
Congress Street, just in the rear of the Treinont Bank building. Stone will be the material for the two lower 
stories, the rest being of brick, with stone trimmings. The interior finish will bt, plain but very serviceable, in 
marble, natural woods, and plastered walls suitably tinted. Steam heat, open fire-places, electric lights, and all 
the modern conveniences, together with six fast-running elevators, will make the building desirable in every 
way for the purposes to which it is to be put. The main entrance will be on State Street, A broad corridor, 
finished in marble, will lead direct to the entrance of the Stock Exchange Hall, and another corridor, at right 
angles to it, will lead from the Kilby Street entrance to an entrance at Post-office Avenue, a short alley lead- 
ino- from Congress Street. Near the junction of these corridors will be the large main staircase. In the base- 
ment, at the right of the main" entrance on State Street, will be rooms and vaults for a safe-deposite company. 
In front is the large banking-room, 50 by 60 feet, and in the rear the vaults for about 10,000 boxes of varying 
sizes, as well as " coupon-rooms " for the patrons of the company. A novelty here is a number of coupon- 
rooms, eight feet square. At the left of the main entrance, and along tlie Kilby Street front, are half a dozen 
offices of varying size, the largest being the one on the corner, and this has a separate entrance at the intersec- 
tion of the streets. In the wing of the building extending to Exchange Place are a couple of desirable offices 
fronting on that street, and several smaller ones. The Boston Stock Exchange, as already stated, will occupy 
a hall in the first story under a tw.enty years' lease. This hall will have an area of about 5000 feet, and will be 
in the Exchange Place wing. Here also are three large rooms for "puts" and "calls," and the bond and tel- 
ephone rooms. The Stock Exchange wilt have a private entrance on Exchange Place. The main portion of 
this floor, with frontage on State and Kilby Streets, will be devoted to banking and insurance offices, which 
will be subdivided to suit tenants. The arrangement of the second story is very similar to the first, the E.x- 
cliange Place wing being taken up by the Stock Exchange Hall, which is two stories in height, and the State 
and Kilby Street fronts being divided up into banking and insurance offices. Upon this story begins the 
light-well, 116x38 feet, situated west of the central stairway and over the safe-deposit vaults, which, as well 




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as the rear of the offices on the first story, are lighted by it. This well extends from the Trcmont Bank Build- 
ing, parallel with State Street, and is nearly as broad as Kilby Street. By means of it, an additional row of 
well-lio-hted offices is obtained in the upper stories. Above the second story the arrangetnent of the floors 
will be substantially alike, as represented in the third-floor plan. Tiie floors will be devoted to offices, ranging 
in size from 12x20 to 20x20 feet, which are reached by broad corridors following the several frontages of the 
building. The central stairway stops at the second story, and from thence upward there are flights of stairs 
in front and rear, directly opposite the elevator- wells. The third and the stories above have toilet-rooms over 
those in the basement, thus concentrating the plumbing as far as possible. There are 350 offices in the bnild- 
insr. Changes in the floor plans will be freely made to suit tenants. In the interior finish, no elaborate effects 
will be sought, and the exterior convenience has nowhere been sacrificed for architectural effect. Nevertheless, 








g Hotel Vendome, 



the building will be an exceedingly handsome addition to the business blocks of Boston. It will be a year 
and a half before the building will be completed; and the cost of building and land will probably be upwards 
of $3,000,000. 

On the north side of State Street the Hospital-Life Building has just been completed at a cost of $800,000, 
and opposite Merchants' Row tliere is now nearing completion a nine-story building erected by Mr. J. N. 
Fiske at a cost of half a million of dollars. State Street is, in fact, becoming a region of tall, costly buildings, 
and has changed much of its aspect of a dozen years or so ago. 

Proceeding through Merchants' Row, the historic Fancuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty," and the New 
Faneuil Hall, or Quincy Market, are reached. The latter, built in 1825-26, is a granite structure two stories 
high, and covers 27,000 feet of land. The centre part rises to a height of 77 feet, and is ornamented by a 
graceful dome. The height of the wings on either side of the central part is thirty feet. The market is on the 
lower floor, the stalls are well arranged, and the place is always a busy one and worthy of a visit. The upper 
floor is used for office.s, and a large hall under the dome is occupied by the Boston Chamber of Commerce, for 
whom it is proposed to erect, at an early date, a separate building. Faneuil Hall was built in 1742, and pre- 
sented to the town by Peter Faneuil, a prosperous Huguenot merchant, as a market and public hall ; and the 



72 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

present city charter contains a provision forbidding its sale or lease. The lower floor is occupied as the market. 
and the npper floor as a hall, which contains no seats, and which gives standing room to thousands of people. 
In the galleries, however, there are settees. The platform is spacious, the walls are adorned with copies of 
large and valuable historic oil-paintings, the originals being deposited in the Art Museum for safe keeping; and 
the quaint and antiquated architecture is very interesting. When any great popular question takes definite 
form, the people say, " Let's go down and rock the cradle," and assemble in the hall, to be addressed by their 
favorite orators and leaders. It was so before the Revolution; it has been so since. It lias, in fact, during its 
history, been used for all sorts of purposes. The coronation of George III. was celebrated in it, pirates and 
robbers have been tried in it, and the Earl of Elgin was feasted there. " Every political party in the country 
has had its use at one time or another. Anarchists, Socialists, Fenians, and Land-leaguers have spoken there. 
The Chinese have been told to go, and the poor Indian pitied by large audiences. The Constitution of U. S. 
has been styled ' a covenant with death and a league with hell' in this hall." In June, 1887, the British 
Charitable Society obtained the consent of the Maj'or and Board of Aldermen for its use on the occasion of a 
l>anquet on the 21st of that month to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. It provoked a howl among the 
Irish residents against such a " desecration " of the hall, the use of which they themselves secured to protest 
against the " desecration " and to say hard things against Britisher, generally. Tlie Aldermen reconsidered 
their resolution granting the use of the hall, but without change, and the Britishers held their banquet, and 
that a lively one, for a mob of about 15,000 persons gathered about the hall ready to turn the " cradle " over. 
The whole police force, of over 800 men, were called out, armed with revolvers, and 400 were stationed around 
the hall. Several of the militarj- companies were under arms, and Gatling guns were placed in position to rake 
the mob if necessity required. Several persons were seriously injured, and during the night an attempt was 
made to pull, with ropes, the lion and unicorn from off the Old State-house. The occasion served as a lesson to 
the English, who had generally been indifferent to naturalization ; they formed the British-American Associa- 
tion, with branches all over the country, the object of which was to encourage Englishmen to become American 
citizens and to vote against class rule. 

North Market and South Market Streets, Chatham, Clinton, and Commerce Streets, rnnning parallel with 
Faneuil Hall and Quincy Markets, and Blackstone, Fulton, and Commercial, and other neighboring streets are 
great centres for the wholesale trade in all kinds of food products. The conversion of the so-called Mercantile 
Wharf property, at the foot of Clinton Street and on Atlantic Avenue, into a country market, as well as a whole- 
sale meat market, has attracted provision-dealers aud grocerymen to that section of the city, and naturally the 
wholesale grocers in that vicinity, and especially on Commercial Street, have pushed their trade. Below this 
market, on Atlantic Avenue, is the Fish Market, another attraction to dealers. Property between Richmond 
Street and Faneuil Hall Market has improved recently in value, in keeping with the improved surrounding con- 
ditions. On Fulton Street the wholesale fruit trade is advancing, and tall warehouses have been and are being 
erected. To meet the exigencies of the shipping trade, costly warehouses have been erected along Atlantic 
Avenue, from near the corner of which, and extending almost close up to the Custom-house, on State Street, a 
magnificent, extensive granite block of spacious warehouses of pleasing exterior has been put up. 

The Custom-house was built between 1837 and 1849, at a cost of over one million dollars, and rests on 
ground reclaimed from the sea, the foundation being composed of a deep bed of granite masonry, laid in 
hydraulic cement on the heads of three thousand piles. It is a massive granite structure, built to stand for 
generations. It is Doric in style, cruciform in shape, and fire-proof in constrnction, with thirty-two fluted 
monolithic columns, weighing forty-two tons each, fronting its stately porticoes and extending around the 
sides, surmounted by classic cornices and pediments, and sustaining a roof and dome of granite slabs. Lender 
the dome is a handsome rotunda, surrounded bv twelve tall Corinthian columns of white marble. This build- 
ing is one of the principal attractions on State Street, which maintains its old-time supremacy as the financial 
centre, though in some of its off streets, notably Devonshire, Congress, and Kilby Streets, banks and brokers' 
and insurance offices are to be found in great numbers. These are located in buildings of large size and of 
great architectural beauty. Congress, Devonshire, Milk, and Water Streets, at their crossings, form Post-office 
Square, wherein stands the Government Building, an immense Init very oraamental pile of Cape Ann granite. 
The erection of the building was begun in lS7l and some fourteen or fifteen years elapsed before it was en- 
tirely completed, the cost being upwards of six millions of dollars. 

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both for avcliitectural effect nml utility. On llie soiitii side of the squ.'ire is a niagniticcnt white marble build- 
injT, with a majestie clock-tower. This is by some considered the liandsomest block in New England and it 
cost $900,000 to build. It is owned and occupied by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. The 
tower is surmounted by gilded crests and an iron flag-staff, and the height from the street to the top of the flag- 
staff is 234 feet. At a height of 198 feet from the sidewalk is a balcony on the tower; and from this balcony 
a charmLng view of the city and liarbor is to be obtained. Adjoining, and occupying the corner of Congress 
Street, is tlie handsome building of the New England Mutual I^ife Company, erected -at a cost of $1,000,000. 
In the basement of the building are the extensive fire and burglar-proof vaults and the superb reading- 
room of the Security Safe Vaults Co. From the roof of tliis building a fine view is to be obtained. A 
few yards away, occupying the corner of Devonshire and Milk Street, is the splendid building of the Equitable 




Boylstori Street and Copley Square, 



Life Assurance Society of New York, built in 1873 at a cost of between one and two millions of dollars. In 
188.5-86 the building was extended, and its Milk-street fagade altered, at an immense outlay of capital. It 
stands on the site of the house of Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
Within about a stone-throw from here, and bounded by Milk Street and Kilby Street, is Liberty Square, 
whereon stands an immense, imposmg, solidly built business structure, presenting a rounding front on Kilbv 
Street, and possessing a peculiar, dome-like roof. This is the Mason Building, occupied by banks and offices. 
Contiguous thereto are the great wholesale trade thoroughfares of Broad Street (opened in 1806 and originally 
called Flounder Lane) and India Street (opened in the following year for the East India trade). 

Nearly opposite the Milk-street end of Mason Building, we enter Oliver Street and the " Burnt District," 
and by way of this street attain Fort Hill Square, where used to stand Fort Hill, one of the three noted hills of 
"Treamount." Half a century ago this was an aristocratic residential quarter. The hill has been carried away; 
and the work of doing this was started in 1869, and continued for years. A park occupied the summit of the 
hill, on whicli at one time were fortifications. Within the fort here Sir Edmund Andros, in 1689, sought 
shelter from, and was subsequently surrendered to, the enraged colonists, whose rights he had usurped. A neat 
circular grass-plat occupies the centre of Fort Hill Square, now the hiirhcst ]ioint of the liill. From liere tlie 



74 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

entire area, stretchina; to Essex and Washington Streets on tlic one hand, and from Atlantic Avenue to Milk 
Street on the other, is occupied by Oliver, Pearl, Franklin, Purchase, Congress, Devonshire, Summer, Bedford, 
Kingston, Arch, Chauncey, and Hawley Streets and Winthrop Square; and here are centred the great wool, boot, 
shoe and leather, hides, fur, oil, dry -goods, paper, hardware, and crockery jobbing-houses. This was the area swept 
and laid waste by the great fire of 1872. Here are now to be found some of the finest specimens of modern 
architecture; and no business section of any of unr American cities presents more solid and attractive features 
than this one does. The buildings are palatial in character, and new structures are continually arising and 
others being altered and extended. From the corner of Congress Street down to the property of the New 
York & New England Railroad, adjoining its passenger station, there is a row of six magnificent blocks of 
business buildings of recent erection the equal of which it would be difficult to match in the country. Five of 
them are occupied by extensive wool firm, and the sixth for other kinds of business. They aie all six stories 
in height, of enough difference in facade to break up tlie monotony of equality in other respects. They are 
of solid and substantial construction, and have passageways on the sides and rears for receiving and ship[>ing, 
which preclude the necessity of blocking sidewalks and stopping travel, as is too frequently the case in all cities. 
These buildings cost $411,000 to erect. On one corner of Purchase and Pearl Streets formerly stood a Pro- 
testant Church, which subsequently became a Catholic Church, and now it has been replaced, at a cost of $60,- 
000, by a handsome si.x-story business building. On the opposite corner stand the remains of an old building 
that escaped the fire. This lot and one on the corner of Oliver ?nd Purchase Street, are the only two which re- 
main unimproved in the " Burnt District." The prospectus of the year 1889 indicates a large increase in build- 
ing operations within the city proper, as well as the outlying districts. Plans now matured and presented, but 
for which permits have not yet been issued, are for some of the most palatial business structures, which will 
rival, if not surpass, any now erected in the Union. 

THE BRIGHTON DISTRICT 

constitutes the 25th ward of the city, and was annexed to Boston in 1873, and increased the city's dimensions 
by 2277 acres. The situation is one of the finest in the vicinity of Boston. The neighborhood generally is 
one of high lands, possessing fine facilities for drainage, and abounding in the finest locations for dwelling pur- 
poses to be found anywhere. A great feature of the Brighton District is Chestnut Hill Reservoir and the 
parkways about it. The construction of the reservoir was begun in 1865, and the city of Boston became pos- 
sessed of 212f acres of land, the work costing about $120,000 before it was finished. It is, in fact, a double 
reservoir, divided by a water-tiglit dam into two basins of irregular shape. Their capacity is 730,000,000 gallons, 
and the water- surface is 123^ acres. A magnificent driveway, varying from 60 to 80 feet in width, surrounds 
the entire work. In some parts, the road runs quite close to the eml)ankment, separated from it by only a 
smooth, gravelled walk. 

The splendid driveway around the reservoir is reached from Boston by the Brighton Road, which is a 
continuation of Beacon Street, and a noted trotting and driving course that at almost all seasons in the year 
is, especially on afternoons, crowded with gay equippages, worth coming from afar to see. Brighton can also 
be reached by the Boston & Albany Railroad, and by horse and electric cars. 

Originally, Brighton formed a part of Cambridge, and was known as Little Cambridge. It became a 
separate town in 1807, and remained so until it was absorbed by Boston, in 1873. The elevated lands of 
Brighton afford charming views, and the streets are pleasant and shady. Brighton has long been noted for its 
extensive abbatoirs ; and persons who know little about the place have pictured its streets as being crowded 
with cattle and hogs, and as being ill-smelling. The abbatoirs, however, are situated near the line of the Bos- 
ton & Albany Railroad ; and while thousands of cattle, sheep, and pigs are slaughtered here weekly, so retired 
are the slaughter-houses that the most refined inhabitant of Brighton may abide here in happy ignorance of 
their presence. 

Brighton contains many beautiful mansions. Within the last few years, building operations have been 
active, land has increased in value, the population has multiplied; and it is predicted that the range of 
hills in this District, running southwest from Covey Hill, and including the latter, \vill in time be the "court 
end" of Boston. The opening up of Commonwealth Avenue, from Arlington Street to Chestnut Hill Reservoir 
— four and three quarters miles in length, — a,nd also of Beacon Street, thus offering tlie finest faf ilities for travel, 
brought much low-j)riced farm lands into the m;u-ket for building purposes. The route from the city proper to 



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this section is a magnificent series of pa.ks ; and in the District itself are several fine parks, in the improvement 
of which considerable expense has been incurred. On Brighton Square is a splendid branch of the Boston Pub- 
lic Library. This branch was originally founded in 1864 as the Ilolton Library, by the town of Brighton ; and on 
the annexation of the town the library became a branch of the now main library of Boston. The building is a 
very convenient one and well-stocked with books. Brighton was one of the first places in the State to erect a 
monument to the soldiers and sailors who fell in the War of the llebelliou. The monument, a very handsome 
one, stands in Evergreen Cemetery, 
and was dedicated July 26, 1866. 
It is 30 feet high and of Quincy 
granite. Brighton is assured a pro- 
gressive and prosperous future. 

SOUTH BOSTON 
was set off from Dorchester and 
joined to Boston in 1804. Tlie 
district extends about two miles 
along the south side of the harbor, 
an arm of which, known as Port 
Point Channel, separates it from 
the city proper. This channel lias 
been much narrowed by filling up, 
and the " made " land is chiefly oc- 
cupied by the railroad.s. The chan- 
nel is crossed by bridges. When 
South Boston was added to Boston, 
the city acquired 1002 additional 
acres of land; but at that time there 
were only ten families on the terri- 
tory. The annexation, it is said, 
was the outcome of a real-estate 
speculation ; and the most active 
promoters of it were actuated by a 
belief that in the near future this 
district would become a very popu- 
lous and fashionable one. But their 
expectations were not as rapidly 
realized as they predicted. Soon 
after the annexation, a bridge was 
built across the channel at the 
" Neck," at Dover Street, and was 
opened in March, 1804, vyith a mili- 
tary display and great civic " pomp 

and circumstance." It was 1550 feet long, and cost S50,000 to construct it 
has been substituted a fine, substantial iron bridg 
from the foot of Federal Street; and now in 
Boston are adequately connected, the latest 
iron bridge extending from Broadway to 




Slate Street. 



In recent years there 
In 1828, a second South Boston Bridge was built, 
in the matter of bridges the city proper and South 
important addition in this respect being the magnificent 
Harrison Avenne. The building of the earliest bridges 
led to an increase of the population of South Boston; and though the district failed to become, as had 
been predicted, the " court end " of the city, many fine residences were reared upon the sightly bluffs 
towards the South Boston Neck. South Boston experienced its most rapid growth after tlic street-railway sys- 
tem h:id been established, in 1854. Then it was that building operations multiplied. Dwellings arose on every 
hand, and several important and notable public institutions were erected here, while factories, foundries, 
work-shops, etc., kept on increasing, parks were laid out and the place in many ways made attractive. The 



76 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

street system of South Boston is very regular, wliich is more tliau can be sairl for tlie city proper, 
especially in its most ancient parts. Broadway is the principal tlioroughfare, and runs through the 
centre from Albany Street, in the city proper, to City Point, at the extreme end of South Boston. The 
parallel streets on either side are generally numbered, and the cross-streets lettered. Broadway, on which 
are located many fine business blocks, splendid cluirch edifices, and neat-looking mansions, is divided into West 
and East, that portion from Albany Street to Dorcliester Street being designated as West Broadway, and that 
from Dorchester Street to City Point, East Broadway. A walk or ride up Broadway is interesting, particularly 
so beyond Dorchester Street. City Point is the common terminus for the horse-car lines, and is one of the two 
chief places of interest for the mere spectator, the other being Dorchester Heights. The Point is a favorite 
resort in the summer season, when the place presents a lively appearance, visitors finding all necessary facilities 
for fun and frolic and everything that can contribute to their ehjoyment. The Point commands magnificent 
liarbor views, and yachting sights innumerable. Indeed, this is the greatest rendezvous on the Eastern Massa- 
chusetts coast for yaclits, as respects numbers ; for there are other places where yachts of larger tonnage than 
those which anchor here arc more numerous. Southerly, a fine view is obtained of Dorchester, the Blue Hills, 
and parts of Quincy. The Pomt abounds in seaside hotels and cafes. Here, too, is the new Marine Park, 
with its long promenade pier extending nearly to Fort Independence (the old Castle Island) in the liarbor. 

In the immediate neighborhood is the School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Children, at No. V23 East 
Eighth Street; also the City Asylum for the Insane, and the Suffolk House of Correction on First Street. 
Standing on a high elevation on the corner of Broadway and Emerson Street, and commanding charming views 
over land and water, is the building of the world-renowned charity, the Perkins Institution for the Blind, over 
which the late learned Dr. S. G. Howe presided successfully for many years. Near by are the historic Dor- 
chester Heights, famous in Revolutionary lore. These heights were included in the territory annexed to Bos- 
ton in 1804, and are sometimes spoken of as Telegraph Hill (though it is many years since it was used for 
marine telegraphing purposes) and also as Mount AVashington. As mentioned elsewhere in this work, Wash- 
ington, during the siege of Boston, by a strategic movement, seized upon these heights and fortified them, to 
the astonishment of tlie British, who were in possession of the city. All other points of vantage were in the 
hands of the English; and Washington, .seeing they had neglected to hold the heights, determined, in March, 
1776, to seize them and throw up formidable works with despatch. The ground was frozen and the weather 
bad, and his army was scattered over East Cambridge and Roxbury. When night set m, he caused a heavy 
cannonading to begin from both East Cambridge and Roxbnrv that should claim the attention of the English 
soldiery and prevent the work going on on the heights from being heard. To still further deaden the noise 
of the carts passing over the frozen ground, their wheels were bound with whisjjs of straw, and straw was 
strewn over the roads through which they passed. When daylight dawned on the morning of the 4th of 
March, the British were not only surprised, but alarmed, by the fortifications they saw on the heights. Howe, 
the English commander, determined to storm the fortifications on the following night, and to this end sent 
three thousand men to Castle Island (now Fort Independence), to make an attack from that side. A storm, how- 
ever, arose, that prevented the carrying out of the design ; and meanwhile the Americans kept on vigilantly 
strengthening their works until the British recognized they were too formidable to overthrow, and decided to 
evacuate the town. This they did on the I7th ; and Washington, to the great delight of the citizens and the 
whole country, then marched with his soldiers into Boston, where ho was hailed as a deliverer. This is re- 
garded as one of the greatest military achievements of the " Father of the Country." 

On the slope of hill on Old Harbor Street is Carney Hospital, a public institution of great excellence, 
conducted by the Sisters of Charity, and its usefulness is extended to both Catholics and Protestants alike. 

A vast area of land has been reclaimed and is being reclaimed from the Bay at South Boston, and the place 
is renowned for its numerous and varied foundries, sugar-refineries, breweries, and other noteworthj- industries. 
These are for the most part located along the water-sides of the district and afford employment 1o vast num- 
bers of workpeople. Among the most noted works here are those of the South Boston Iron Company, on 
Foundry Street. The concern covers nearly seven acres, and is the largest of its kind in the country. It was 
founded by Cvrus Alger, the famous metpilurgist and inventor, who constructed the first perfect bronze cannon 
for the national and State governments. Here have been produced the largest cannon ever made in America. 

Handsome as South Boston is as a residential section, noted as it is for its cottages, atfli populous as it is, 
it has never been very atlracti\r to the aristocratic citizens as a place of residence; and a peculiarity attached to 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 77 

it is the falliiio- in value of property in what were once tlic most select sections and the growth in value of 
building-lots in others. The old-timers who owned the line hill residences have been attracted to more fash- 
ionable sections of the city, or made homes in the suburbs; and, on putting their property into the market, have 
found that they could sell only at from thirty to tifty per cent below the cost of building. The consequence is 
that there has been considerable falling off in the valuation of property in this section of South Boston; but it 
has been more than made up by the advances realized elsewhere through the erection of tenement-houses and 
moderate-priced dwellings. Since 1883, about 600 houses (chief3y of the tenement class) have been erected in 
the district, most of them in the territory east of Dorchester Street and well toward the Point. These are 
occupied mostly by mechanics. Many single bouses, too, have been erected, costing from $3000 to $4000. 
In Ward 13, there is a large co-operative tenement building on Second Street, corner of Athens, near Dorches- 
ter Avenue. It is a four-story building, and contams about thirty tenements, ranging from three rooms and 
upward each. There have been many improvements made at and near the Boston wharf property. Among 
others is the establishment at this place of the Chace Confectionery Works. To show how, on the other hand, 
land has varied in value, it mav be stated that the local gas company, some ten or fifteen years ago, paid $2 a 
foot for a piece of land on the corner of B and Third Streets, for which a dollar a foot can now be hardly 
realized. There has been an offer of Vo cents a foot for it. Another peculiarity of land values is that, while 
vacant land on the south of Broadway is taxed at from 40 to 50 cents a foot, on the north side of that thor- 
oughfare, it is ta.xed at only from 20 to 25 cents per foot. The valuation of the three wards, 13, 14 and 15, 
comprised in South Boston has increased in the last five years $2,939,100, and the population, according to the 
number of polls, about 7000. 

EAST BOSTON. 

This now populous and busy centre little more than half a century ago was a wilderness, and was occupied 
by only one family, while to-day it has upon it more than forty thousand people; is crossed and recrossed 
with streets lined with stores, factories, foundries, workshops, dwellings, churches, schools, etc., by the thous- 
ands ; its thoroughfares are kept lively with the eternal jingle of the bells of railroadcar horses and the din 
of the wheels of traffic: from its piers ferry-boats flit hither and thither by day and by night; and to and 
from its extensive wharves ocean steamers come and go at will burdened with merchandize and human freight ; 
while its shipyards turn into the deep vessels that plow the billows from coast to coast. And all this is the 
achievement of half a century ! 

East Boston is an island situated at the confluence of the Mystic and Charles Rivers, and is connected 
with the city proper by ferry, and with the mainland at Chelsea and Winthrop hy bridges. Its original name 
was Noddle Island, and it received this appellation on account of having been occupied by one William Nod- 
dle, who, by old writers, was designated "an honest man from Salem." Its "settlement" — if such a term can 
be legitimately used — -dates back to the earliest accounts of Massachusetts Bay, and its history includes many 
interesting incidents, both of a local and general character. From the time of its discovery it became, owing 
to its close proximity to Boston, a favorite pasture-ground. In this way both it and the otlier islands in the 
harbor yielded considerable revenue, and at the time of the Revolution all the islands were well-stocked with 
domestic animals. Noddle Island was also a favorite fishing-ground. 

On November 3, 1620, King James I. granted the territory hereabouts to the council of Plymouth, who, 
on December, 13, 1622, gave to Robert Gorges, youngest son of Ferdinando Gorges (who had expended £20,- 
000 in fruitless attempts to make settlements in various parts of Massachusetts) various lands. This gift in- 
cluded Noddle Island. Robert died, and his brother John, who succeeded him as proprietor in January, 1628, 
conveyed the island and other lands to Sir William Brereton, of Handforth, Co. Chester, England, who sent 
over servants to improve the lands and make leases; but neither the Plymouth council nor his own own govern- 
ment seem to have recognized his authority, and he does not appear to have ever come to the country himself. 
But be that as it may, it seems that according to the colony records, the General Court, on April 1, 1633, 
granted the island to S.imuel Maverick, and this under the title of Noddle Island. This fact demonstrates that 
William Noddle, who is believed to have been one of Sir W. Brereton's colonists, and who was made a free- 
man in 1631, occupied the island previously. Prior to Maverick coming into possession the General Court 
seems to have exercised a care over the island, for in 1631 it passed an order restraining persons from "putting 
on Cattell, felling wood or raiseing slate" on this island. Like all the islands in the harbor, there appeared to 



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be forests growing upon Noddle's Island in former times, and apparently a similar fate befel tliera all to be 
bereft of this growth. In 1632 the following order was passed: " Noe p'son wt'soevcr sliall shoot atl fowle 
upon Pullen Poynte or Noddle's Ileland, but the sd places shalbe reserved for John Perkins, to take fowle with 
netts." The following is a copy of the orders passed in favor of Mr. Maverick, who acquired all John Per- 
kin's privileges : 

"Noddle's Ileland is granted to Mr. Sam'l Mavack to enjoy to to him and his heires for ever. Yielding 
and & payeing yearly att ye Generall Court, to ye Gov'n'r for the time being, either a fatt weather, a fatt hogg, 
or Xls in money, & .shallo give leave to Boston and Charles Towne to fetch woode contynually, as theiro necde 
requires, from ye southerue p'ts of sd ilslaiid." It appears that the " neede " of Boston and Charlestown re- 




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quired all the wood growing, and these two enterprising towns appear to have used it pretty freely, for by 1833 
they had removed all the timber on the island except two trees ! 

Noddle's Island was " layd to Boston," as it was termed, in 1G36. It originally contained about 663 
acres, together with the contiguous flats to low-water mark. Before any alterations in toposrraphy had been 
made the island was fancifully stated to resemble a great bear, described as follows : " The bear's licad, an 
elevated tract of land, was known as the ' middle farm,' with Hog Island marsh at its northeast. The small, 
round pond in this part called Eye pond in consequence of the loss there of the eye of a noted gunner helps 
out the fancied figure. The bear's back, fronting the mouth of Mystic River, was tlie most elevated part of 
tbe island, and was known as Eagle llill, and its abrupt tcrmmation at the confluence of Mystic River and 
Chelsea Creek as West Head, and more recently as Eagle Point. The two fore feet of the assumed bear were 
called Eastern and Western Wood Islands, being isolated from the Great Marsh, wbich also isolated Camp 
Hill and its marsh, the two binder paws from the same. The heel of the hinder leg was called Smith's Hill, 
the site of the old buildings which anciently stood on the island, and was separated from Camp Hill by Great 
Creek, since the canal of the water-power company, lyinj, between the present Bainbridge and Decatur Streets. 
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after tlic Eritisli evacuated the town from materials taken from the old barraeks used by Wasliington's army 
in Cambridge. In 1776 a fort was erected on Camp Hill. This or Smith's Hill may liave been the site of 
Mr. Maverick's fort of four guns erected in 1630." In 18 U another more substantial fort was placed on Camp 
Hill, called Fort Strong, in compliment to the governor then. This was long ago removed, and Belmont Square 
now occupies its site. 

Samuel Maverick, who was the son of the Rev. John Maverick of Dorchester mentioned in the foregoing 
pages, was born in 1602. lie was evidently in his day a man of considerable importance, and exercised great 
hospitality at his island home, where he was frequently visitod by Governor Winthrop and other notabilities. 
Wlien Mt. Wollaston in Quiney belonged to Boston, Maverick was there granted tlie use of five hundred acres 
for the pasturing of his cattle. In 1645 he made a loan to the town toward fortifying Castle Island, wiiich the 
toun i,u III iiitied should be refunded " in case said garrison be defeated or 
dunolisliLd, (.\eept by adversary power, within three years." Fioni the earliest 
scttlcmtnt of Boston religious persecutions characterized the colonists, tliough 
the} lud fled from tlieir native land on account of similar intolerance. 
Mivciick was a devout Episcopalian and because of the persecutions to which 
he w 1-, '-iibjLCled he gave up his residence, and, conjointly with his wife and 
von, N ith unci, sold his property to (Captain George Briggs of Barbadoes, 
wh > in the suiie year (1650) conveyed it to Nathaniel, and the latter on Oc- 
tober Jb, lOoO, conveyed it to Colonel John Burch of Barbadoes. In 1656 



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Thomas Boughton purchased the island through Kichard 
Leader, his attorney, who took the deed in his own name and 
that of Richard Newbold. On account of financial embar- 
rassment Boughton, on April 19, 1659, conveyed tlie island 
and other property to Henry Shrimpton and Ricliard Cooke 
of Boston, and Walter Price of Salem, in trust for 
his creditors Shrimpton declined this trust, as full pos- 
session of Noddle Island liad iieen previously given to Walter Price. In 1664 Sir Thomas Temple pur- 
chased Cooke's interest, and in 1657 Ncwbold's interest (as creditors of Boughton) in the island and be- 
came sole owner. In 1670 Temple sold out to Samuel Shrimpton, who, in 1682, by the payment of £30 to 
the State, cleared the island of all the conditions in the grant to Maverick, and thus became the first person 
who lield it in his own right in fee-simple. The property descended to his widow, Elizabeth, who became the 
wife of Richard Stoddard, and by her will, dated April 11, 1713, slic devised the island to her granddaughter, 
the daughter of her son, Samuel Shrimpton, Jr. This grand(hiuo:hter married into the Stoddard and Yeamans 
families, and her three daughters married into the Chauncy, Greenleaf and Hyslop families, one of tlic Tlyslops 
and a descendant of Shrimpton, also becoming the wife of Governor Increase Sumner. The representatives of 
these families came to have interests in the island, and finally death carried off some of the owners and the 
island came to be owned by David Stoddard, who held, in fee, three-sixths of the island ; David Hyslop, who 
held one .sixtli; and Elizabeth (Hyslop) Sumner, who hold two sixths. General W. H. Sumner, son and suc- 
cessor of tlie latter, purcliased the others' interests, and in 1833 formed the East Boston Company, to accom- 



80 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

plish tlio great object of his life — to make Noddle Island a valuable addition to the metropolis of New Eng- 
land. 

One of the early arrangements made for travel to and from Noddle Island appears in the following oi'der, 
passed October 30, 1637, authorizing Edward Bendall to " keepe a sufficient ferrie-boat to carry to Noddle's 
Island and to the Shipps riding before the Towns, taking for a single p'son ijd. and for two 3d." Prior to 
1833, the island shores were resorted to by pleasure-parties, to cook their fish and to have a jollification, to 
which end they were aided by the liospitality of the one resident, Mr. Thomas Williams, as long as he lived. 
This gentleman and his father, Mr. Henry Howell Williams, held the lease of Noddle Island for seventy years ; 
and as a consequence the place came to be frequently spoken of as Williams' Island. In the war of the Rev- 
olution, the island was occupied by the British, who carried off Williams' flocks and herds and made a bonfire 
of his farm dwelling. After the British evacuated Boston, General Washington gave, as a recompense, the 
building which had been used as barracks at Cambridge, to Williams, who removed the structure to the 
island. 

After the East Boston Company was incorporated, on March 25, 1833, the island property, according to 
the survey of 1801, consisted of 663 acres of upland and marsh, surrounded by several hundred acres of flats, 
which were declared, by an act of the legislature, " to belong to the ordinary cove water marke." The island 
was separated from Boston by a distance of 132 rods, which distance was afterwards diminished by the exten- 
sion of the wharves The island and the city of Boston, to which it was annexed in 1830, were originally 
reputed to be of about equal .size, each being supposed to contain about a thousand acres, some three hundred 
acres of the island having been washed or worn away by the action of the sea. 

Shares in the company were rapidly taken up, lands reclaimed and mapped out into streets, and building- 
lots set off and sold. In street nomenclature, the plan was of a judicious nature. The selection of names of 
American towns, commemorative of their services in connection with struggles for liberty, was not only thought- 
ful, but comprehensive. The names of Bennington, Lexington, Saratoga, Princeton, Eutaw, Monmouth, and 
Trenton were out of commonplace, and of a sterling character. Maverick, the early owner of the island, 
was not forgotten ; nor were those patriots, Sumner, Webster, and Everett. These all made good names for 
streets. There can be little objection, also, to the names of Paris, London, Liverpool, and Havre, which con 
stitute the other principal street names. 

A census was made in 1833, but the numbering of the people was an easy task, for there were only eight 
persons — three males and five females — on the island, and these comprised three families. From 1833, to 
1835, however, great progress was made, and the tax valuation rose from $60,000 to $806,000. In 1836, the 
Eastern Railroad Company was organized to construct a line of railway from East Boston to Salem, and at 
East Boston the company's depot was located until 1854, when it was removed to Boston. In 1 839, the 
Cunard line of ocean steamships made East Boston their entrepot, and the construction of railway and wharves 
and the establishment here of a sugar-refinery gave an impetus to the settlement in that locality, of mechanics 
and others engaged about the wharves, depot, and in building operations. Portions of the land were laid out 
in sections, comprising those known as sections 1, 2, and 3; lots were then apportioned and sold off at auction. 
In a short time, as if by magic, a handsome edifice appeared upon the highest summit of the southerly portion, 
near the remains of an old fort which occupied that eminence in former days. This mansion was for the use 
of one of Boston's afiiuent citizens, Benjamin Lamson ; and a more delightful situation could not be found in 
the vicinity, as it commanded a fine panoramic view of the city and harbor. This was the pioneer settler in 
that section of the island. Soon, however, others came in his train. Elegant mansions and more terraced gar- 
dens followed, until the whole southern slope, with Webster Street for a foreground, became a blooming par- 
adise. Mr. Lamson also built a block of nine five-storied, swelled-front brick houses near his residence; and 
these had gardens in the rear. Beyond this block, and directly overiookiug the fort, James Cunningham 
erected a princely mansion. The view from this house was the most extensive of any on the island, it being 
more lofty than others. Advancing to the extreme southerly point, passing several pretty cottages, there was 
seen at the terminus, like a bird's nest overhanging the water, the unique and romantic residence of Dr. Jef- 
fries. This point is still known as "Jeffries' Point," in perpetuation of the doctor. 

The only wharves at East Boston forty years back were those known as Cunard's (where the British 
steamers stopped) ; Locke's, on Marginal Street ; Miller's, foot of Maverick Street ; and Tuttle's, foot of London 
Street. It reinaine<l for after-developments to form a fringe of piers all along the harbor front. In the early 



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81 



40's, these was consideralile of a tiow of population to East Boston, and by 1857 the residents numbered 16,618. 
There were 1879 dwellings, 11 churches, 10 schoolhouses, 24 manufactories and mills, 76 warehouses and 
stores, 109 mechanics' shops, several liotels, 5 fire-engine liouses, 12 counting-rooms, and 77 stables; while 17 
miles of streets had been laid out. The story of the building of bridges, the construction and operation of 
ferries, the creation of manufacturing enterprises, the growth of the ship-building interest, and other ventures 
would fill a volume. There arc two feri-ies now — known as North and South — connecting East Boston with 
the city proper ; and these are owned by the city. A ferry, owned by the Boston, Revere Beach ik Lynn 
liailroad (whose depot is at East Boston) is run between the island and Atlantic Avenue. 

East Boston and the other harbor islands comprise the first and second wards of the city, the " harbor 
islands" being included in the second ward. It is to-day one of the most populous sections of Boston; where 
the well-to-do people of industrial callings principally have homes. It is indeed a district of homes, and has 
not within its limits a modern apartmont-liouse, though there are many blocks where two or more tenements 




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and Arlington Street, 



for family housekeeping exist. It lias abundant scliool and church accommodations. Its population is now 
computed at fortv thousand. Its valuation lias grown to Sl7,961,700, the increase since 1883 having been 
$1,863,900. 

The building improvements in East Boston during the year 1888 have been far in advance of those made 
within the past twenty years. Many of the unsightly vacant lots on Chelsea, Paris, Havre, Bennington, and 
other adjoining streets have been brought up to the street grade, and fine tenement-house structures erected 
thereon. In the first section the most notable improvements have been made at the foot of Everett Street, 
where a long line of houses have been put up. On Maverick Street, east of Chelsea Street, it is intended shortly 
to make many improvements in the neighborhood of the dump, in anticipation of laying out new streets and 
giving citizens a straight road over the marsh to the fourth section. The Atlantic Works, which were burned 
last summer, have been fully rebuilt at a cost of over -$50,000, and 300 men are at work. The new structure 



83 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

is the liandsoinest machine-shop in East Boston. Tlic Xe« Enghmd Cooperage Company recently vacated its 
extensive building on Summer Street, to take up new quarters on Chelsea Street, and is employing a larger 
number of hands than ever. In the third section the most noticeable building is that of the new Trinity Bap- 
tist Church. It is an imposing structure and an ornament to the hill upon which it stands. The most e.x 
tensive of recent improvements is that of the construction of the machine-works of the Boston Tow-boat 
Company, on Border Street. They cover several acres. In the fourtli section over twenty houses and tene- 
ment blocks have been b'lilt. At Orient Heights and Wintrop Junction a number of new dwellings have 
been erected. 

Among the improvements now making in the district are those of the East Boston Company. This com- 
pany own about 110,000 square feet of land, bounded by Meridian, West Eagle, and Falcon Streets, which is 
from 25 to 30 feet above grade. The company also own about 36 acres of high marsh land, bounded by the 
city parkway, the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad, Prescott Street, and the track of the Boston & 
Albany Road. The material from the higli lands is being carted on to the marsh property, on which the street 
and cellar grades will be brought up to the city standard, viz.: 12 feet for cellars and 18 feet for streets. This 
is one of the choicest locations in East Boston, being on the harbor front and near the new city park. Some 
of the best houses recently built in East Boston was located in this neighborhood. 

CHARLESTOWN. 

The Charlestown District, au old-fashioned, quaint place, once a distinct city of itself, has formed an im- 
portant section of Boston since its annexation in 1873. It now comprises the third, fourth, and fifth wards 
of Boston. It has an interesting history, dating from the very earliest settlement of the colony, for it was here 
that Governor Winthrop and his associates landed from their ship and established their abodes. Before they 
came the Indians were here, and the place was called Mishawun. Then it took unto itself the name of Charles- 
town, and as a town it embraced the areas of what are now the town of Burlington and the cities of Woburn, 
Maiden, and Somerville, as well as parts of Reading, Medford, Cambridge and West Cambridge (now Arling- 
ton). Charlestown was a difBcult place to get to from Boston until after the Revolution, for such ferries as 
existed between the two places were of a very primitive character, and wagons from the North End had to 
travel roundabout by way of Roxbury, over the " Neck," to reach Charlestown or Cambridge. 

Charlestown, for all that, was a flourishing place in colonial times. It was founded in 1629, and in the 
following year many hundreds of English were trying to live in huts and tents on or around the Town Hill, at 
tiie foot of which was the great house, sheltering the Governor and his chief officers. A part of the inhabi- 
tants went across the water to keep minister Blackstone company and to found the city of Boston. Charles- 
town, liowever, continued to grow, if slowly, and when the revolutionary era arrived, there were some three 
hundred dwellings and from 1.50 to 200 other buildings in the place. There is nothing to be found now to 
tell us what the little settlement was like then, but whatever there was of it was wiped out by fire started by 
the British forces then located in Boston. General Gage had repeatedly warned the people that he would burn 
their town if they allowed it to be used as a basis of hostilities against his army, and he kept his word, for he 
wrote home to his government on June 26th, 1776, that the town "was set on fire during tlie engagement, and 
most part of it consumed." The engagement referred to the Bunker Hill fight, for this is the home of the far- 
famed Bunker Hill. 

After the outbreak of the war at Lexington, armed colonists to the number of twent}' thousand, formed an 
encampment around Boston from Roxbury to the Mystic River, and General Gage received powerful reinforce- 
ments, accompanied by Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoync from England. Gage had the idea that the 
Americans wanted to drive him into the sea, and the colonists suspected that Gage and his troops intended to 
sally out into the country and burn up and destroy everything they could. The Americans determined to an- 
ticipate this movement by seizing and fortifying Bunker Hill, a height which commanded the whole peninsular 
of Charlestown. Orders were accordingly issued on the 10th of June, l775, to Colonel Prescott, father of the 
historian of the same name, to proceed witli a thousand men to occupy and entrench the Hill ; but by some 
mistake, or designedly, as some assert. Breed's Hill was marked out instead of Bunker Hill, seven hundred 
yards distant. Bunker Hill was higher, but Breed's Hill was near Boston, and within common range of the 
city. Under cover of darkness, Prescott and his men reached the hill without being observed, and on the 
summit the men labored from midnight to dawn in building a redoubt, which the British viewed with consider- 



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able astonishment as soon as daylight appeared, for Prescott's eannon coniiiiaiided the city. " We must carry 
those works immediately," said General Gage to his officers, and soon the slups in the harbor began to can- 
nonade the new fortifications. The Britisli battery on Copp's Hill also opened a heavy fire. But little damage 
was done in this way, and the Americans returned but few shots, as their supply of ammunition was very 
limited. Soon 'after noon, three thousand English, commanded by Generals Howe and Pigot, landed at 
Morton's Point to carry the hill by assault. The Americans numbered only one half of the British, and were 
wearied with their night's work and hungry as well ; but they had a big stock of courage. When the can- 
nonading was at its hottest, Prescott climbed out of the defences and walked leisurely around the parapet in full 
view of the British officers. Generals Putnam and Warren volunteered as privates and entered the trenches. 
At three o'clock in the afternoon Howe ordered his column to advance, and at the same time every gun in the 
fleet and batteries was turned upon the American redoubt. Then it was that Charlestown was set on fire and 
destroyed. The people mounted the house-tops in Boston to behold the engagement. On came the British 
with steady march, and not until they were within a hundred and fifty feet of them did the Americans show any 
signs of their presence. " Fire !" cried Prescott, and instantly from breastwork and redoubt every gun was 
fired, and the front rank of the British melted away. There was a recoil, and fifteen minutes afterwards a pre- 
cipitate retreat. When beyond musket range, Howe rallied his men and led them to the second charge. Again 
the American fire was withheld until the enemy was but a few rods distant. Then, with steady aim, volley 
after volley was poured upon the charging column until it was broken and a second time driven to flight. The 
British officers grew desperate, and the vessels of the fleet changed position until the guns were brought to 
bear upon the interior of the American works. Then for the third time the assaulting column was put in 
motion, and the men came on with fixed bayonets up the hillside where were strewn the dead and dying. The 
Americans had but three or four rounds of ammunition left, and these were fired into the advancing enemy. 
Then there was a lull. The British climbed over the ramparts, and after a fierce struggle drove the patriots 
out. Prescott lived through the fight, but Warren was numbered among the slain. In this terrible engagement 
the English paid dearly for their victory, for they lost 1054 men in killed and wounded. The American loss 
was 115 killed, 305 wounded, and 32 prisoners. Prescott and Putnam conducted the retreat to Prospect Hill, 
where a new line of entrenchments was formed, and which still commanded the entrance to Boston. The fight 
showed that the British soldiers were not invincible, and the Americans were proud of their achievement, 
though defeated. The event is yearly celebrated at Charlestown on June l7th, by a holiday, processions, etc. 

The event, too, has been commemorated by the building on the site of the redoubt a great granite obelisk, 
rising to a height of 221^ feet. It has a base 30 feet square and the column tapers gradually to 15| feet 
at the ape.x. Inside the shaft is a hollow cone, surrounding which is a spiral flight of 295 stone steps, ascend- 
ing to a chamber 11 feet square and 17 feet high, whence a beautiful view is obtained from the four windows. 
The capstone of the apex, above this observatory, is in one piece, and weighs 2J tons. The room contains two 
small cannons, the inscriptions upon which tell their story. The cornei"-stone was laid June l7th, 1825, by 
General Lafayette, and it was dedicated June l7th, 1843. The orator on both occasions was Daniel Webster. 
The monument cost over $150,000, and at the foot of it is a building containing a marble statue of General 
Warren and various memorials of the battle. The surroundings of the monument are handsomely laid out, and 
in the main path of the grounds, on the spot where he is supposed to have stood encouraging his men, is a 
bronze statue of General Prescott, erected in 1881. The celebration of the centennial of the battle on June 
l7th, 1775, was an event which drew together military representatives and others from all sections of the 
country. The real Bunker Hill is crowned by a Catholic Church. 

In 1777 the people began to rebuild their town, and by the end of 1785 there were 279 buildings and 999 
inhabitants. In l786 the Charles River bridge to Charlestown was built at a cost of $50,000. It was then 
considered one of the grandest enterprises ever undertaken in the country. It was 1503 feet long, and 42 feet 
wide, with a 30 foot draw. It was opened amid great rejoicings on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker 
Hill. In the following year (1787), a bridge was cpened between Charlestown and Maiden, another to Chelsea 
in 1803, and one to East Cambridge in 1820. These established communications of immeasurable benefit, ;ind 
in 1793, when the work of constructing the Middlesex Canal was begun, it was of immense advantage to the 
town. It was one of the earliest undertakings of the kind in the country, and was to connect tidewater with 
the upper Merrimack. The canal was completed m 1 803, but was never very profitable. The railroads came 
and took away the traffic. The charter was forfeited in ISGO and the canal destroyed. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



Charlestowii is adequately supplied with railroad and other transportation facilities. Formerly the Fitch- 
burg passenger and freight stations were located here, but in 1848 were removed to Boston. The district has 
many objects of interest to visitors. The "Neck," over which the Bunker Hill warriors went to give battle, 
and over which they retreated when worsted, connects Charlestowii with the mainland of Somerville beyond. 
It was washed liy the tides in the early days, but has been entirely changed by the filling up of the marshes and 
flats on its borders. The Neck properly begins near the foot of Bunker Hill and ends at the boundary line 
over the Maine & Eastern Railroad Bridge, between the Charlestown district and Somerville. The Navy 
Yard stands on what was once Moulton's Point, at the confluence of the Charles and Mystic Rivers, and was 
founded in 1800. The Yard and buildings cover an extensive area, and as they are daily open to visitors, an 
inspection is to be commended. Another object of interest is the handsome Soldiers and Sailors' Monument 




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ing the Lake. 



in Winthrop Square, once the military training-field. On Main Street is Edes House, the birthplace of S. F. B. 
Morse (the inventor of the electric telegraph), and the oldest house in the district. On the same thoroughfare 
is the oldest burying-ground, where a granite monument surmounts the grave of John Harvard, ihe founder of 
Harvard College ; and near by is the tomb of Thomas Beecher, ancestor of the Beecher family of America. 
The district also contains the old state prison, a free dispensary and hospital, several other charitable institu- 
tions, public free library, and schools, churches of all denominations, and many fine mansions and neat cot- 
tages. The streets are wide and well kept, and illumination is supplied by gas and electric lights, while the 
water supply is abundant in quantity and excellent in quality. 

While Charlestown has not been what is called a manufacturing place, it has numerous industrial estab- 
lishments of a varied and extensive character, and these are constantly being multiplied. The principal 
thoroughfare. Main Street, is lined with stores, in which every conceivable class of merchandise is to be secured. 

Charlestown never had a theatre or concert-room, yet it has occasionally been favored by visits of a circus. 
Plays and concerts, however, have been given in the old Town Hall (where the public library now is), and in 
the Waverloy and Monument Halls and Navy Yard, but in no regular places. The growtli of population is in- 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 85 

stanccd by the following statistics: In 1785 tin.' population was 999; in Isoo, 2751 ; m 1805, 2800; in I&IO, 
4736; ill 1834, 10,000; in 1840, 10,872; in 1850 15,9;;3; in 1855, 21,742; in 1865, 26,398; in 1870, 28,- 
323 ; in 1885, 37,673 ; and now it is eoinputed to be over 40,000. Values of property, however, have been 
but little increased during the past few years by the erection of new buildings. As in the case of South Boston, 
noted elsewhere, — thoughin a greater degree, — ^inuch of the former high-cost property in residences has largely 
depreciated in value, owing to tiie desire on the part of owners to move into more fashionable quarters, and 
other causes that would induce vacation and sacrifice of property. Houses worth #10,000 and upward have 
shrunk in value, while lower-priced buildings hold their own. There have been some dwellings and a few 
apartment-houses erected in Charlcstown in the past five years, but the decrease in residential property on the 
hill — where the wealthy people of the district mostly resided — has so largely off-set tlie increase of real-estate 
values thus acquired that in that period the gain in real-estate valuation has been only $1,717,300. The gain 
in population has not been large, as would naturally bo expected from the fact that the district is pretty thickly 
built over, the only vacant land, and that limited in extent, being on the Neck. 

THE NEW WEST END. OR BACK BAY DISTRICT, 

The reader has seen, in the perusal of the foregoing pages, how the original boundaries of Boston have 
been extended, not merely by the annexation of out-lying districts, but by the reclamation of thousands of acres, 
of now valuable lands, from the ocean. He has, how ever, yet to be told of the greatest acliievement of creating 
building land, and that the most attractive and valuable in the city. It comprises the whole region of the now 
showy and fashionable "New West End" or "Back Bay District," the "Court End" of the city. 

When the present century was ushered in, the appearance of Back Bay was like unto that of Dorchester 
Bay to-day. At that time the waters of the bay flowed up to the present Washington Street at the " Neck," 
and swept over the present Public Garden to the coast now forming Charles Street. At flood tide the bay 
was a beautiful sheet of water spreading out far and wide, with the Brookline Hills in the distance, much as 
the Blue Hills are observed from South Boston, with no bridge, dam, or causeway intercepting the view of 
rustic Cambridge lying amid forest surroundings at the foot of Mount Auburn, between the West Boston and 
Brighton Bridges. In 1814, the Boston & Roxbury Corporation was organized to utilize the water-power of 
the great basin by dams thrown across it, and to use these dams as causeways for communication between 
Boston and Roxbury and the western suburbs. The " Mill-dam," now lower Beacon Street; the " Cross-dam," 
now Parker Street; and the causeway, now known as Brookline Avenue, were made to divide the waters. The 
Mill Dam was completed in 1821, and three years later the business of the corporation was divided, the Boston 
Water-power Company being then chartered to use the water-power of the mill company, which retained the 
roads and the lands north of the dam, while the i;ew company became possessed of the mills and water-power. 
In 1831, the Boston (fe Worcester and the Boston & Providence Railroad Companies were given authority to 
construct lines across the Back Bay, and the riparian owners power to fill up their flats — concessions which 
so interfered with the water-power as to lead t<i the Boston Water-power Company converting itself into a land 
company. Much of the sewage of the citv was thrown into the basin, until it became a nuisance and the filling 
up of the bay an absolutely necessary sanitary act. Below the line of riparian ownership the State had the 
rio'ht to the flats, and in 1849 the State appointed a commission to deal with the subject of creating new land 
here. A comprehensive plan was reported in 1852, and it was arranged that the mill corporation should fill up 
the area north of the Mill Drmi ; that the State should attend to that north of an cast-and-west line drawn fron) 
near the present Boston &; Providence Railroad Station ; and that the water-power company should see to all 
south of that line. The contractor for filling in and making marketable the wdiole of tliis section (in which 
work millions of piles were used) was Norman C. Munson, who received as payment for his first work 260,000 
square feet out of upwards of a million square feet of land reclaimed. By continuous contracts, the work ex- 
tended over twenty years, and finally Munson received about seven million dollars as reward for his enterprise. 
The work was planned by the famous architect Arthur Oilman. 

The State filled in its section at a cost of $1,750,000, and it has since sold land for $4,625,000 and has yet 250,- 
000 feet unsold. The water-power company found the work alike profitable. The city, too, has for years been 
engaged in filling up swamps, levelling lands, constructing avenues driveways, and parks, and ornamenting tho 
whole of this region, which for beauty and residential magnificence has no counterpart in either the New or Old 
Worlds. I,et the reader spread before him a map of the city as it exists to-day and strike a line through Charles, 



86 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

Boylston, and Essex Streets, running crookedly from Charles River on the west to the Port Channel dividing the 
citj' proper from South Boston. All the area represented below this line up to the foot of the Highlands is 
" created" land, save where Washington Street runs, and this thoroughfare is over the Neck, which was itself 
frequently Japped by the waters of the ocean. All the land lying to the south of the Boston & Providence 
Railroad, including Columbus Avenue, is now territorially identified with the "South End," already referred to 
in these pages. The "Back Bay District" includes all the "made" land on the other side of the railroad. 

In this district, running from Arlington Street (the western border of the Public Garden), and parallel with 
Beacon Street, are Commonwealth Avenue, Newbury, Marlborough, and Boylston Streets, with Huntington 
Avenue branching oS the latter street at the junction of Clarendon Street. Parallel with Arlington Street are 
Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, and Hereford Streets, West Chester Park, etc. 
As we have said, vast improvements are now in progress in this district, the most prominent of which is the 
opening up of Boylston Street to public travel in its entire length. This street, which skirts the Common on 
its southern end, as Beacon Street does on the northern side, is in every way a more available and convenient 
avenue from the business section of Boston to the Back Bay ; but, owing to the fact that it crossed the tracks 
of the Boston & Albany Railroad near its junction with West Chester Park, and the difficulty and expense of 
bridging the railway, its completion was delayed, to the great inconvenience of the public, as well as to the 
stagnation of values of property on the unfinished line of the street. This condition is now in active process of 
being remedied. Boylston Street had been completed to E.xeter. From this point down to where the line 
crossed the railway, the grade liad to be raised, the filling in some places, viz., from Gloucester to Hereford 
Street, being from 15 to 18 feet. The work of 'filling in this section of street, as well as the portions west of 
the bridge and beyond to the Back Bay Park, was begun in the fall of 1887, and completed in February, 1888. 
The north abutment of the bridge, just beyond Hereford Street, was first built to enable the filling in of this 
section of the street to be accomplished, and to render available the use of the new police station and engine 
house which had been erected at the corner of Hereford and Boj'lston Streets. The work of grading and 
macadamizing is, at this writing, in active operation on the section of street in question, in conjunction with 
the construction of double street-railway tracks by the West End Railway Company. The railway tracks, it 
may be said, are now completed up to Hereford Street, and the street department is now macadamizing the 
driveways on each side in the most substantial manner. Every part and detail of this work is done thoroughly, 
and, when the street is opened, it will present one of the best driveways on the Back Bay. From the corner of 
Hereford Street to the bridge, the roadway will be paved, for the purpose of providing against the wear and 
tear of running in and out of the engine-house the fire apparatus; and the city will join with the railway com- 
pany in this work. Beyond West Chester Park to the new Back Bay Park, the roadway of Boylston Street is 
completed, and now forms one of the entrance driveways to that attractive place. When this latter improve- 
ment was undertaken, it was found that, in order to conform to the grade established by the park commission- 
ers and that already existing on West Chester Park, it would be necessary to raise the grade of Boylston Street 
about five feet near and at the point where Parker Street leads out from it. A block of new brick buildings 
on the south side of Boylston Street at the junction of Parker had to be raised in consequence of this eleva- 
tion of the roadway, at an expense of over $30,000 to the owner, the city allowing but $5,000 toward the 
work. The cost to the city of the construction of the roadway of Boylston Street from Exeter Street lo the 
park, not including filling in, of course, will be about $25,000. 

The bridge over the tracks of the Boston & Albany Railroad is, owing to the acute angle at which the 
street crosses it, a structure of peculiar form and details. The width of the railway road-bed under the street 
is only 60 feet, yet on the line of the street there is a distance of about 210 feet between abutments. The 
north abutment has a length of 185 feet, with flanking walls or abutments of 100 feet in length on the north 
side of the street and 122 feet on the south side. The south abutment is 174 feet in length, with a southern 
flank of 36 feet and a northern one of 105 feet. The piles for the foundation are driven in concrete 
to the depth of 3^ and 4 feet is filled in, on which rubble masonry is laid. Then succeed granite blocks 
on the railway fronts. The height of the roadway above the track of the railroad is 20 feet, the distance from 
track to under side of bridge being but 14 feet. The length of the truss-spans of this bridge is each 216 feet, 
being the longest of any bridge-truss span in the city. The total weight of the bridge — that is, of the struc- 
ture of iron and steel composing it — is about 400 tons. The total width of the bridge is 80 feet, which is the 
full width of the street. The width of the roadway inside the trusses is 44 feet. The construction was by the 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 87 

Boston Bridge Works, of Cambridgeport. The bridge cost about $50,000, and is one of the best, as well as 
the most unique, of its kind in the city. The cost of the abutments of this bridge was about $80,000, which, 
added to that of the bridge superstructure, would make the total cost of the bridge |230,000. This is a costly 
improvement, to be sure, but one of great utility and public importance. With the completion of the bridge, 
the tracks of the West End Railway will be quickly puslied forward and united to those on W' est Chester 
Park; and a direct line of communication, not only to the Back Bay residences south of Commonwealth 
Avenue established, but to the Back Bay Park, which can thus be readily and quickly reached, and the round- 
about way through Marlboro Street avoided. Altogether this work of completiug Boylston Street is one that 



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statue of Washington— Public Garden. 



adds another to the many great improvements that the city government is making on the Back Bay district of 
Boston. 

In addition to these public improvements the whole of the Charles River embankment, beginning at Lcv- 
erett Street near Craigie's Bridge, and extending to Cottage Farms Bridge, is being enlarged, fronted with a sea 
wall and laid out as a park, 200 feet in width, and will connect with a park at Brighton. Near West Chester 
Park a bridge — to be known as Harvard Bridge — is in course of construction across the Charles River to Cam- 
bridge, and will, when completed, be a great boon to residents on both sides of the river. West Chester Park 
is not a park but a street ninety feet wide. It crosses Cominonwealth Avenue, about five blocks west of the 
Hotel Vendome, and beginning at Charles River, and varying its direction at Falmouth Street, runs across the 
city. Between Tremont and Shawmut Avenue it broadens into Chester Square, a modest park of 1^ acres. 
East of Washington Street, it is called East Chester Park. 

Back Bay has, or will have, its park, liowever. It is now being laid our and will contain ponds fed by 



88 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

the waters of the Stony Brook, promcn:ides, drivewa3's, etc., connecting witli Beacon, Parker, and Boylston 
Streets, and also with Commonwealth, Westland, Longwood, Huntington, and Brookline Avenues. The work 
is a costly one, but when the park is completed it will, in addition to its own attractions, have a surrounding 
of beautiful scenery, and will be a connecting link in a long splendid parkway stretching from the Common 
and Public Garden, through Commonwealth Avenue, along the Muddy River Improvemennt, Jamaica Pond, 
the Arnold Arboretum and ending in the spacious and picturesque Franklin Park. The Charles River embank- 
ment will be separated from the Back Bay Parkway, only by Beacon Street, which is itself a popular driveway, 
extending along the Mill Dam, the surrounding of Chestnut Hill Reservoir and the shady, rustic lanes of 
Brighton. 

Back Bay is the richest section in the city, and it takes the lead in expensive dwellings and in the constant 
advance in the value of real estate. That portion of the district which is bounded by Charles River, Arlington 
Street, the Boston & Providence railway tracks and West Chester Park, in 1883 had a total valuation as fol- 
lows : Land, $26,182,600 ; buildings, $22,315,200. In 1888, land in this section had increased to $34,056,500, 
and buildmgs to $30,504,500, a total increase of rising of $16,000,000. But Back Bay has, in fact, two dis- 
tricts. One is the ultra-fashionable and aristocratic section, and extends west from Arlington Street to West 
Chester Park, and is bounded on the south by the line of- the Boston & Albany Railroad, and thence northward 
to Charles River. South of the railroad line, out to the Back Bay Park at least, the section is less aristocratic, 
and land is not much, if any, over one half the price that it is on the other side. No very costly residences are 
erected. On Huntington Avenue and on the back streets large apartment houses are being put up. West 
Chester Park, south of the Boston & Albany Railway track, besides family hotels, buildings with stores on 
the street level are being occupied ; and, with the completion of the bridge at this point over the Charles 
River, this street promises to become an important thoroughfare. 

But what shall be said of the Back Bay District as a whole'? Volumes might be written descriptive of 
its magnificent thoroughfares, its architectural splendor, its palatial mansions and hostelries, its public institu- 
tions, and its creation from out of the sea into one of the most attractive and beautiful habited spots the world 
can show ; but we are compelled to dismiss the whole in a page or two. 

Commonwealth Avenue is undoubtedly the chief attraction in this charming section. It is, in reality, two 
streets in one, with a fine park in the centre, containing rows of ornamental trees, neatly kept paths, benches, 
and several statues. The width of the thoroughfare, from house to house, is 250 feet, and from curb to curb 
175 feet. It extends through the new Back Bay Park to Brookline Avenue, and is lined with costly and 
beautiful residences, in the erection of which architects have had no limit to the exercise of their talents, nor 
had their plans marred by lack of capital. Commonwealth Avenue, from Arlington Street to West Chester 
Park, may be said to be practically built up. 

The cost of Mr. Fred L. Ames' residence, on the corner of Dartmouth Street and the avenue, was very 
great. The residence of Governor Ames, corner of West Chester Park, is said to have cost $180,000, exclusive 
of the land. Mr. Nathaniel Thayer's house, on the corner of Fairfield Street cost about $135,000 to build ; and 
on the corner of Gloucester Street and the avenue, Mr. Eugene V. R. Thayer recently completed a residence 
which cost $135,000. This is about as sightly a dwelling as there is on the avenue. On the corner opposite, Mr. 
Charles Francis Adams has erected a very fine dwelling whieli cost about $80,000. The residence of Congress- 
man John F. Andrew, on the corner of Hereford Street, cost about $100,000 to build. One of the hand- 
somest residences on the avenue is that of Mrs. William Powell Mason, located between Dartmouth and 
Exeter Streets, and built at a cost of $61,000. It is of the coming-into-fashion colonial style, and maintains the 
dignity of its ancestry even amid the more modern and artistic structures which are in its vicinity. Between 
Exeter and Fairfield Streets Mr. Alexander Cochran has an elegant residence, which cost in the neighborhood 
of $100,000 to build. The above are all on the north side of Commonwealth Avenue. On the south side of 
the avenue there are also many fine and costly residences of recent erection, ranging all the way from $30,000 
to $50,000 

Beacon Street (from the corner of Arlington Street) has in recent years shown more activity in the erec- 
tion of mansions than any other thoroughfare in this section. This is the most noticeable in the vicinity of and 
beyond West Chester Park. It contains some of the finest residences to be found in this section of palatial 
homes. General Whittier has put up a magnificent building at a cost of $145,000, and a number of other 
dwellings have been erected at a cost varving from $20,000 to $125,000. Beacon Street during the past two 



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89 



years, has shown ii marked ailvam-e in buildinu' improvements, and real estate quotations have consequently 
been increased. 

Boylston Street, in that section overlooking- the Common and the Public Garden — once a fashionable 
residential quarter — is rapidly being given up to business, but beyond the Public Garden, there are many 
handsome residences and the opening out of the street in the region of West Chester Park, will lead to more 
buildings being put up. The Boston & Albany Railroad owns the land on the south side of this thoroughfare, 
west of Exeter Street, and may build a passenger station there. Owing to these conditions and other con- 
tingencies, the north side of the street has not been built upon, with two solitary exceptions, west of Exeter 
Street. That section of Boylston Street, between the Old South parsonage and Exeter Street, north side, has 
been built up mostly within the last live years, with a good class of dwellings, costing on an average about $20,- 
000 each. The Hotel Kensington, one of those fashionable family hotels, is located on the corner of Boylston 
and Exeter Streets. It was erected by Mr. Henry B. 
Williams, at a cost of about $200,000. Land prices 
have all along this street increased amazingly within 
the last few years, and in many places building lots 
command from $12 to $15 per square foot. 

West Chester Park will soon be a busy scene of 
operations among builders, for the opening up of ' 
Boylston Street and the erection of the Harvard Bridge 
has brought this district into the market, and as both 
the thoroughfares just named are the only Back Bay 
Streets on which there are no restrictions as to busi- 
ness structures, it is likely that both will, ere long, be- 
come great centres of trade. 

Almost everywhere in tliis section of tlie city new 
buildings are arising. In this region are some of the 
finest hotels in the country, chief among which are the 
marble Vendome, the imposing Brunswick, and the 
Victoria (the new " Delmonico "). Then there are nu- 
merous first-class apartment houses, the Hotel Berlielev 
being the first erected in the district. On ]>oylston 
Street is the handsome building of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, also the Natural History Society 
Building, the famous Institute of Technology, Trinity 
Church (Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, pastor), one of the finest and most impressive church edifices in the country ; 
and the Second Church (Congregational Unitarian) with chapel adjoining (Rev. E. A. Horton, pastor). The 
society worshipping here once occupied the Old ^forth Church, on North Square, torn down and used for fire- 
wood by British soldiers during the siege of Boston. At one time Ralph Waldo Emerson was the pastor 
of tlie present church. Near this church is the far-famed Chauncy School. Opposite to it, with entrance on 
St. James's Avenue, is the Museum of Fine Arts, and beyond, on the corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets, is 
the Harvard Medical School. Near by, on the corner of Exeter and Newbury Streets, is the Prince School 
building, the only public school in the district. The other corners of Exeter and Newbury Streets are oc- 
cupied by the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) ; the First Spiritual Temple, a costly, curious edifice ; 
and the Massachusetts Normal School. Farther on, on the corner of Boylston and Hereford Streets, is a hand- 
some, new Romanesque building, occupied by the Back Bay police and fire departments. On Dartmouth Street, 
nearly opposite Trinity Church, the immense new Public Library building is being erected and will take years 
to complete. On Exeter Street and St. James Avenue, on December 29th, 1888, was opened the new Athletic 
Association building (erected at a cost of nearly $300,000), the finest edifice of its kind'in the world. The 
New Old South Church — one of the costliest church bnildings in the city — stands on the Dartmouth Street 
side of Copley Square, on the corner of Boylston Street. The society worshipping here formerly occupied the 
historic Old South, on the corner of Washington and Milk Street. Near the New Old South, on Dartmouth 
Street is the handsome new building of the Art Club. Located on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and 




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Clarendon Street is the massive stone edifice of the First Baptist Church (formerly the Brattle Square Congre- 
gational Unitarian). The First Church (Congregational Unitarian) is located on Marlborough Street and 
Berkeley Street. It is the direct descendant of the first church established in Boston. The church was first 
formed in Charlestown, and the members of it, on coming to Boston, built the first meeting house on State 
Street, near where tho Brazer Building stands. The church was afterwards removed on to Washington Street 
near top of State Street, then to Chauncy Place, and, finally to its present location. The Protestant Episco- 
palians have a fine church, with a very rich interior, on Newbury Street, known as the Emmanuel Ciiurch. 




Boston Common— Beacon Street Mall. 

A short distance from it, on the corner of Newbury and Berkeley Streets is the handsome Central Church 
(Congregational Trinitarian), which possesses the tallest spire in the city, the height being 236 feet. On 
Berkeley Street is the Notre Dame Academy, and at the corner of Boylston and Arlington Streets is the widoly 
known Arlington (LTnitarian) Church, of which Rev. Hereford Brooke is pastor. Huntington Avenue has upon 
it the famous exhibition building of the charitable Mechanic Association, covering an area of 96,000 square 
feet, and erected in 1881. A short distance from it is the Children's Hospital, a useful and well-conducted 
institution. There are many other notable residences and buildings, but space will not allow us to treat of 
them separately. 

ROXBURY. 

The thoroughfares leading to it are four, namely, Harrison Avenue, Washington Street, Shawmut Avenue 
and Tiemont Street. This is the order of their succession, viewed laterally, Tremont Street being the most 
westerlv. Columbus Avenue, which lies more to the westward, will in the future be extended through to the 
Roxbury district. At present Washington Street, Shawmut Avenue, Tremont Street and Huntington Avenue 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 91 

are available tlirongliout l>y horse-cars, but the Washington Street route is to bo preferred by the stranger and 
sight-seer. The Roxbury district includes the old city of Roxbury, which was annexed to Boston in 1867. It 
comprises wards 19, 20, 21, and 22, the latter being bounded on the east by West Chester Park, and includ- 
ing, therefore, a portion of tlie Back Bay territory. When first settled it was called Rocksbury, or Rocks- 
borough, and was recognized as a town on October 8, 1630. The town originally included the present West 
Roxbury district (set ofi in 1851) and annexed to Boston in 187.S, Jamaica Plain, and the present town of 
Brookline, known in the early days as- " Punch-bowl Village." William Wood, the first historian of New 
England, writing in 1633, says, after describing Dorchester : — "A mile from this Town (Dorchester) lyolli 
Roxberry, which is faire and handsome Country-towne : the inhabitants of it being all rich. The Towne lieth 
upon the Maine, .so that it is well-wooded and watered : having a cleare and fresh Brooke running through 
tlie Towne ; up which although there come no Alewives, yet there is great store of Smelts, and therefore it 
is called Smelt-brooke. A quarter of a mile to the North-side of the Towne is another River called Stoney- 
river, upon which is built a water-mihie. Here is good ground for Corne and Meadow for Cattle. Up west- 
ward from tlie Towne it is something rocky, whence it has the name of Roxberry," etc. Another writer 
(1654) describes the town as "being filled with a very laborious people, whose labours the Lord hath so blest, 
that in the roome of dismall Swamps and tearing Bushes, they have very goodlie Fruit-trees, fruitful! Fields 
and Gardens, their Heard of Cowes, Oxen and other young Cattell of tliat kind ••ibout 350, and dwelling houses 
neere upon 120. Their streetes are large and some Fayre Houses." 

If inquiries were made of a hundred persons resident in Boston as to where tlie dividing line existed be- 
tween the domains of the two former municipalities, no doubt 99 would not pretend to guess at what the 
hundredth would be likely to miss, yet that line is distinctly marked to-day. One at all curious in this regard 
needs only to bestow his glances when enjoying a horse-car ride in the direction of the suburbs over Wash- 
ington Street, upon a granite curbstone post of the horse-hitching kind, which stands on the sidewalk abut- 
ting the old car station at the extremity of the Neck, near Lenox Street, where it has stood so long that it 
may be considered a landmark. On one side of this stone, m deep-engraved work, is, "R., A.D. 1823." 
On the reverse is a similar inscription, save that B. takes the place of R. This indicates Roxbury and Boston. 
At present the top of this puny shaft is black and greasy, looking as though it had received the caresses of 
many dirty hands, which has doubtless been the case during the last 66 years of its standing as a monitor. 

What, in the parlance of the inhabitants of Roxbury of former days, was denoted as " the street," or " Rox- 
bury Street" (now Washington Street), commenced at this line and terminated at Vernon Street. Here were 
concentrated the shops ; and a considerable degree of business was performed in them, especially before omni- 
bus days. There were several local inns on this street, stopping-places for stages plying to and from Provi- 
dence, as well as for transient travel, .and local imbibing and feasting, to which, if rumor is to be believed, the 
ancient " gudemen " were somewhat devoted. On this " street " in later days were stores that prosecuted a 
large business; and hereabouts reside many old-timers. The "street" of to-day has been considerably elon- 
gated, and includes a great number and variety of stores, presenting quite a metropolitan aspect, both for this 
reason and for the magnitude of business performed there. At no place in the city, save in the main shop- 
ping district, two miles distant, is there more life and activity noticed, especially on Sat.u'day evenings, when 
the citizens of the neighborhood turn out en masse, seemingly to do their shopping, thereby crowding the 
large clothing, dry-goods, boot and shoe, and furniture stores, likewise the many food-providers, the vari- 
ety shops, the several gayly illuminated tea-stores, etc., to repletion, and forming kaleidoscopic throngs surging 
along under the electric lights. There is ''a sight" of difference in this respect, compared with the "fayre" 
street views of the forefathers. 

The territory now lying between the Lenox Street horse-car stables and the Roxbury stables at the 
Providence Railroad crossing, and including the contiguous streets and places, was formerly called Grab 
Village; and the name is still sometimes applied to it This is a picturesque and unique locality, espe- 
cially that part lying towards Tremont Street; and the business signs contain, for the most part, Teutonic 
names. It is, in fact, the mercantile portion of Germantown which is concentrated in this vicinity in conse- 
quence of the number of breweries in Roxbury, Boylston Station and Jamaica Plains, with which hundreds of 
the inhabitants are connected. Where or when the sobriquet of "Grab Village" came to be applied is a pro- 
found mystery to the present generation. The oldest inhabitant of the region knows naught regarding the 
inception of such a queer name. 



92 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

Sixty years ago this territory was flooded by tlie tides of the Back Bav, and its (inly inhabitants were 
fishes and birds. In 1832, the Tremont Road (now Tremont Street) liad been filled in, laid out, and became 
open for travel from Pleasant Street, South End, to Roxbury. Both sides of this roadway were marshes cov- 
ered with water when the tide was m. Other land was acquired in the vicinity by the process in which most 
of the present South End and all of Back Bay were secured. Lots were quickly taken, and houses sprung up 
like magic. The outflow from South End — then a contracted and crowded region — took this direction nat- 
urally. Practically, it amounted to an exodus from the city to suburban homes, for there existed no means of 
public conveyance ; and this necessitated the keeping of horses or long walks with business men who located 
there. In many respects it proved to be a charming place for residence, and, in fact, that portion of the city 
lias always borne a good reputation for healthfulness. Gardens were planted, fruit-trees were set out, ;uid 
shortly the locality gained credit for its lovely show of flowers and the quality of its fruit. While it has lost 
much of its former aspect. Grab Village has assumed other peculiarities which make it a very lively part of 
tlie city. The Tremont Street portion, from end to end of its three-fourths-raile length, is a busy mart of traffic. 
Stores of many kinds fine both sides of the street. In no otlier part of Boston, away from the shopping dis- 
trict, excepting perhaps on Broadway, South Boston, is such a condition to be found. Some of these stores, 
in extent and appearance, witli their large plate-glass windows filled with nice dress goods, etc., rival down- 
town concerns, and no doubt their patronage is commensurate with their spirit of enterprise. Veritably, Grab 
Village is a city in itself, covering over portions of several wards, and numbering a population high up in 
double numbers of thousands. Despite its seemingly derisive title, it constitutes a portion of the city that 
bears a good reputation ; and that is highly cherished by the residents. 

But let us return to the old boundary line between Boston and Roxbury — at the Neck, near the horse- 
railway stables, beside Lenox Street, for tliis is a historic spot. It was here that the American troops who 
were engaged in the siege of Boston erected strong fortifications and planted heavy batteries, to resist any 
attempt of the British troops to get into the country from the city. A few rods beyond this point is one of 
Roxbury's old landmarks — the venerable burying-ground, corner of Eustis and Washington Streets, where the 
remains of the Apostle Eliot lie. This ground has been sadly neglected in the past, and bears marks of dese- 
cration at present. In its vaults were deposited many of the bodies of the notabilities in Roxbury of colonial 
times. A writer of the olden time describes Eliot as " a young man at his coming thither, of a cheerful spirit, 
walking unblameable, of a godly conversation ; apt to teach, as by his indefatigable paines both with his own 
flock and the poore Indians doth appeare ; whose language he learned purposely to helpe them to the knowl- 
edge of God in Christ," etc. His body, together with those of five other pastors of the First Parish, rests in 
the " parish tomb," and near by it are the graves of Governor Thomas Dudley, Governor Joseph Dudley, and 
Chief Justice Paul Dudley. 

Proceeding a little beyond this resting-place of the forefathers, and still continuing on Washington Street, 
we reach Eustis Street, where the travel is divided into three principal lines. To the right, Roxbury Street 
stretches to Eliot Square, better known as Norfolk House neighborhood, on account of the large hotel there. 
To the left, Warren Street sweeps away through what were recently rural pastures toward Central Dorchester 
by the way of Grove Hall. At these points of divergence the principal stores, banks, public institutions, post- 
office, public halls, etc., of Roxbury are located. Washington Street extends towards Jamaica Plains, sweeps 
past Forest Hill Station and the noted cemetery of that name ; and along its course is beautiful scenery and 
several old-fashioned mansions, each with an interesting story of its own of the past. The old First Parish 
Church, on Eliot Square, is an object of great interest as a splendid specimen of Puritan church architecture. 
It stands on elevated land, which was fortified by General Washington to command the roads from Boston. 
About a quarter of a mile to the southwest were still stronger works, known as the Roxbury Fort, whereon is 
now located the standpipe of the Boston Water-works, which, as an architectural column, is an object of 
great beauty. 

Roxbury, small as she was, had a conspicuous part in the events of the Revolution. It was the native 
place of the immortal Warren, Heath, and Greaton, and the residence and burial-place of Dearborn — all generals 
in the Continental Army. The old Roxburyites have sliown in various ways that they have not forgotten the 
heroes of those trying times. 

Here is the great public pleasure-ground of forests and fields, formerly known as Roxbury, and now as 
Franklin Park, to which thousands daily find their way in the summer from all parts of the city. Not alone 



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is the park an olijfCt of lioaiitv, Imt tlic wliole region of Roxbury, which in late years has become a favorite 
residential cjuarter, and consequently has experienced a large growth in population. 

As we have already observed, Roxbury comprises four wards of the city. These wards contain more than 
one .sixth of the polls of the city of Boston, which is a good index of the extent of their population. The 
same thing will show their growth in population in the past five years. In 1883, the number of polls in them 
was, in round numbers, 19,000; in 1888, it was 23,000 — an increase of 4000 in the five years. The valua- 
tion of these four wards will also show their advance in material wealth. In 1883, their total valuation was 
$59,324,900 ; in 1888, it was $74,394,800 — an increase of $15,069,900 in five years, a most encouraging 
showing. This great advance in po[iulation is due, in the first place, to Roxbury, with its high lands, abound- 
ing in the finest sites for residence, and being so situated that Boston seems to natually merge into it, and to 




Boston Common — Tremont Street Mall. 



form a part of the city itself in reality, while still retaining many rural features. Another important fact is 
that there are several parallel lines of liorse-railway penetrating every section of the district, and these led to 
the more convenient localities being seized upon for dwellings, and to the building of apartment-hou.ses in 
great numbers. But even these failed to provide for all who wanted liomes, and the territory beyond was 
encroached upon. On one of the main avenues. Warren Street, as far as Grove Hall, the drift of population 
found a way, as well as on Washington Street on the west and Blue Hill Avenue on the east, which crosses 
Warren Street in its course at Orove Hall. These streets and their affluents furnished land for dwelling pur- 
poses, which was utilized from time to limo, until to-day there is but little land, comparatively, left in the 
limits of old Roxbury to build on, the last of the considerable farm properties (the Horatio Harris estate) 
being now in process of arrangement to be put upon the market. Land has consequently appreciated in value; 
for lots which five years ago or less were bought for 15 to 20 cents a foot are now held at from 40 to 60 
cents per square foot. Walnut .\ venue, running in a southwesterly direction from Warren Street, and nearly 
parallel to Washington Street, up to Franklin Park, opened up a district for settlement, in which many fine 
and costly mansions have been constructed in the past tiftcen years or more. In the territorv northwest and 



94 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

southeast of this avenue, and especially in the latter sections, there have been Liiilt in the past five years a large 
number of very fine dwellings. This section is known as Elm Hill ; and on Elm Hill Avenue, and between it 
and Walnut Avenue, some of the best houses are located. Many of these are veritable palaces, representing 
all styles of architecture and varying in cost from $12,000 to $60,000. Many of them are surrounded with 
trees, shrubbery, flower gardens, or grassy lawns, adding to the beauty and attraction of the streets and av- 
enues as excellent driveways. Walnut Avenue, Humboldt Avenue, and Elm Hill Avenue all lead up to Frank- 
lin Park, and the two latter end at Seaver Street, which skirts its northern side. The park is of vast extent, 
and, as no residential buildings can be put upon it, the rush of settlement in that direction to some extent has 
been stopped, and the operations here in the future will be the filling up of the gaps now existing, with the 
result in a few years of a compactly built district, though, compared with that north of it, owing to the nature 
of its settlement, it will be a great many years before houses in it are crowded so closely together. In other 
sections of the district, dwellings are rising rapidly. On nearly every street, from Dudley Street to Grove 
Hall, new houses have been erected in the past five years, either by those who had them built for their own 
use or to let or for sale ; but there have been but few'erections for business purposes in the district in the 
same period. 

On the northwest side of the Roxbury district is Parker Hill, a splendid location, overlooking the city, 
and on which is located the Parker Hill Reservoir. Its high and favorable location places it in the line of 
future occupation. 

THE DORCHESTER DISTRICT 

which forms the twenty-fourth ward of the city, is delightfully situated on Dorchester Bay, an arm of Boston 
Harbor, and in a healthy, attractive and picturesque region. It is to-day one of the most interesting of the 
outlying districts of the city, and is a favorite place of suburban residence. It is, too, an historic place, and 
was established as a town on the same date as Boston itself. On the 20th of March, 1629-30, "that grftit 
ship of 400 tons," the Mary and John, set sail from Plymouth, England, for the New World, and during the 
ten weeks of the voyage the party on board, including two clergyman. Revs. Meverick and Warham, spent 
every day " in preaching or expounding the word of God." The ship, which was commanded by Captain 
Squeb, landed on May 30, 1630, at Nantasket (now Hull), where the captain turned his passengers adrift into 
the "forlorn wilderness," though his contract bound him to carry them to the Charles River. They found their 
way to Dorchester, then called Mattapan by the Indians, by whom they were well received. They at once 
changed the name to Dorchester, after the town of the same name in England. Dorchester has its quaint old 
town-hall; its ancient meeting-house and magnificent soldiers' monument on Meeting-IIouse Hill ; at Uf ham's 
Corner the graves of several eminent public men of the Colonial and Provincial periods; and Jones's Hill 
affords from its summit one of the finest and most extensive views in the neighborhood of Boston. North- 
ward is seen the old city and the famous Dorchester Heights. Westward is presented an amphitheatre of hills 
and villages. Southward is a wide and deep intervale, the famous Blue Hills of Milton showing up on the 
horizon. Near at hand in this direction is observed Meoting-House Hill, capped by the First Parish Church 
and by the Soldiers' Monument of red Gloucester granite, rising to a height of 31 feet, and erected in 1867. 
Looking eastward the eye embraces within the range of vision nearly all the islands of the harbor, the harbor 
itself and its shipping, and the ocean in the extreme distance, while near at hand is Savin Hill, rich in rustic 
beauty and commanding charming views. An object of special interest and one meriting inspection is the 
Lyman Fountain, which is located on Eaton Square, a sightly and beautiful spot, well chosen for its situation. 
The fountain occupies the sight of a famous old tavern — the Eaton Tavern, kept by a once equally famous 
Captain Eaton. 

Of this handsome fountain we give a fine illustration in these pages. It was erected in memory of one of 
Boston's noblest and revered sons, the late Theodore Lyman, Jr., who was mayor of the city in 1834-35. 
Mr. Lyman was a descendant from one of the pilgrim fathers who came from England to the Old Bay State in 
1631 in the same ship that bronght John Eliot. Mr. Lyman was born in Boston on February 20, 1792, and 
his father was one of the city's merchant princes. He received his early education at Phillips Academy, Exe- 
ter, N. H., and graduated at Harvard College in 1810. He afterwards became a student in the famous Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, and then travelled extensively throughout Europe. In 1820 he published a 
work of much merit entitled " The Political State of Italv," and in the same year delivered the Fourth of 



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July oration before the town authorities of Boston. In 1826 he published an important work, " Tiie Diplo- 
macy of the United States." From 1820 to 1823 he was aide-de-camp to Governor Brooks, and from 1823 to 
1827 was commander of the Boston Brigade. From 1820 to 1825 he was a member of the Massaclinsetts 
Legislature, occupying a seat in the Senate in 1824. In 1834 and 1835 he was mayor of Boston, and gave 
the city a dignified, fearless, and able administration, during a period that called for unusual qualities in her 
chief magistrate. He was a large hearted, generous man, and many noble public institutions had their useful- 
ness developed by his munificence. One of his most intimate friends spoke of him as " a pure, loving, devoted 
man, of unusual grace or bearing and manly beauty," who " used the gifts of God as His steward, and not for 
his own indulgences." He died on July 18, 1849, but he continued to live in the memories of his friends, 
who, thirty-six years after his demise, determined to erect some tangible memorial of him. The leader in 
this movement was the Honorable Nahum Capen, and the erection of a water fountain was decided upon. A 
sum of two thousand dollars was quickly subscribed, and an application was made for an allowance from the 
Phillips Fund, the munificent gift of Jonathan Phillips, who gave by his will to the city of Boston, in 1860, 
the sum of $20,000, as a trust fund, the income of which shall be annually e-xpended to adorn and embellish 




Memopy of Theo. Lyman, Jp., 



Dorehestep 



the streets and public places in the city. The authorities voted from this fund towards the cost of the foun- 
tain $4050, and a further sum of $175 for incidentals. 

The site for the fountain in Eaton Square was selected by Mr. William Doogue, the city forester, and the 
commission to design and construct the fountain was entrusted to Mr. M. D. Jones, of the firm of M. D. Jones 
& Co., No. 76 Washington Street. The design is original. The structure is of fine proportions, rich in orna- 
mentation, and is believed to be the highest and handsomest fountain in the New England States. It rises to 
an altitude of 26 feet. The basin is of Monson granite, and 33 feet in diameter. The first pan is 12 feet and 
6 inches in diameter ; the .second pan 6 feet and 8 inches. The surmounting groups of figures represent 
Venus, Cupid and swan, while the figures about the pedestal.^ stand for the four seasons. The supply of water 
is from three pipes attached to a 3-inch main, a sixty-pound pressure providing ample force. One of these 
pipes discharges through the swan's mouth and through four dragons on the first pedestal and four griffins, 
between the first and second pans. Another furnishes a supply for one hundred and forty -four jets in the rim 
of the first pan, and eighty in the second, while the third pipe feeds the four cascades at the base of the ped- 
estal. The water from the jets does not overflow the pan, but discharges through four gargoyle heads. The 
fountain proper is of bronzed iron and zinc. The whole reflects the highest credit upon Mr. Jones. His 



96 ILLUSTRATEDBOSTON. 

experience as a designer and builder of fountains in various parts of New England has been extensive, but tliis 
is one of his most ambitious undertakings as well as one of his most successful achievements. The basin was 
constructed by Mr. John Kelly, a Boston contractor. The fountain, in its playing power, has realized all 
expectations. Cut in the granite basin is this legend: — "In memory of Theodore Lyman, Jr., mayor of Bos- 
ton in 1834-35;" and upon a bronze plate attached to the basin is this inscription. — "This fountain as a 
memorial was originated by Nahura Capen, designed and constructed by M. D. Jones, Boston, locsited by 
William Doogue, city forester, accepted and dedicated by Hugh O'Brien, Mayor, October 24, 1885." 

The occasion of the dedication service was a red letter day in the annals of Dorchester. Around the 
fountain a large and interested company of prominent persons gathered, the Germania Band was in attendance, 
the fountain was accepted by Mayor O'Brien as a gift to the city, and speeches were delivered appropriate to 
the occasion by Honorable Marshall P. Wilder, Honorable C. Winthrop, Rev. Peter Ronau, Honorable Lcver- 
ett Saltonstall, and Honorable Nahum Capen. 

Dorchester, which was annexed to Boston, June 22, 1869, has, since it was accorded good railway and 
horse-car accommodation, enjoyed a large and steady growth in population and in popularity as a residential 
section. Hotels, apartment-houses and costly dwellings are more numerous than they were a few years ago. 
Farm lands are being constantly cut up into streets and offered to those who desire to build, and as a result 
there is a steady increase in the value of property. Since 1883, it is safe to say that there have been built in 
the Dorchester district from 700 to 1000 houses of various styles and grades of cost, the great majority of 
them being single dwellings. In that year the real estate valuation of Dorchester was $17,797,600. In 1888, 
it was $22,913,300, being gain of $5,115,700 or at the rate of over $1,000,000 of gain in this item of valua- 
tion per year. The number of polls in 1883 was 4981, and in 1888 it was 6803, or nearly 2000 gain. The 
gain in population has been a substantial one, and is due quite largely to the good railway accommodation 
afforded, as well as to the horse-railwav lines and low fares. 

STREETS AND AVENUES. 

Boston is the most like an English city of any place on the American continent both, in the peculiarity of 
its ancient buildings and in the tortuous windings of its oldest streets. The crookedness of the streets, formed 
on the lines of old cow-paths, makes an unceasing puzzle to strangers to find their way about, and yet these 
twists and turns afford good opportunity for the display of architectural qualities of buildings, and add much 
to the picturesque appearance of the city. Millions of dollars have been expended in straightening old 
thoroughfares and in effecting improvements, but tliere are curves and bendings that will ever remain unless 
another conflagration like that of 1872 slionld involve the old parts of the city in ruins and provide an op- 
portunity for remapping the section in " square cuts." The modern wards of the city, however, are laid out 
in Babylonian rectangularity, with streets that are broad and straight, and vistas ending on hills in the suburbs. 
Streets and avenues are being increased in number or lengtli year by year, for there are thirty-two more miles 
of streets now, in 1889, than there were four years ago, the total munbers now being 412. The streets are most 
efficiently sewered, for Boston has the most perfect sewerage system of any city in the country ; and this has 
been attained at immense cost. The thoroughfares are sufficiently illuminated. At this writing there are 
within the city limits the following street lamps in use: Gas, 10,104; oil, 2994; electrics, 704; large gas- 
lamps, 74; naptha lamps, 49 ; total, 13,925. 

The streets are divided up into twenty-five wards, and there are 202 miles of street-railway tracks. For- 
merly there were some six street-railroad companies in Boston, and some opposition in consequence but a year 
or two ago these corporations amalgamated, or formed a " trust," so that one huge corporation now controls 
the whole street-railroad system, not only in the city, but the suburbs also. The company have in use 1912 
cars, and are now introducing electric cars through the Back Bay district, Brighton, Brookline, etc. and 
ere long it is likely these cars will come into general use. One need not be a prophet, however, to foresee the 
time when the elevated railroad will be one of the institutions of Boston. The Meigs plan of elevated railroad, 
now being introduced into Chicago, has been proposed, and a short experimental line built in Cambridge. By 
this plan the use of a ponderous, smoke-producing locomotive is entirely done away with, and in its stead is 
used the most improved form of the electric motor, the power of which is transmitted through a third rail and 
applied to every third car by a simple device hidden in the bottom of the vehicle, and which is under the im- 
mediate and perfect control of an attendant. The weight and size of the supporting posts are reduced to the 



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minimum compatible vfith safety ; and, as all the structure is of iron and steel, the obstruction to light and 
trafRj is almost inconsiderable. Every precaution has been taken in regard to safety, and the speed that can be 
acquired is one of the especial feature of the system. The expense at which the road can be constructed is 
marvellously small, and its operating expenses will also be much less than those of any other road — facts which 
will result immediately to the public benefit by allowing the fares to be placed at a very low point. 

Of the architectural changes to be noticed in a walk through Boston's streets, the following, written re- 
cently by Mr. A. W. Barrett, is apropos : 

"In place of the old buildings destroyed by the devouiing element, have sprung up huge edifices imposing 
in their size and extent, and in some cases of architectural beauty. It is a fact easily proven that the archi- 
tectural styles of Boston have closely followed the prevailing ones of the same period in Europe. Early in the 
century there was a Greek revival, the principal monuments of which are the Court and Custom houses, the 
Tremont House, Quincy Market and St. Paul's Ciiurch. In 1838 began the Gothic period, an example of 
which is found in Old Trinity Church. Then followed the ' French-roof style. The Deacon, Ilousc on Wash- 
ington, Concord, and Worcester Streets, was probably the first building of this style in the country. W' ith the 
increase of popular travel, the influence of foreign models became more strongly felt in a great variety of styles. 
Northern and Southern Gothic, Romanesque and Renaissance, Frencli Renaissance, became extremely popular 
and are the styles of many business and public building.s, including the City Hall and Post-office. Gothic has 
remained the favorite for churches. A peculiarity of Boston architecture is the richness and variety of. the 
building-material. The prevailing material is red brick, but there is an abundance of light, dark, and red 
granite , brown, yellow, and bufi sandstones; a variety of marble, Roxbury pudding-stone, and other material. 
When a ' big building" is mentioned, one naturally thinks of a huge edifice conspicuous for its size, and stand- 
ing alone like a giant pine above the scrubby undergrowth. Examples of tliis kind of buildings are not un- 
common in Boston ; and yet it must be borne in mind that there are hundreds of ' big buildings,' side by side 
for blocks and blocks that are worthy of the title, though they do not strike a spectator so forcibly as a build- 
ing like the Mason Building, which stands by itself." 

TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES AND COMMERCE. 

At the close of the war of the Revolution, Boston was the most influential community in America, but 
now there are two cities of greater importance and four larger in population. Then she took the lead in com- 
merce, now, although her trade is immense, she occupies a second-rate position. Her shipping interests are, 
however, multiplying, and she is growing in popularity as the western port of several lines of British steamships, 
doing an immense and increasing freight business, and favored by the depth and security of the harbor and by 
the marginal railways, which allow freight vans to be run directly out upon the docks. The distance from 
Boston to Liverpool is shorter than from Philadelpliia to Liverpool by, 370 miles. New York to Southampton, 
by 260 miles, and New York to Liverpool by 160 miles. The liarbor of Boston is the most picturesque on 
the coast, is of ample dimensions, and of suflBcient depth to accommodate the largest vessels afloat. Her 
wharves are extensive, and upon them are built largo warehouses. The city, too, is the starting-point for eight 
extensive railway lines, and the lieadquarters for numerous railroad corporations. Her transportation facilities are 
therefore of the most extensive and complete character. The Inman Steamsliip Company, it is reported, in- 
tends to establish a line of steamers between Boston and Europe to compete with the Cunard and other lines 
already located here. The tendency of recent railroad construction in the Northwest, and the developments in 
trade that are promised in that quarter, all liave the outlook of largely increasing the merits of Boston as a 
point of shipment for the export and import trade of this country. The old combinations made by the trunk 
lines have given in the past certain advantages in rates to New York and Philadelphia; but it is questionable 
whether these can be maintained in the future. Then, beside having a large advantage, so far as ocean dis- 
tance is concerned, over Philadelphia, and a considerable gain over New York, Boston has hitherto enjoyed 
the merit, when compared with the latter place, of low-er port charges for the vessels which come here. Bos- 
ton may perliaps never hope to compete with New York as the great centre of tlie export and import trade of 
this country; but, as this trade is constantly increasing, there is no reason why it should not maintain its rela- 
tive position; arid there are some reasons for thinking tliat it may in tlie next few years have a larger propor- 
tionate share of this business than it has enjoyed in the past. As an indication of the extent of the foreign 



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sliipping trade now done, it may be here stiUc-d that the receipts for duties at the Custom-house amounted in 
1888 to $21,166,212.31. 

Boston is the great centre, too, for internal traffic, especially in food products, shoes, leatlier, macliinery, 
rubber, dry goods, etc.; and in all these great ecJminodities there is an increase year by year, the record for last 
year being largely in e.\cess of that of previous years. The city has its Shoe and Leatlier Exchange, Boston 




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Commercial Exchange, Produce Exchange, Chamber of Commerce, New England Furniture Exchange, Fish 
Bureau, Board of Trade, Firemen's Exchange, Boston Board of Marine Underwriters, Boston Board of Trade, 
Boston Fire Underwriter's Union, Boston Grocers' Association, Boston Merchants' Association, Master Build- 
ers' Association, National Association Wool Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, 
New Enfjland Retail Grocers' Association, New England Saddlery Hardware Association, Mechanics' Exchange, 
Merchants' Exchange and Reading-room, etc. 

Financial facilities are afforded by sixty national and several private banks, seven trust companies, and 
thirteen savings banks; and numerous home and foreign insurance companies afford protection against losses 
by fire to buildings, merchandise, and other property. 

SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES. 

Boston has always occupied a prominent position among the American cities in respect to Jiterarj' and 
scientific culture. She has been liberal in her provision of public libraries and schools, which are renowned all 
over the country for their number, affluence, and efficiency. The public schools are under the direction of a 
school committee, elected by the popular vote, a superintendent, and several supervisors. There are 530 regular 
schools with 1253 teachers and over 58,000 pupils, and 21 .special schools with 151 teachers and 4086 pupils. 



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In addition to these, there are evening schools, attended by about 1900 pupils. (_»n June 12, 1888, the school 
board discontinued Swinton's " Outlines of History " from the textbooks of the English High-school, at Rev. 
Theodore A. Metcalf's instigation, for a harmless paragraph about the sale of indulgences while Leo X. was 
pope. This would not have created any great amount of popular feeling, perhaps, but, on the 19th of June, 
the school board accepted a report transferring Mr. C. B. Travis from Ins post as teacher of history m the Eng- 
lish High-school, to another duty. This action of the board created much public indignation, which was ex- 
pressed in various ways. A tremendous meeting was held at Faneuil Hall on the evening of July lltli, and an 
overflow meeting at Tremont Temple, to protest against the displacement of Swinton's " Outlines" from the 
textbooks of the English High-school and transferring Mr. Travis from the historical department of that 
school. This was one of the most memorable meetings held in Faneuil Hall during recent years. It took the 

initial steps towards forming 
a committee of one hundred 
that wielded a marked influ- 
ence upon the city election. 
Women were enlisted in the 
movement to reconstruct the 
school board so that it might 
be freed from mischievous 
ecclesiastical control, and sev- 
eral associations were formed 
to promote the assessment and 
registration of women to vote 
for school committee. The 
Loyal Women of American 
Liberty, Independent Women 
Voters of Boston, School 
Suffrage Association, Bunker 
Hill Educational Association, 
and Women's Christian Tem- 
perance Union took an active 
part in this work. The assess- 
_ _^^^ _ _ ment of women elicited a 

ll?^N 1^ ft - * "^=5;^"^" "^^""^ * '°'^ °'^ Music. spirited trial of strength be- 

-IIlji Ifb- ^^.1 ^r -"-""" ^ ~ - tween Protestants and Catholics. The Republican city convention 

to nominate mayor and school committee assembled on the evening 
of Nov. 16th, and on the first ballot nominated Thomas N. Hart for mayor. A committee 
was selected to nominate eleven members of the school board. Subsequently the Re- 
publicans nominated a ticket for school committee, which was indorsed by the committee of one hundred and 
the women's associations affiliating with them. A vigorous canvass was made in its behalf by the committee of 
one hundred and the women's organizations acting with them. This ticket had no Catholics upon it, but a 
women's ticket was sent to every woman registered, having upon it the names of Messrs. Williamson, Dunn, and 
Canning, then members of the school board, who voted to reject Swinton's "Outlines" and transfer Mr. Travis. 
Besides this, there was a regular Democratic woman's ticket. Mr. Hart accepted the Republican nomination on 
a non-partisan platform entirely. A citizens' movement, into which the British element threw all its influence 
and zeal, was started in his favor, and .snbse(|uently put a school committee ticket m the field, embracing, among 
others, the names of Caroline E. Hastings, Messrs. Williamson, Dunn, Canning, and Collison of the present 
school board. The Republican canvass for the city government was made on the issue of reform and the 
necessityof an entire change in methods at City Hall. The appeal was made to all parties, but a potent factor 
was the determination of the women to rebuke the school board for submitting to priestly control. Mr. Hart 
was elected mayor on the Uth of December by a plurality of '2021. The Republicans elected two thirds of 
the aldermen, and gained in the Common Council. It was a rout of the City Hall ring. The people em- 
phatically condemned the school board by electing the entire Republican ticket for school committee, which 




100 • ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 

has been indorsed by the Committee of One Hundred. The city voted for license by a majority of J 7,651, 
against 8483 last year. An enormons vote was polled, considering the heavy, penetrating rain wliicli pre- 
vailed. The total for mayor fell short of the presidential vote only 1550. Of the twenty-one thousand woman 
registered, seventeen thousand voted under the most disagreeable circumstances as regards the weather. But 
this did not appear to daunt them in the least. They labored zealously and effectively from the opening to 
the closing of the polls, were everywhere treated with consideration, and had the satisfaction of having con- 
tributed very materially to the election of the Republican school committee ticket, made up wholly of Pro- 
testants. The school committee, as elected, consists of: Caroline Hastings (one year), W. A. Mowry (two 
years), Laliah B. Pingree, W. S. Allen, R. C. Humphreys, T. J. Emery, S. B. Capen, Dr. W. C. Green, Solomon 
Schindler, J. P. G. Winship, Dr. Liberty Packard. 

There are over 220 churches in the city, representing all sects of religionists, and some of these and their 
pastors have won fame both at home and abroad. 

THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 

Boston received its city charter in 1822; and the government comprises a mayor, a board of 12 alder- 
men and a common council consisting of 73 representatives of the 25 wards. The executive power was for- 
merly vested in the mayor and aldermen, but the law of 1885 (Stat. 1885, ch. 266), amending the charter of 
Boston, vests all executive power in the mayor, but retains, with very few exceptions, all the boards, commis- 
sions, trustees, and separate departments or ofBces existing at that time or since established. The number of 
these separate bodies exceeds 50, some of whom are not even required to publish regular reports. The election 
takes place annually on the Tuesday after the second Monday in December. From what has already been 
.stated in connection with the election of the school committee (conducted at the same time) that of the mayor, 
aldermen and councilmen was, in December, 1888, an excitable one, and resulted in arresting the executive 
power so long held by the Democrats, by the Republicans, with the aid of the women and the British citizens. 

The police force, numbering 800 men, some three years ago was taken from under the control of the civic 
authorities and placed under that of the State. Not including druggists, 1561 places were in 1888 licensed in 
the city for the sale of intoxicating drink, or one to every 263 persons, the population of the city on January 1, 
1889, being computed at 410,688. The law of 1888 (chapter 340) demands the reduction of these licenses to 
781, or exactly one half. The fire department is one of the most efficient in the country, and the water-supjily 
is of a most adequate and excellent character. 

THE CLIMATE AND HEALTH. 

The climate of Boston is severe, especially in winter and spring; but the intense heats of summer are tem- 
pered by refreshing east winds, which fill the streets with the salty smell of the adjacent ocean. The death- 
rate in 1888 was 24.57 for each 1000 inhabitants, against 25.18 per 1000 in 1887. 

THE SUBURBS. 

No city has more attractive and picturesque suburbs than Boston, and it would take volumes to consider 
the traits and beauties of those outlying districts. 

Many popular summer resorts are by the .sea, and the most charming and most visited of these are Nan- 
tasket Beach, Revere Beach, and Point of Pines. A sail down the beautiful harbor is one of the .special de- 
lights of Bostonians, and a pleasure which no visitor should forego. 



ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



The pages that follow contain many of the representative houses of this metropolis, and in 
connection with the illustrated portion of the work will be found profitable and interesting. 



SPBINf? LANE FURNISHING COMPANY, Gents' Furnish- 
ing Goods, No. 279 Wasliiugton Street.— A point o£ in- 
terest and comfort, close to tlie Old Sontii Cliurcli, at 
No. 279 Wasliington Street, and two doors from Scliool 
Street, is a spot, wlilcii tliough it at first presents nu strii;- 
ing appearance on tlie outside, is nevertlieiess in a quiet way 
one of tlie best linown and most largely frequented of any of 
the places in this busy locality; for it is always prodnctive of 
comfort and satisfaction to Bostonians .and visitors. Tlie rea- 
son why this is tlie headquarters for the business men of tliis 
vicinity, as well as tlie stopping for those wlio are on their way 
to or from the various railway stations are tliese: First. At 
this store can be obtained all tlie best and latest varieties of 
gents' furnishing goods. Second. Immediate attention is given; 
no time is lost by customer in waiting, .at tlie times wlien the 
patronage is very large the number of clerks is doubled. The 
Spring Lane Funiishiiig Company buys direct from the most reli- 
able manufacturers and is one of thelirst in the city to import latest 
novelties in neckwear (every known style), shirts, collars, cuffs, 
underwear, hosiery, suspenders, gloves, and umbrellas with hun- 
dreds of notions for gents' outfits. The beautiful display of goods, 
artistic arrangement of store, and scrupulous neatness and polite- 
ness of clerks are very pleasing. Laundry work. In order to meet 
the large demand in tliis direction a slide has been made into 
whicli parcels can be dropped from the outside any time, day or 
night, without stopping to come into store. Three of the best 
laundries make daily calls. This company is especially to be con- 
gratulated in having for the person in charge at the store Mr. W. 
B. Diiiper, who has been so long connected with this business and 
whose management and attention have been so universally accept- 
able. 

MACULLAR, PARKER & CO., A Representative New Eng 
land Clothing House, Nos. 398 and 400 W.ashington Street. 
The recent .addition of a department for boys' and youths' 
clothing to the other blanches of business at Macullar, 
Parker & Co.'s advances that house still another step in the cloth 
and clothing trade. They carry on a great business, as will be 
seen by tlie following sumtnary of operations: To begin with, they 
are direct importers of fine woolens, with a sampling office at No. 
30 Golden Square, London ; they are jobbers of piece goods, having 
correspondence with merchant tailors in almost every state and 
territory in the United States, with agencies in New York and Chi- 
cago. In connection with the jobbing department, they employ a 
force of specialists, who shrink and finish, after the London man- 
ner, all goods requiring that treatment. Entrance to tliis depart- 
ment is from Hawley Street. They run a series of shops or halls 
for manufacturing ready-made clothing, and others for custom- 
work. They sell at ret.ail to men. youths and boys everything 
needed for dress and general equipment, except hats and .shoes— 
their furnishing goods and shirt department being a familiar fea- 
ture of trade to all Bostonians. They employ upwards of six hun- 



dred men and women, by whom, all the year round, the words 
"h.aid times and dull season "are never heard, and to whom every 
favorable consideration in the way of satisfactory wages, vaca- 
tions, early closing, and weekly half-holidays all through July and 
Augu.st, cheerful, well-lighied, well-ventilated, and commodious 
working quarters, is accorded as a matter of simple right and 
propriety. All these things can only go with a prosperous and 
well-ordered house. One great feature here also is the exceptional 
variety and quantity of fine piece goods distributed to the mer- 
chant tailoring trade, as well as the amount cut up in tlie shops on 
the premises. The con.stant services of one hundred and fifty peo- 
ple are required in the custom department, nine of wlioin are cut- 
ters, with but very lew idle hours in the year. This .ah ne implies an 
immense stock of piece goods, and the re.ady-made shops are of 
more than twice that capacity. In respect of operationsin strictly 
fine goods, therefore, this firm is not surpassed by any other 
in America. Tlie great Scotch mills on the Tweed and Yarrow, 
and the Dee and Don, and the equally celebivated looms in the 
west of England and in France .and Germany, contribute their 
standard coiitings and suitings; wliile the best home mills are 
called upon for their leading specialties notably the Middlesex 
yacht cloths and the excellent rough-faced goods from the George's 
River Mills in Maine. Jlore people wear ready-made goods than 
formerly in proportion of ten to one, and they dress better, too, in 
proportion simply as they take p.aiiis in finding the best shops. It 
is only a matter of a little discernment and discrimination. A house 
like Macullar, Parker &Co. keeps the standard advanced so high 
that all trade novelties and betterments gravitate naturally to its 
quarters in search of recognition and illustration. Its reputation 
gives iminedi.ate character and circulation to meritorious devices in 
loom-work. Chemistry and the elements are cited to attend here 
in.the interests of pure woolens. The sun and the rain bring to 
light and view all surface crudities and all h.alf-way coloring. 
The dyer's hand must be cunning, indeed, that can evade these 
irresistible natural forces. Is there a suspicion of cotton where 
the contract calls for all-wool ? Then in goes a .sample section of 
the cloth to contend with boiling chemicals m a crucible heated to 
the hottest degree of Fahrenheit. Sometimes the result justifies 
the suspicion. The mass gradually revolves itself to its original 
elements. The wool, being of the animal, takes on the appearance 
of a formless solution, while a tell-tale insoluble residum of intact 
cotton fibre (being of the vegetable kingdom and proof against the 
acid) .attests at once the scope of chemistry and the finesse prac- 
ticed by certain weavers. The house of Maeuller, Parker & Co. 
dates back to 1849. It has gone on from year to year without a 
single interruption save one sharp trial by fire, gaining strength 
and popularity as a conservator of correct business principles, and 
with a widespread reputation for producing the best clotliing at 
prices proportioned to intrinsic values, and therefore upon a scale 
fairly adjusted as between buyer and seller. Its outlook for a 
great business, bounded by no local lines, w.as never fairer than it 
is to-day. 



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CRAWFORD HOUSE, European Plan, (ioodwin & Kimbacli, 
Piopiietors, Nos. 83 Court to 19 Brattle Streets.— One of tlie 
most popular, most largely patronized and most ably eon- 
, ducted hotels in Boston is unquestionably the Crawford 

' House. It is just such comfortable and perfectly run houses as 
this that are full and make money while the badly kept old-style 
hotels make poor showings. The Crawford was established fully 
twenty-five years ago by Messrs. Stunicke & Goodwin, and whose 
liberal policy, able methods and central location of house, secured 
to them a large and-growing patronage. In 1886, Mr. Stumcke died 
after a lengthy career of efficient and progressive management, 
and was succeeded by Mr. Henry Goodwin, under the name and 
style of Henry Goodwin & Co. On Jan. 1st, 1889, he took into 
copartnership Mr. George H. Rimbacli, nephew of the late Mr. 
Stumcke, a native of Boston, and though still a young man, 



thorough system of organization. The restaurant and bar are on 
the Brattle Street side, and are strictly first-class in every respect. 
The large measure of patronage enjoyed, including the best 
classes of the commercial and traveling public, permanent resi- 
dents, etc., indicates the superior inducements offered, and no 
hotel in Boston is more worthy of an extended and influential 
class of patronage. 

ALFRED A. CLATUR, Dealer in All Kmds of Leather Rem- 
nants, No. 137 Sunnner Street —One of the most important 
adjuncts to the shoe and leather trades of Boston, is the 
scrap leather business. From an insignificant branch of 
Massachusetts' great industry, it has grown witliln a few years to 
immense magnitude, and has now an invested capital of about a 
million dollars. Large quantities of remnants of leather, that used 




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brings to bear fifteen years of experience in the business. As thus 
constituted the firm stands second to none in regard to every qHall- 
fication. On Jan. 1st, there was added an annex containing sixty 
rooms, particularly adapted lor families; large square com- 
modious rooms, with steam heat "and all modern convenience, 
elegantly furnished, and connected by iron bridge with main 
liouse. The Crawford House is the most centrally located of 
any hotel in Boston as regards all the depots, theatres, lines of 
street cars, and points of interest. It is a handsome and substan- 
tial structure, facing on Scollay Square, Hanover and Brattle 
Streets, five stories in height, and embracing all the modern im- 
provements. There are steam heat, electric light, gas, safety pas- 
senger elevator, etc. On the first floor are the office, newstand, 
re.adiug-room and dining-room, the floors are tiled ; the office and 
other apartments are very handsomely furnished and decorated. 
On the second floor are the ladies' and gentlemen's parlors ele- 
gantly furnished. There are 200 rooms, single and double, all com- 
fortably and newly furnished throughout, and carefully looked 
after by a staff of servants. The house is conducted upon the 
European plan, and accommodations can be had at remarkably 
low rates for a Hrst-class hotel, viz: single rooms, from $1. per day 
upwards, and double ones fiom 82. to $1. per day. A staff ol 100 
hands are employed, and Messrs. Goodwin and Rimbach are noted 
ior the exercise of the highest order of ability, and for enforcing a 



to be regarded as nearly worthless, are now gathered up, assorted, 
and made of considerable commercial value. Nothing in the 
leather line nosv goes to waste. Among the numerous merchants 
in Boston who make the scrap leather business a specialty, is Mr. 
Alfred A. Clatur. He was one of the first to give it close attention. 
He started with a small cajiital in 1864, on Pearl Street, which was 
then the centre of the shoe and leather trade. From there lie re- 
moved to No. 100 Higli Street in order to secure more commodious 
quarters. He was burnt out in the great fire of 1872, but immedi- 
ately obtained temporary quarters, and kept his trade going 
without a break, meeting all his obligations promptly, and rapidly 
increasing his sales. He followed the extension of the leather 
trade southward, and removed to his present location. No. 317 
Summer Street, corner of South Street, July 1, 1879, where he occu- 
pies two spacious floors, besides filling one floor in building No. 90 
South Street. He carries a large and varied line of stock, includ- 
ing remnants of sole and upper leather, moulded stiffenings, 
inner soles, heels and|boot counters. Having a thorough knowl- 
edge of the business in all its detail, she knows what stock is re- 
quired to supply the demands of the trade, and being in a position 
to take advantage of the market, and to at all times discount 
ins bill, he is thus enabled to give his customers the benefit of 
me lowest current rates. Mr. clatur has always taken a deej> 
interest in [lolitical affairs. 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



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SCULL & BRADLEY, Fire and Marine Insurance, No. 85 Water 
Street.— Tlirmigliout tlie United .States, Boston is recognized 
as one of tlie principal centres of all business interests, and 
so important is this fact, that all the more prominent corpo- 
rations and companies are represented in this city by responsible 
and energetic agents. In insurance affairs this is equally noticea- . 
ble, and tlie leading companies both of the United States and Great 
Britain find it essentia! to maintain branches or agencies in this 
city. Prominent among our most reliable and widely known in- 
surance agents, is the lirm of Messrs. Scull & Bradley, whose well 
equipped offices arc centrally located at No. 85 Water Street. This 
business was established in 1868byG.E. Foster, who was succeeded 
by Foster & Cole, Foster & Scull and Scull & Bradley. The mem- 
bers of this copartnership, Messrs. Gideon Scull, Fred. Bradley and 
Geo. P. Field, are expert and prudent underwriters, fully con- 
versant witli every detail of fire and marine insurance and the re- 
quirements of property owners and merchants. They represent 
the following lirst-cl.ass companies, viz: The Insurance Company 
of North America, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Fn-e Insurance Co., 
Philadelphia: American Fire Insurance Co., Philadelphia: Royal 
Insurance Company, Liverpool, England. Messrs. Scull & Bradley 
are prepared to take risks to any amount, .and write policies in any 
of the .above named companies at the lowest rates of premium, 
and losses on rislis placed by them have always been promptly 
adjusted and paid, and numbers of our prominent citizens tes- 
tify to the just and straightforward manner in which Messrs. 
Kcull A Bradley conduct all transactiims. Outside manuf.acturers, 
properly and ship owners will study their best interests bv insur- 
ing with til is agency, securing to tliem in every case the lowest rul- 
ing rates and entire security. The partners are popular members 
of the Underwriters' Association, and are liighly esteemed in busi- 
ness circles for their promptness and integrity. Mr. Bradley takes 
charge of the m.arine department, while Messrs. Scull and Field 
devote themselves to the fire branch. 

THE BLACKSTONE NATIONAL BANK OF BO.STON. .Joshua 
Loring, President ; James Adams, Casliier; No. 132 Hanover 
Street.— One of the representative financial institutions of 
Boston, which is contributing largely to tlie prosperity of 
the city and maintaining its reputation .at the highest standard 
throughout every section of the United States, is The Bl.ackstone 
N.atioiial Rank of Boston, whose banking rooms are located at No. 
132 Hanover Street, corner of Union. This successful bank was 
originally incorpor.ated in 1851. and eventually in 1864 became a 
national bank. It has a paid up capital of $l,f«),00n, which has 
been further augmented by a surplus of $190,000. The interests of 
the Blackstone N.ational Bank have always been intimately allied 
with the material progress and prosperity of Boston, and its policy 
lias ever been to promote, .as far as is consistent with its own safety, 
the well-being of the niannf.aeturing industries and commerce of 
tliecity. The following gentlemen are the officers and directors;— 
Joshua L(Ming, president; J.amesAd.ams. cashier. Directors:— Geo. 
■W.Chipnum, Eleazar Boynton, Joshua Loring, Wm. A. Rust, Eustace 
C. Fitz, Ebenezer N. Blake, John S. Piiine, J. Otis Wetherbee, John 
Edmunds and Geo. F. Blake. The bank tr,ansacts a general bank- 
ing, exchange and collection business, and receives u|)on favorable 
terms the .accounts of banks, bankers, merchants, corporations and 
individuals. Its management is thoroughly conservative, its busi- 
ness is riipidly growing, and it is one of the strongest financial or- 
giinizations in New England. The directors are men iutim.ately 
Identified with the best interests of the City of Boston, and whose 
n.ames are synonymous of integrity, prudence .and stability. Mr. 
Joshua Loring h.as been with the bank since its incorporation, as 
cashier till 1871, when he was elected president. He is a judicious, 
able financier, and a vigorous exponent of the soundest principles 
governing banking and finance. Mr. Adams, the cashier, has held 
office since 1875. He is an experienced and capable bank officer, 
with every qualification for his important position. The deposits 
of the Blackstone National Bank now amount to $3,300,000 and its 
future prospects are of the most favorable and encouraging char- 
acter. 



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HE HANCOCK 1NSPIR.\.T0R COMPANY, Manufacturers of 
Inspirators, Ejectors, and general Jet Apparatus, Office, No. 33 
India Wharf, foot of Atlantic Avenue.— This representative 



company was duly incorporated under the laws of Massachu- 
setts in 1878 with a paid up capital of $50,000, and since its or- 
ganization at that date h.as built up an extensive and permanent 
patron.age not only in all sections of the United States andC.an.ada, 
but also in Europe. The works of the company which are fully 
equipped with all the hitest improved tools and machinery, and 
furnish constant employment to 120 skilled workmen, are situated 
on Watson Street. The Hancock Inspir.ator Company make a 
specialty of the mauulivcture of the famous Hancock inspirator, 
the Hancock ejector or lifter and all kinds of general jet appa- 
ratus. The Hancock inspirator is the best aiipliance known for 
feeding all kinds of boilers, on account of its simplicity of opera- 
tion, the great range of its duties, and the fact tli.at all the steam 
used in operating it is returned to the boiler, there being no loss, 
excepting by radiation, from the pipes u.sed in connecting. It lias 
one set of tubes for lifting, and another set of tubes for forcing, 
water— a combination entirely new reliable and efficient. Water 
can be delivered at a high or low temperature, as may be desired. 
E.ach inspirator is carefully tested before leaving the factory, and 
is guaranteed to perform all that is claimed for it. The Hancock 
ejector or lifter is liighly recommended for use in raising water, 
either for filling or emptying tanks, for pumping out wheel pits, or 
for raising and transferring liquids, hot or cold, in tanneries, dye 
houses, etc.; also for filling railroad tanks, and locomotive tenders. 
To be perin.anently attached by the side of the road, in the vicinity 
of water supply, whether well, brook or pond : or to be attached to 
tender or engine as in:vy be most convenient, taking steam from 
the locomotive boiler to operate the ejector in either case. The 
company has already sold 160,000 inspirators and great num- 
bers of ejectors. Numerous testimonials from the leading rail- 
road companies, not only of the United St.ates but also of Europe, 
bear undoubted testimony to their efficacy, reliability and superi- 
ority over all competitors. These splendid inspiiatirs and ejectors 
were invented by Mr John T. Hancock, who died in 1883. The 
company's principiil agents in America are Fairbanks & Co., of 
New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Francisco, 
etc. Messrs. John G. Kollius & Co., of Loudon. England, are the 
agents for supplyuig Great Britain and other European countries. 

STANDARD CORDAGE COMPANY, Manufacturers of Cordage 
and Binders' Twine : Silas Potter, President; Chas. H. Pear- 
son, Treasurer and General Manager; Office: No. 127 State 
Street.— The extent and importance which the manufacture 
of cord.age of all kinds, ;iiid binders' twine has attained in the 
United States, within comparatively recent years, can scarcely be 
over-estimated. The large amount of capital invested, the wide 
sphere covered by its operations and the great number of opera- 
tives to wiiom it aftords employment, all impart to this great 
branch of industry a special interest and imiiortance. Prominent 
among the leading houses actively engaged in this growing trade 
in Boston, is that known as the Standard Cordage Company, whose 
office is situated at No. 127 State Street. This company w as incor- 
porated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1884 and has a paid up 
capital of $150,000, and since its organization has built up a libei-al 
and permanent patromage, which now extends throughout the en- 
tire United States, Canada and South America. The chief execu- 
tive officers of the company are Mr. Silas Potter, president, and 
Mr. Chas. H. Pearson, treiisurer and general manager. The Stand- 
ard Cord.age Company manufactures extensively cordage and 
binders' twine, maiiilla and sisal goods, which are unrivalled for 
quality, finish, strength .and general excellence. The company's 
Lactory which is fully equipped with modern appliances and ma- 
chinery and furnishes constant employment to 150 operatives, is 
situated in Camden Street. The output of the f.actory is about 
twenty tons daily of cordage and twine. Messrs. Potter and 
Pearson, the officers, are highly regarded in trade circles for their 
sound business principles, enterprise and integrity. Mr. Silas 
Potter was previously president of the Boston Cordage Company. 
He Is a director of the Shawmut National Bank and of the Mer- 
chandise National Bank, and Is one of Boston's progressive and 
public spirited citizens. Mr. C. H. Pearson has h.ad twenty-six 
years' experience in the manufacture of cordage and twine, and is 
as widely known for his .ability and sterling integrity as for the 
just and prompt manner in which he attends to the interests of 
patrons in all sections of the country. 



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BAXTER, STONER & SCHENKELBERGER, Manufacturers of 
Cut Soles & Taps, Nos. 70-7) Lincoln Street.— The leather 
trade with its numerous tributary brandies constitues a 
feature of colossal proportions and coninianUiui; importance 
in the commercial activity of this city, and one of the principal 
branches of this industry is that so ably represented by Messrs. 
Baxter, Stoner & SchenUelberger, manufacturers of cut soles and 
taps, at Nos. 70-74 Lincoln street. Owing to the Increase of im- 
proved machinery and the general tendency toward specialties, 
many shoe manufacturers have been compelled to confine them- 
selves to the production ol certain lines of goods; in this way only 
requiring the soles suitable for each grade, and. in place of buying 
their leather in sides, as formerly, they go direct to the sole-cutter 
who supplies them with just the grade of sole they require In their 
special line of goods. The custom shoemakers and repairers aie 
now, almost without exception, buying soles and taps instead of 
side leather. The advantages of buying the bottom stock cut, in- 
stead of buying the leather in the side are manifest. The business 
has been brought to such a degree of perfection that the manufac- 
turer can buy any desired quality and thickness; he knows just 
exactly what his soles cost, which knowledge he is unable to ob- 
tain accurately by cutting his own .stock. He is relieved of the 
necessity of being constantly on the lookout for desirable and 
suitable leather to cut. for reliable men to cut it, for men to over- 
see that it is cut properly, without waste and loss. He avoids ac- 
cumulating grades that he cannot use to good advantage, and 
which must be worked in where best they can be, at a loss, of 
course. When the manufacturer cuts his own leather he cannot 
get the uniformity in his soles that the sole cutter can give him. 
The sole cutter has a market for all his soles, and by being 
able to place all his grades where they will bring what they are 
worth, he is enabled to sell his soles as low and often lower 
than tlie manufacturer can cut them. Baxter, Stoner & Schenkel- 
berger are thoroughly practical and experienced in the cut sole 
business. Their policy has been to make the best, and they 
are winning in this line. They occupy a fine seven-story building, 
fully equipped with new and improved machinery and give steady 
employment to upwards of fifty skilled and experienced workmen. 
The genei-al arrangement is systematic and convenient, and every 
facility is afforded for the advantageous prosecution of the busi- 
ness. They have Just made arrangements with the tanner of the 
celebrated Camden Hemlock sole leather, whereby they are hence- 
forth the only sole cutters in the United States who cut this leather. 
Made from a straight Texas packer hide, thoroughly tanned and 
solid, it is to-day the best leather for taps In the country. Cutting 
as they do, only one tannage of hemlock leather, the firm is able to 
give a, uniformity of stock, quality and assortment that no other 
cutter can give. They follow this principle in Union and Oak 
leather also, cutting in the former the firm and solid West Branch 
backs, and in the latter the celebrated Cover— pure Virginia 0;ik. 
Their specialties are in heavy and steadily increasing demand 
throughout the United States. Always at the head, and offering 
superior inducements in quality, it is no wonder that the produc- 
tions of this house have a standard value in every market into 
which they have been introduced, and they bid fair to retain the 
position they have achieved at the head of the cut sole trade of this 
country. 

MC. WARKEN & CO.. Jobbers and Retailers of Hardware 
and Building Materials, No. 9 Dock Square.— An oldes- 
j tablished and well-known hardware house is that of M. 
C.Warren & Co., located at No. 9 Dock Square. For 
more than a century Dock Square has been a recognized centre of 
the hardsvare trade in Boston, and though.few of the present day 
will recall the names of those engaged in the business in the 
earlier part of this century, there are probably many who will re- 
member those of John Bradford, Charles Brooks & Co., West & 
Parkman, Thomas P. Barne.'s, Otis Vinal and A. J. Wilkinson, who 
were located there some fifty years ago, and several of whom con- 
tinued for many years after, but there are none now remaining 
except the one who is the subject of this sketch. This lirni was 
W.1S established April 14, 1841, by the present senior member, in 
the same building as that now occupied, and was conducted by 
him with but few changes until 1871. when his son, William H. 
Warren, and Messrs. John R. Norton and Engene B.Stoddard were 



admitted to partnership under the firm name of M. C. Warren dc 

Co. Messrs. Norton and Stoddard retired in 188.3, and the business 
has since been conducted by the father and son under the same 
title. It is now, and has always been considered one of the most- 
responsible firms devoted to this line of business in the city, and 
receives a large patronage, not only from residents of Boston and 
the surrounding cities and towns, but from various parts of the 
New England States, many goods being shipped to Maine, New 
Hampshire anil Vermont, and there are at times shipments made 
to some of the more remote states in the Union, both in the south 
and west; and even to some of the far away countries of the 
earth, as orders from Burinah and China will testify. The busi- 
ness premises occupy four 20x60 feet floors, and a complete stock 
of goods are constantly on hand, and a force of salesmen em- 
ployed sutticient to meet the requirements of the trade, it being a 
cardinal principle of this house that its patrons slinnld be well- 
served, and with as little delay as possible. The stock on hand 
comprises a full assortment of the latest styles and best grades ot 
builders' hardware and carpenters' tools, to which the business, 
which is both wholesale and I'etail, is almost exclusively devoted. 
There are,liowever, many other articles in general use,sucli;is table 
and pocket cutlery, scissors, razors, butcliers'tiiols, shovels, spades, 
rakes, etc., together with an almost innumerable variety ot other 
goods, selected with care to meet the wants of the mechanic, the 
farmer or the family. The Messrs. Warren & Co. have always been 
strictly honorable and just in all their dealing.s. 

PINOPALMINE COMPANY. Geo. C. Stewart, Manager; No. 
130 Commercial Street.— One of the greatest improvements 
and valuable aids to health, adding to our comfort and pro- 
moting nature's sweet restorer— balmy sleep, that has been 
brought to the notice of the public during the past few years is 
the pine needle bedding or piuo-palmiiie, whicli is without excep- 
tion, the driest, purest and most healthful bedding material in the 
world and is endorsed and recommended by the medical faculty in 
all parts of the country. Pino-palmine Bedding is made from the 
leaves of the Florida pine tree, called the Fox-tail Pine, from its 
bushy appearance while on the stock. These leaves are about 
fourteen inches in length, of a peculiar odor, strong, but not rank, 
and agreeable to every one. They occupy a high place in materia 
medica. From them come the balsams, turpentines, tars, frankin- 
cense and, in general, the oleo resins in medicines. They act as a 
tonic and diuretic, checking disease of the mucous inembriine, etc. 
Its beneficial influence depends on its stimulant and diaphoretic 
operation, especially in old or debiltated persons. The great merit 
of this filling for mattresses, pillows and comforts is its toughness, 
dryness and el.asticity ot its fibers together with its delightful 
fragrant, pleasant aromatic odor. The medical properties of the 
pine and its balsams are clearly defined in the United States Dis- 
pensatory, the highest standard authority, on Materia Medica as 
valuable remedies in asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, hay fever, nerv- 
ousness, insomnia, neuraliga, rheumatism and other diseases. 
Pino-Palmine was first introduced by Mr. George C. Stewart who 
was an invalid with rheumatism for a long time, and derived such 
benefits from sleeping on this material, that he caused several 
beds to be made for his friends, and in 1879 he mamifaetured about 
thirty mattresses, and such were the remarkable results and 
benefit derived by those who were using them, that in 1886 he de- 
termined to place the Pino-Palmine before the public. The prem- 
ises of the company consist of two floors, each 25x125 feet in ex- 
tent, which are convenient and capacious. Two assistants are 
employed, and a business extending to .all parts of the United 
States is carried on. The following experiment made by Dr. H. L. 
Bowker, May 12tli, 1881, speaks for itself. Gentlemen :— At your 
request I made a series of experiments with various articles ol 
bedding, with a view to test their merits .as to dryness, and the 
amount ot moisture they will retain. 100 grains of best quality 
of curled hair, feathers, excelsior and Pino-Palmine were selected 
and thoroughly dried, and immersed in water for fifteen minutes, 
after which they were pressed so as tp remove all the water 
except what had been absorbed or adhered to the surface, with 
the following result:— 100 grains of excelsior retained 246 per 
cent, of moisture. 100 grains of feathers retained i21 per cent, of 
moisture. 100 grains of hair retained 107 per cent, of moisture. 
100 grains of Pino-Palnilne retained 65 per cent, of moisture. 



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REVERE nOTJSE, Bowdoin Square ; J. F. Merrow & Co., Pro- 
prietiirs.— There is nothing wliicli adds so much to tlie 
prestige of a city, .is first-class liotel accommodations, and 
in this respect Boston stands pre-eminent. One of tlie lead- 
ing and most successful hotels on the European plan in the cit.v is 
V,\.: favorite Revere House, eligibly Ijcated on Bowdoin Square, 
and of which Messrs. J. F. Merrow & Co. are the popular and en- 
ergetic proprietors. This noted liotel was first opened to the pub- 
lic in 1S47 by Paran Stevens, who was the originator of our present 
American first-class liotel system. In 1H84 tlie Revere House was 
ijoroughly renovated, refurnished and remodeiied, when Mr. J. F. 
Jl.'rrow assumed the management. He has introduced all modern 
improvements including, safety passenger elevator, electric lights, 
electric bells, steam heat, hot and cold water on every floor. Then 
tlie Revere while conducted strictly on tlie l':iiin|ican plan, nuw sm 



The night clerk is Mr. E. W. Hall, and the cashier, Mr. W. D. Mer- 
row. AH tiiese gentlemen are experienced and are noted tor tlieir 
obliging and courteous manners. Mr. J. F. Merrow, the proprietor 
was born in New Hampsliire. He is thorouglily conversant with 
the management of first-class hotels, and has made hosts oi friends 
owing to his promptness, business ability and integrity. Tiie 
Revere House lias been rejuvenated under Ids careful manage- 
ment, and is now always full, at all seasons of the year. 



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G. DOLE, Mutton, Lamb, Veal, Etc., Stall No. 19 New 

Faneuil Hall Market.— Among those dealers who have 

I attained prominence and popularity in the meat and pr(> 

vision trade of Boston is Mr. C. G. Dole, wlio occu- 

Stall No. Ill, in the New Faneuil Hall Market. This 

I'lnaii has been established in tlie business here since 




generally prefeaifd \>\ Un- Iruvclliug public, lias the finest restau- 
ant considering price and quality to be found in Boston. Its cuis- 
ine is renowned and no pains or expense are ever spared to make 
it a leading feature of comforts and excellence. The hotel is 
finely built and is attractive in appearance both inwardly and out- 
wardly. It contains 200 rooms available for guests, graduated in 
price according to location and size from $1.00 per day and up- 
wards. There are al.so a number of suites, varying from $.'>.00 per 
day, etc. All the rooms are commodious, handsomely furnished 
and elegant in all their appointments, fixtures and upholstery, 
while the halls and corridors are spacious and beautifully tiled. 
The ladies' and gentlemen's parlors and reception rooms are 
richly furnished, and the offices are fitted up in a convenient and 
attractive style. The sanitary arrangements are perfect in every 
detail .and the means of escape in case of fire, ample. In the 
office is one of the new improved Howard electric clocks, which 
compels the night-watchman to make rounds at stated intervals, 
and pass every point in the house. In the yard enclosed by the 
house is a handsome fountain constantly playing. The bar is su])- 
plied with the finest wines, liquors and cigars, which are obtained 
direct from the most reliable houses. We would observe that the 
parlors of the Revere are far more spacious than those of any 
other American hotel, while the accommodation for dinner parties 
is absolutely unsurpassed. Tlie day clerks are Messrs. O. H. 
Thornton and C. M. (ireen for many years connected with the Tre- 
mont House and two of the best hotel clerks in the United States. 



October. ISij.j, and li.is ouill up a large and influential trade 
as a wholesale .<nd retail dealer in mutton, lamb, veal, 
etc. He commands all the .advantages naturally accumulated by 
long years of identification with a special line of trade, and pos- 
sesses the best possible facilities for conducting all operations 
under the most favorable auspices. He exercises the greatestcare 
in the selection of his stock and in preparing it for the market 
which justifies him in claiming to offer the trade and consumers 
a line of meat products that cannot be excelled ror quality, relia- 
bility and excellence. He is prep.ared to supply hotels, restaur- 
ants, families and large buyers with meats in quantities to suit 
with the utmost promptness and at prices which are safe from suc- 
cessful competition. Having always been earnest and unremit- 
ting in his endeavors to meet every demand of his customers in a 
prompt and satisfactory manner, he has developed a patronage of 
great .and gratifying proportions, which is in itself the best possi- 
ble iiroof of the superiority of the goods he offers, and of the hon- 
orable and straightforward metliods that have ever characterized 
his dealings. Hi» trade extends to all parts of the city and to the 
surrounding towns, and is annually increasing in volume and 
v.alne under enterprising, reliable and painstaking management, 
Mr. Dole is a native of Acton. Mass, and well and favorably known 
in the social and business circles of this city for his strict probity 
and integrity, his liberal and obliging methods of dealing, and his 
business tact and ability, all of which his customers derive the 
benefit of in their dealings with hiin. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON, 



FOBES, HAYWARD «Si CO., (Incoipoiated) Manufacturing Con- 
fectioners, A. F. Hay ward, President ; Nos. 42 to 52 Cliardon 
Street.— Americans, especially the rising generation, are 
probably tlie largest consumers of candy and confectionery 
in the world, and the productions of our manufacturers of these 
delicious luxuries can now compete favorably with those of France, 
which country for a very long period has been considered the 
most successful in tliis particular line. One of the most promi- 
nent and representative houses, extensively engaged in the manu- 
facture of confectionery of all kinds in New England, is that of 
l'"obes, Hayward & Clo. (incorporated), whose office, factory and 
salesrooms are located in Boston at Nos. 42 to .52 Chardon Street. 
This business was established in 1848. In 1860 Messrs. Fobes. 
Hayward & Co., succeeded to the management. Eventually in 
1886 it was duly incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, 
with a paid up capital of $150,000. Tlie following gentlemen being 
the officers viz.: A. F. Hayward, president; E. F. Fobes, vice 
president; F. H. Woodward, secretary. The premises occupied 
comprise a spacious sixstory and basement building 120x120 feet 
in dimensions. The manufacturing departments are fitted up 
witli the latest improved machinery, apparatus and appliances 
necessary for the systematic conduct of this extensive industiy. 
Here 200 operatives are employed, and the machinery is driven by 
a superior 80 horse power steam engine. Purity is the main essen- 
tial with these goods, and to-day the difficulty to obtain candies 
and confectionery devoid of adulteration and deleterious sub- 
stances is so great, tliat the advantage of dealing with a house like 
that of Fobes, Hayward & Co., whose reputation is so high for mak- 
ing none but the purest and best goods, is at once manifest. All 
their productions are warranted to be exactly as represented, and 
the creditable position that their goods have in tlie market, is due 
to the determination of the officers to always maintain their stand- 
ard. The company manufactures in large quantities plain and 
decorated creams, marshmallows, plain and fine chocolate creams, 
mixed candy of all kinds, vanilla chocolate, cream almonds, mac- 
earoons, etc., which are unexcelled in this country or Europe for 
quality, purity and uniform excellence. All orders are promptly 
and carefully flllcil ut tlie lowest possible prices, and the trade of the 
iiouse whicli is steadily increasing, now extends throughout all 
sections of the United States and Canada. The officers are 
thoroughly able and lionorable business men. Retailers and job- 
bers will find it greatly to their interests to make a factor of tliis 
responsible house, and will obtain such advantages here, as will 
fully sustain all that has been stated in this editorial article. 

GOLDSMITH, SILVER & CO., formerly the Mass. Co-opera- 
tive Association, Manufactureis of Cigars, No. 108 State 
Street.— Among the various industries represented in the 
City of Boston, few deserve more attention than that of 
tlie manufacture and handling of cigars. This business involves 
the investment of a large amount of capital and gives employ- 
ment to hundreds of operatives. A thoroughly enterprising and 
l)rogressive house engaged in this industry is that of Messrs. tjold- 
sinith. Silver & Co., whose office and factory are located at No. 108 
State Street. The gentlemen comprising the firm are Mr. I. N. 
Goldsmith, Mr. S. C. Silver, Mr. Henry Mack and Mr. H. Van Ulm, 
all of whom were formerly connected either as officers or members 
of the cigar manufacturing house known under the title of the 
Massachusetts Co-operative Association; who entered into this 
present copartnership on January 1st, 1889, under the existing 
Arm name, and, although of such recent organization they have 
acquired already a very large and increasing patronage, such as is 
not often accorded to much older houses in this line of business. 
The business premises comprise three floors, each 25x60 feet in di- 
mensions, which are fully equipped with all conveniences and em- 
ployment is given to from thirty-five to forty skilled operatives. 
Competition in the cigar trade is very keen, but tills firm owirg to 
the evident superiority and standard quality of their productions 
have had no difficulty thus far in convincing their trade, wliich ex- 
tends throughout New England, that their goods are honestly 
made from the purest materials. It is the aim of this concern to 
make a thoroughly good cigar, well worthy the attention of con- 
nisseurs and experts and to maintain their brands at a high and 
uniform standard of excellence. That they are successful in this 
laudable endeavor is evidenced by the extensive demand created 



for their cigars wherever they are introduced, which is the best 
possible assurance of tlie continued success and permanent pros- 
perity of this house. They make a leading specialty of their famous 
brands M. C. A., a ten-cent, and 108 a five-cent cigar, which have 
quickly become among tlie most popular cigars in tills market, 
and are handled by the best dealers and retailers throughout 
New England and eagerly sought for by experts and good Judges 
of fine tobacco. Dealers and large buyers requiring a high grade 
of cigars at moderate prices should give their orders to this relia- 
ble house, which is prepared to offer inducements and advantages 
not easily obtained elsewhere. The members of the firm have had 
a wide range of experience in this line of trade, and devote their 
entire attention to their business. They are well and favorably 
known in tlie commercial and trade circles of this city and vicin- 
ity and are thoroughly identified with every interest effecting the 
city's welfare and prosperity. 

JOHN KENT, New England Agent of The A. French Spring Co., 
Limited, and Carnegie, Phipps & Co., Limited, Nos. 52 Mason 
Building, No. 70 Kilby Street.— Prominent among the import- 
ant manufacturing enterprises of the country represented 
in this city are those under tlie management of Mr. John Kent, 
whose office is located at Room 52, Mason Building, No. 70 Kilby 
Street. This gentleman is the New England agent of Carnegie, 
Phipps & Co., manufacturers of steel plates, merchant iron and 
forgings, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; the A. French Spring Co., limited, 
manufacturers of springs of all kinds, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and 
has been established in the business here since 1882, and enjoys 
a large wholesale trade throughout New England. His connec- 
tion with the above powerful corporations and prominent manu- 
facturers enables him to conduct all branches of the business 
upon the largest scale. He ships direct from the manufactories 
to his customers in all cases, iuid is in a position to guarantee 
the prompt and perfect fulfillment of all orders, of whatever 
magnitude ; and also to offer inducements to the trade as regards 
both superiority of goods and liberality of terms and prices, wliich 
challenge comparison and defy successful competition. Control- 
ling the entire trade of these mammoth manufactories in New 
England. Mr. Kent is prepared to battle on even terms with Ills 
most formidable contemporaries from any part of the country, and 
is transacting an immense and constantly increasing business. 
The great resourcesat his command endow liiin not only with ad- 
vantages for the successful prosecution of the trade, but also insure 
to the benefit of all his patrons, rendering business relations once 
entered into with this agency not only pleasant for the time being, 
but of a character to become lasting and permanent. Mr. Kent lias 
been identified witli the iron business for many years, has a foun- 
dation understanding of all Hie details and requirements of the 
trade, and is eminently popular and successful in meeting all its 
demands. 

THE HOWARD NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, R. E. Dem- 
mon. President; S. F. Wilkins, Cashier; No. 19 Congress 
Street.— The Howard National Bank of Boston is the suc- 
cessor of the Howard Banking Co., which was incorporated 
In 1853 with a capital of $500,000. In 1858 the name was changed 
to the Howard Bank, and under that style the institution contin- 
ued until January, 1865, when having re-organized under the 
national banking law it assumed the present title. In March, 1865, 
the capital was increased to $750,000, and in October, 1869, it was 
further increased to $1,000,000. The bank has been located since 
January 1, 1879, at No. 19 Congress Street, occupying tlie first floor 
of the Howard Bank Building. Its total dividends as a National 
Bank have been $1,.590,000 and its present surplus fund is $177,000 
besides other profits of $47,000. The Howard has among its deposi- 
tors many of the best firms and corporations in the city and has 
also a large number of bank and mercantile correspondents. The 
president is R. E. Deinnion and tlie cashier is Samuel F. Wilkins. 
The directors are A. B. Butterfield, John W. Candler, Samuel B. 
Capen, R. E. Demnion, Francis Flint, J. M. W. Hall, A. P. Matin, 
N.W Rice, and Samuel F. Wilkins. Among the principal Ameri- 
can correspondents of the bank can be named the Importers' and 
Traders' National Bank, of New York; Mercantile National Bank, 
of New York ; National Bank of Commerce, New York, and the 
Corn Exehiinge Bank, of Chicago. 



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107 



WHITTEN, BURDETT & YOUNG, iManufactureis and Job- 
bers of Men's and Boys' Clothing, Nos. 3 Wintlioip 
Square and 36 Otis Street.— Boston's supremacy in tlie 
wholesale clothing trade is assured by the possession 
of such an eminent and enterprising house as that of Messrs. 
Whitten, Burdett & Young, whose sound judgment, marked execu- 
tive capacity and perfected facilities have secured for the line 
clothing of Iheir manufacture the national reputation of being 
fully the equal of custom made in every respect. The immense 
industry centred in the magniflcent modern structure, corner 
Winlhorp Square and Otis Street, was established upwards of fifty 
years ago by Messrs John Gove & Co. ; in 1858 Mr. Chas V. Whitten 
entered the house, organizing the firm of Whitten, Hopkins & Co., 
and who thus continued up to 1862, when he and Mr. Horatio S. 
Burdett formed a copartnership under the name and style of 
Whitten, Burdett & Co In Ih62 Mi Amos S. Young came into the 
firm under the now longtiinilni tide of M ssrs. Whitten, Burdett 
Ai Young. As till bnsin in 1 i I I paitiTii'iils increased in 



and made up in the most thorough manner by experienced work- 
men, of whom the firm employ no less than 2,700, thus bringing 
their industrial army up to the round nnniber of 3.000— the equal 
of three big regiments— all busy in producing the clothing that is 
first sought for by shrewd and careful b\iyers in Boston and all 
over New England and the west. The business lias attained pro- 
portions of enormous magnitude growing up on the sound basis of 
the best clothing of every grade, at the lowest prices commensur- 
ate with honest workmanship. The firm's policy is synonymous 
with integrity, and the popular demand for its clothing became so 
urgent that to meet it the concern opened large retail stores in 
such great cities as Worcester, Mass. ; Providence, R. I. ; Hart- 
ford, New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., and in Minneapolis, 
Minn. Each one has been a pronounced success and as a further 
instance of their enterprise, we may state wliat is already so 
familiar to tlie Boston public, the opening in December, 1888, of 
their magnificent and mammouth clothing store in the prominent 
new building, conuT of Wasliington and Kneeland Streets. It is 




FACTORY AND 

WHOLESALE STORE, 

NO. 3 WINTHROP SQUARE. 

m.agnitude two other partners were admitted, viz: Mr. Jules M. 
Burns in 1881, and Mr. James Rankin in 1886. As thus constituted 
this house has no equal for every qualification insuring eftlciency 
and success and their concern is the recognized, largest and the 
model establishment of the kind in Boston, and one from which 
the leaders of the New York clothing trade can secure valued sug- 
gestions. From the start Messrs. Whitten, Burdett and tlieir col- 
leagues were animated with the laudable ambition to excel— to lift 
the wholesale manufacture of fine clothing from the rut into 
which it had fallen, and their efforts were from the start crowned 
with a legitimate and lasting success, their enlightened policy prac- 
tically revolutionizing the trade and securing for their goods the 
eager demand of the most celebrated retail clothiers and jobbers 
of Boston and the country at large. The firm make the finest cloth- 
ing put on the market— in every respect the equal of custom work. 
The firm occupy five immense floors, splendidly lighted, and most 
handsomely and conveniently fitted up, all the modern iinjirove- 
ments being at command. The premises are 80x140 feet in dimen- 
sions, which figures give a faint idea of the immense area of floor 
space here utilized. A thorough system of organization is 
enforced and 300 salesmen, cutters, clerks, examiners, porters, etc. 
are here busily engaged in the work of preparing the cloths and 
woolens for the cutters, (who include the best talent) and the 
reception of the made up clothing and suitable disposition, pack- 
ing, shipping, etc. Messrs. Whitten, Burdett & Young exercise 
sound judgment and the greatest enterprise in the selection of 
their woolens and suitings, bringing ample resources to bear and 
being the first to secure all the newest shades, p,atterns and tex- 
tures in American and foreign fabrics; their styles are ever the 
leaders, correct, fashionable and elegant. Their cutters, as before 
remarked, are all trained experts from fine custom shops; all 
goods are critically examined and the slightest imperfection or 
blemish condemns the piece of material. All goods are duly sponged 




RETAIL STORE, 

COMMONWEALTH CLOTHING HOUSE, 

COR. WASHINGTON AND KNEELAND STREETS. 

admittedly the finest clothing store in Massachusetts, and is 80x 
165 feet in size and is fitted up as only the accurate taste, ripe 
experience and ample resoinces of this eminent house could dic- 
tate. There are displayed in profusion, every possible form and 
style of garment worn by man or boy in season, all of the firm's 
perfection of manufacture, and quoted at prices, which quality 
considered, cannot possibly be duplicated elsewhere. The sales 
have far more than met the most sagiiine anticipations of the firm 
and their store has at once taken rank as the leading representative 
in Boston. Mr. Charles V. Whitten was born in Maine. Early in 
life he came to Boston and has ever been prominently identified 
with the wholesale clothing trade. The remarkable progress man- 
ifest is very largely due to his skill .and enterprise. He saw the 
need of progress and so did Messrs. Burdett and Young, and these 
three gentlemen are veritable public benefactors in their line. 
Mr. Burdett was born in Massachusetts, and Mr. Young in New 
Hampshire, thus they represent the three principal New England 
States. Mr. Whitten is a public spirited citizen and has been and 
is active in public life, h.as as chairman of the Boston Board of 
Aldermen, most ably and creditably presided over the delibera- 
tions of that body and doing much to secure to the city an efllcient 
and economical administration. He is a director of the Mechanics' 
National Bank, while Mr. Bnrdett is a director of the Lincoln and 
Exchange National Banks, both gentlemen being vigorous expon- 
ents of the soundest principles governing banking and finance. 
Mr. Burns is a native of New Hampshire, and Mr. Rankin of Maine ; 
both are v.alued factors in guiding the immense business of this 
famous old house, wliose wise guidance is so noteworthy, whose 
f.acilities are unequalled, connections the most influential and 
which has brought such a lasting source of credit and value to 
Boston and an enduring monument to the industry and enterprise 
of the copartners. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



KANSAS INVESTMENT COMPANY, Topeka. Kansas, East- 
ern Office: No. 101 Devonhsire Street, George C. Morrell, 
Vice President and Manager.— The rapid growth ot the 
fertile west in population, wealth and material improve- 
ments of every kind, would have been greatly retarded without 
the tree borrowing of eastern capital by the sturdy farmers and 
stock raisers, who have turned the bleak prairies into waving 
wheat fields and productive cattle ranges. In this connection 
special reference is made in tliis commercial review of Boston, to 
the reliable and successful Kansas Investment Company ot To- 
peka. The company's home ollice Is at No. 535 Kansas Avenue, 
Topeka, Kansas. This company was duly incorporated under the 
laws of Kansas, in 1883, with a paid up capital of $500,000, and 
since its organization at that date has built up an extensive and 
liber<al patronage. The comp.any's business is cunlined exclusively 
to the negotiation of first mortgages and debenture bonds to sav- 
ings banks, insurance and trust companies, trust estates and indi- 
vidual capitalists. The company employs ten expert examiners 
six of whom are stockholders and two directors in tlie company. 
Tliese examiners are paid a salary, and have no interest except to 
protect the company. Every property on which a loan is made is 
carefully inspected by one of these examiners before the loan is 
granted. The western managers and examiners liave had a suc- 
cessful experience of from ten to fifteen years in this line of work, 
and not a dollar has been lost of the millions that have passed 
through their hands. The fact that the company has a Boston of- 
fice should not mislead any one. The company is a|Kansas insti- 
tution ; its western managers and officers are Kansas men, on the 
ground, to give personal attention to the important work of mak- 
ing loans— the work that is the key to the safety of the whole busi- 
ness. The directors of the company, east and west, are among 
the heaviest stockholders, and have a deep interest in tlie success 
and prosperity of tlie company. The company urges all interested 
parties to examine minutely into its methods, its personnel and its 
general status. Tt begs careful inquiry of competent judges, and 
has no doubt or fear as to what the answer will be. The following 
gentlemen, who are highly regarded in financial and busine.ss cir- 
cles for their executive ability, prudence and just methods are the 
officers. H. E. Ball, president ; Geo. C. Morrell, vice jiresident -, B. 
R. Wheeler, secretary; P. T. Bartlett, assistant secretary; S. L. 
Leavitt, manager city dept. ; G. J. Wilmot, general examiner ; 
Jones & Mason, counsel ; Byron Roberts, Rankin Mason, auditors ; 
O. S. Bowman, cashier; J. P. Goggiu. assistant cashier; Boston 
Safe Deposit and Trust Company, trustee. Directors: Wm. Lloyd 
Garrison, Boston, Mass.; Hon. Joshua G. Hall, Dover, N. H., ex- 
meinber of Congress, director Dover National Bank; Lewis W. 
Anthony, Providence, K, I. ; Greene, Anthony & Co., wholesale 
dealers in boots and shoes, director Traders' National Bank ; Isaac 
J. Carr, Gardiner, Me., president Gardiner National Bank ; Edwin 
A. Smith, Providence, R. I., cashier City National Bank; W. H. 
Winants, Kansas City, Mo., cashier Armour Bros., Banking Com- 
pany ; Hon. N. C. McFarland, Topeka, Kansas, ex-commissioner 
General Land Office; William Sims, Topeka, Kansas, president 
State Board of Agriculture, vice president First National Bank ; 
Dr. Keid Alexander, general surgeon, Chicago, Kansas and Ne- 
braska Railway; Herbert E. Ball, president, Topeka, Kansas; 
George C. Morrell, vice president, Boston, M.ass. ; Bennett R. 
Wheeler, secretary, Topeka, Kansas; Sylv.anus L. Leavitt, man- 
ager city department, Topeka, Kansas, director Kansas National 
Bank ; G. J. Wilmot, general examiner, Kansas City, Mo., manager 
Kansas City Office; Byron Roberts, auditor, Topeka. Kansas, 
treasurer Shawnee County, Kansas; Rankin Mason, auditor, To- 
peka, Kansas, Jones & Mason, attorneys at law; B. M. Davies, To- 
peka, Kansas, vice president Bank of Topeka; Hon. Albert H. 
Horton, Topeka. Kansas, Chief Justice Supreme Court; Hon 
Samuel T. Howe, Topeka, Kansas, president Kansas National 
Bank, ex-treasurer State of Kansas. The following statement .at 
the close of business October 31st, 1888, shows the company's affairs 
to be in a most substantial afld nourishing condition: Resources; 
Loans secured by mortgage on real estate. $1,591,995.91 ; remittances 
for interest within sixty days, $2,481.69; other past-due interest re- 
mitted for but not paid us, $1,706.95 ; cash on hand and in bank, $221,- 
813.69; special trust fund mortgage loans, $7,361.30; total, $1,825,359.- 
M. Liabilities: Capital stock paid in. $500,000.00; surplus fund, 
SliHi.OOO.OO; undivided earnings. $27,723.03; debenture bonds out- 



standing, $1,009,800.00; trust savings deposits, $6,040.00; trust fund 
interest .account, $1,472.26; certihcates of deposit bearing inleiest, 
$43,451.20 ; other deposits and funds awaiting investment, »136,b72.55 ; 
total, 51,825,359.54. The company employ no commission men, 
make no loans on personal property, or second moiigages— busi- 
ness confined to the exclusive loaning of money on first mort- 
gages of real estate. Deposits may be made to the credit of the 
Kansas Investment Company, witli any of the following banks: 
National Bank of Redemption, Boston. Mass.: Bank of Topeka, 
Topeka, K.ansas; Ninth NatioualBank,New York City; Amoskeag 
National Bank, Manchester, N. H.; Kansas National Bank, 
Topeka. Kansas; The British Linen Company Bank, Edinburgh, 
Scotland, and London, England; Boston Safe Deposit & Trust 
Company, Boston, M.ass. ; Central National Bank, Topeka, Kans.as; 
Armour Bros., Banking Company, Kansas City, Mo.; Gardiner 
National Bank, Gardiner, Me. We would observe that the com- 
pany's debenture bonds are rapidly becoming a popular form 
of investment with cautious and careful investors and capital- 
ists. First: Because these bonds are negotiable by delivery, 
just as a government or railroad bond is, and can be sold by the 
holder without assignments or transfers in writing.which have tobe 
made w hen mortgages are sold and transferred. Second : For pur- 
poses of collateral, the bonds are preferable to the mortgages. 
Third: They can be held by parties without publicity, and if any 
holder desires, he can cut the coupons off and send them directly 
to the company and receive a New York draft therefor. Fourth: 
The amouut of security behind each series of $100,000 is $5,000 more 
than the par value and interest of the bonds, besides the further 
security found in the entire assets of the Kansas Investment Com- 
pany, which in law may be exhausted to meet these bonds in case 
ot any default by the company. These bonds are sold at par and 
accrued interest, and the comp.any recommends them as the most 
desirable and remunerative investment that ic.an be made in any 
form of western securities, and as absolutely safe as Government 
bonds. In conclusion it m.ay be justly stated, that this responsible 
company aims solely for the absolute safety of the lender, and 
m.ikes no loans to applicants who are not known to be sober, in- 
dustrious and honest men with capacity to accomplish what they 
undertake and meet their obligations promptly. 

CS. OBER & CO., Manufacturers of Wiesbaden and Devonshire 
Table Sauces; New England Depot for "Scourene," Etc., 
, Nos. 134 and 136 Commercial Street.— The increased atten- 
tion given of Late years in this country to the prepara- 
tion of a superior quality of table delicacies, condiments, fla- 
voring extracts and kindred specialties has resulted, as it is 
scarcely necessary to remark, in very notable improvement hav- 
ing been made in these palatable articles. Indeed, some of those 
engaged in this line here in Boston have achieved a signal suc- 
cess, and on absolute merit, too. Among those referred to, 
special mention should be made of C. S. Ober & Co., manufact- 
urers of Wiesbaden and Devonshire table sauces, Ober's flavoring 
extracts and grocers" sundries, whose commodious establishment 
is located at Nos. 134-136 Commercial Street, and whose productions 
have secured an enduring hold on popular favor throughout the 
country owing to the uniformly high standard of excellence at 
which the s.ame are maintained. These goods are articles ot ex- 
ceptional merit, being noted for their choice flavor, purity and 
quality, and as a consequence they are in steady, extensive and 
growing demand in the triide. This now flourishing enterprise 
was started in 1878 in a rather modest way, and no better criter- 
ion of the superiority of the productions need be offered than the 
unequivocal success that has attended the efforts of the firm since 
the inception of the venture. The business premises, including 
salesroom and factory, occupy three 25x75 feet floors, and are well 
ordered and equipped in every respect, the establishment being 
under the capable and efficient management of W. F. Eraser. A 
heavy and AI stock is constantly kept on hand, the concern being 
New EngUand depot for "Scourene" and goods manufactured by 
George A. Moss, of New York, while a large st.aff of hands is 
employed on the premises, besides half a dozen traveling .sales- 
men on the road, and the trade of the firm, which is principally 
located in the Eastern States, is of a highly gratifying character. 
Their trade is ot that conservative class that they continually 
retain. 



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UNION DEBENTURE COMPANY, John C. Taylor, President ; 
Julius L. Clarice, Secretary.— The Union Debenture Com- 
pany: The almost magical growth of the Slate of Minne- 
sota during the last twenty-five years has made great de- 
mands on eastern capital. There are at the present day very few 
sections of the country which offer more profitable, and, at the 
same time, more absolutely sate methods tor the. investment of 
funds than in carefully selected first-class farm mortgages mi this 
thriving state, as also in some of its neighboring jurisdictions. In 
connection with these remarks, special attention is directed intliis 
commercial review of the City of Boston, to the representative iind 
reliable Union Debenture Company, whose oftice is located at Nos. 
55 Congress and 40 Water Streets. The company has likewise offices 
in Cliicagoand Minneapolis. The Union Debenture Company was 
incorporated under the laws of Minnesota, in 1887, with authority 
to commence business on a paid up capit.al of $100,000, which has 
since been more than doubled. so that its present surplus .as legards 
patrons is upwards of $200,000. Tlie gentlemen .associated with its 
management are highly regarded in financial and commercial cir- 
cles for their executive ability, prudence and just methods. 
Amcmg its present officials are:— John C. Taylor, president; I. R. 
Beeiy, vice-president and general manager; Julius L. Clarke, sec- 
retary; A.S. Burt, assistant secretary, Hon. George C. Wing, John 
C. Taylor, William Oswald, A. S. Burt, Hon. Julius L. Clarke, and 
I. R. Beery, directors. The debenture bonds issued by this com- 
pany areiu denominations of $100, $500, and $1,000 at 6 per cent, in- 
terest, each series being specially and fully secured by real estate 
mortgages deposited with the American Loan .and Trust Company 
of Boston. Tlie comp,any also issues $600 ten year investment 
bonds, which are sold on the installment plan and delivered on the 
first payment, the purchaser paying $30 a year. or $300 in ten years, 
and receiving in return $600, or a compound interest accumulation 
of over 9 per cent, on the investment. These bonds are non-for- 
teitable after two annual payments, their values with compound 
interest accumulations after e.acli payment being definitely stated 
thereon. Being transferable, they have at all times a present mar- 
ket value, incre,asing with every year appro.icliing maturity. For 
tlie protection of these bonds a sinking fund is specially provided, 
wliich, with the large interest accumulations realized on its mort- 
gage investments, fully enables the company to guarantee the 
generous return assured to its patrons. The company confines 
its operations in farm mortgages chiefly in Minnesota, Nebraska 
and Dakota. Its .stock and bond holders represent persons in every 
calling and condition of life: while its loaning agents are mostly 
bankers and stockholders in the company, and therefore person- 
ally interested in each and every loan. The following financial 
statement issued November 1. 1888, sliows the affairs of tlie com- 
pany to be in a satisfactory condition: Resources— Bonds and real 
estate securities, $205,939.45; bills and .accounts receiv,able, $77,- 
220.82; accrued interest, $9,521.50: office furniture, expense and 
supplies, $3,.5fl0.00; cash and cash items on hand and in bank., and 
with .St. Paul Trust Company for investment. $fj,405-i'6; total $302,- 
586.83. I.i.abilities— Capital stock paid up, $206,800.00; investment 
bond sinking fund, debenture bonds and all other liabilities, $80,- 
099 49; total, $286,899.49. Surplus— $15,687.34. Surplus as regards 
patrons, $222,487.34, being over $277 for each $100 of liability. Tills 
exhibit, which h.as been officially attested by proper authority, and 
the company's compliance with the laws of st.ates requiring statu- 
tory supervision, coupled with the benefits so easily available to 
its patrons, may well claim tlie attention of all classes of invest- 



EB. STILLTNGS & CO., Stationersand Printers, No. 5.5 Sud. 
bury .Street.— No Boston house has achieved a more en- 
j viable reputation th.an that of Messrs. E. B. Stilliiigs 
& Co., the widely celebrated stationers and printers, 
whose office is conceded to be the best in the country for a high 
artistic class of printing, engraving and blank book work. Mr. 
Stilliiigs established this business in 1867 and early became noted 
lor the elegance, accuracy and durability of all jobs executed by 
him. The growth of trade taxed his facilities to the utmost and 
repeated enlargements and introduction of new and improved 
presses and macliinery attest to not only his popularity but the 
determination to maintain the lead for the execution of the finest 
work. At No. 55 .Sudbury Street Mr. Stillings has the model office 



of its kind. He has here twelve Job presses and four Hoe presses 
run by steam, including tlie recent addition of one of Hoe's latest 
stop cylinder presses, costing over $4,000, .adapted to the last print- 
ing of the finest work and insuring beautiful typographical execu- 
tion. With his equipment and having a stall of lifiy tif the most 
skillful aud experienced workmen he otters substantial induce- 
ments to customers in every department of the stationery and 
printing tr,ade. A specialty is made of the engraving and printing 
of bonds and stock certificates, engraved either on wood, stone or 
steel. They do only strictly firstcUass work, and among their 
patrons may be menlioned such concerns as "The Thomson 




55 Sudbury st. 



Houston Electric Company;" Noyes Brothers; Tliayer, McNeil & 
Hodgkins, New York and New England Railroad, leading Ma.sonic 
Lodges, Grand Army Posts, Societies, Woman's Relief Corps, etc., 
etc. An important department is that devoted to ilie manufacture 
of account books, ledgers, journals, day books, etc., produced to 
order of the very best materi.als, promptly and always at the most 
reasonable prices. Mr. Stilliiigs is a man of inventive ability, who 
has effected several important improvements in liis line, and has 
devised a system of books for keeping records and accounts, so 
conipreliensive, handy and concise as to receive general public 
endorsation and which lias been adopted by the (iraiid Army of 
the Republic, and Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Stillings executes 
.all kinds of book, commercial and Job printing, and in fancy 
cliromatic and high class circular and other letter, press ai d orna- 
mental printing, h.as become one of the leading representatives in 
New England and second to none in the United States. His energy, 
enterprise aud skill .are proverbi.al; his printing house is thor 
oughly typical of the best methods and most skillful work, and Mr. 
Stillings is worthy of the enviable reputation acliieved and of the 
heavy growing trade developed in his branch of industry. 

LYMAN L. KIMBALL & CO., Wholesale Fruit and Produce, 
Nos. 29 and 31 Richmond Street.— Among the repi-esentative 
houses engaged in the handling of produce and fruits at 
wholesale in this city is that of Messrs. Lyman L. Kimball 
& Co., the well known shipping and commission mercliants. The 
proprietor of tliis concern, Mr. L. L. Kinib.all was born at 
Barry, Mass., forty-eight years ago, and has resided in Boston 
since he was seven years of age. He liiis been identified with 
the fruit and produce tr.ade for the past thirty years, and 
for five years was connected with liis father's establishment, 
Charles Kimball & Co. In 1868, Mr. Kimball started business 
on his own .account, and reino\ed to Ills present premises in 
1878.. The premises are very ciminiodious and in every way 
admirably adapted for the purposes to which they are de- 
voted. They are equipped with every appli.ance and convenience 
that can be suggested for facilitating tlie transaction of business 
—the receiving and storage of supplies jind the shipping of orders 
to all points. Every description of domestic and foreign fruit and 
produce is handled, a leading specialty being made of potatoes. 
Indeed this house is the most extensively engaged in the handling 
of potatoes of any in the city. Consignments are received, quick 
sales are effected, and prompt and satisfactory returns are made. 







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MAUKET NATIONAL BANK. Charles J. Wliitinore, Esq. 
President; Richard H.Weld, Esq., Vice President; Josiah 
Q Bennett, Esq., Cashier, No. 86 State Street.— The import- 
ance ot Boston as a great financial centre is forcibly 
tlcnionst rated by the record and solid prosiierity of her leading 
banks. Commercial stability is largely dependent on the extended 
facilities accorded by these fiscal institntioiis and tliey are inti- 
mately linked with the growth of every interest in Boston and 
New England. One of the oldest, and thoroughly representative 
in every respect is the Market National Bank, wliich was duly 
organized in 1&'!2 as a state bank, and in 1864 was reorganized 
under the National Banking Act. Tlie Market Bank has ever 
been a favorite with tlie business world, its unusually extended 
lines ot deposits are largely those ot active merchants, while it 
discounts much of the most desirable commercial paper on the 
market. The bank has a capital of $800,000 held by leading citi- 
zens, as one ot the choicest and remunerative of investments. Its 
board of directors is as follows : Messrs. Benjamin P. Cheney, 
Charles VV. Hubbard, George Hyde, Herbert Nash, Francis H. Ray- 
mond, Kichard H. Weld, and Charles ,1. Whitmore. The above 
gentlemen are prominent and influential in commercial circles ; 
their names are synonymous with stability and integrity, and 
there is no fiscal institution in the city which enjoys greater cou- 
Sdence, or whose management is more signally prudent or saga- 
cious. Its president, Mr. Cliarles J. Whitmore is recognized as 
as one of Boston's ablest financiers; an energetic and far-sighted 
liead ot the Executive, and whose services ot the bank are justly 
appreciated. He was born in Boston and has ever accorded a 
hearty support to all measures best calculated to advance the 
city's prosperity. He is also treasurer ot the Ames Plow Com- 
pany, and is connected with other important enterprises. Mr. 
Richard H. Weld, the vice president, is a native of Boston, and is 
prominently identified with her great shipping and import trade 
being member of the firm oS Aaron D. Wells Sons, the leading iml 
porters of liemp and sugar. Mr. Weld is an authority in financial 
circles, and has devoted himself indefatigably to the dischai'ge ot 
the onerous duties devolving upon him. The cashier, Mr. Josiah 
Q. Bennett is a native of Somerville. Mass., and is a bank officer 
of the greatest practical experience, and thoroughly qualified for 
the duties of his responsible post. His acquaintance is most wide- 
spread throughout American financial circles, he is a vigilant offi- 
cer, ot sound judgment, and is a thorough exponent ot the great 
principles governing banking and finance. Mr. Bennett is a resi- 
dent of Cambridge, and is i)resident of tlie Cambridge Electric 
Light Com|)any, as also of tlie Fresh Pond Ice Company. The 
Market National Bank transacts a general business, ft lias great 
and remunerative lines ot loans and discounts and makes ex- 
tended series of collections, among its correspondents being the 
Hanover and Fourth National Banks of New York ; the National 
Bank of Hliuois, of Chicago, etc. The bank has safely weathered 
every financial crisis; its present management is eminently con- 
servative and Boston is to be congratulated upon the possession 
of such a valued financi.al factor. 

WE. MANNING & CO., Real Estate and Mortgages, No. 
•J66 Washington Street, (Room No. 3).— Among the best 
J known and most responsible firms engaged in the real 
estate line in Boston, may be mentioned that of W. 
E. Manning & Co., whose office is located at No. '266 Washington 
Street, Room 3. Established in 1873. this popular and reliable firm 
has from its inception steadily won its way to public favor and 
confidence and numbers among its clientele some of the staunch- 
est citizens in the community. The firm transacts a general real 
estate business, buying, selling, exchanging and letting city and 
suburban property of every description, and attends also to the 
collection of rents and the management ot estates. Loans are 
procured also and mortgages negotiated, while investments are 
desirably placed and insurance effected in first-class fire com- 
panies, and, altogether a very fine business done. Mr. Manning, 
who is the sole member, the company being nominal, is a gentle- 
man of middle age, and a native of this city. He is a man of en- 
tire probity in his dealings, as well as energy and excellent busi- 
ness ability, and prior to embarking in this line luid been for 
m.any years engaged in manufacturers' supplies and importing and 
exporting chemicals and naval stores. 



BREWSTER, COBB & ESTABROOK, Bankers, No 35 Congress 
Street.— This is an old establislied and thorouglily repre- 
sentative Boston banking house, its origin dating back to 
1854, wlien it was founded by Brewster, Sweet & Co. They 
were succeeded by tlie firm of Brewster. Bassett & Co., and event- 
ually in 18SS the present firm assumed the management. The in- 
dividual members of this copartnership are Messrs. Henry K. 
Cobb, Artliur F. Estabrook, f^liarles E. Eddy. C. H. Watson and 
Arthur L. Sweetser. These gentlenien are intimately identified 
witli tlie best interests of Boston, and tlieir house lias ever been a 
recognized exponent of just methods and legitimate enterprise in 
the financial world. Messrs. Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook conduct 
a general banking and brokerage business, ,and are advantageously 
connected with a large circle ot banks, bankers and copartners in 
various parts of the country. They buy and sell government, state 
and city bonds, make collections on all available points, and also 
■act as agents and advisers to a number of wealthy residents and 
capitalists. The firm have private wires to New York, Providence 
and New Bedford, and execute all commissions in a prompt and 
satisfactory manner. Messrs. Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook make 
a specialty of placing loans for state, city and railroad companies. 
The partners are popular members of the Boston and New York 
and Chicago Stock Exclianges. In conclusion we would observe, 
tliat they ably cover all branches of financial activity as bankers 
and brokers with zeal, integrity and well organized methods, 
wliich reflects great credit on the facilities, ability and resources of 
this responsible firm. 

OCEAN STEAMSHIP BERTH COMPANY, Sole Owners of the 
Letters Patent and Property of the Brunswick Ships' Berth 
Company, No. 7 Exchange Place.— The time is r.apidly ap- 
proaching when no person going to Europe or to foreign 
countries, will patronize a steamer which is not fitted with self- 
leveling berths. AVIien once tlie traveling public has experienced 
the delightful repose afforded l)y these berths, it will demand 
them for ocean use. equally as much as the Pullman cars are 
required for land transit, for, in point of f.act, the self-leveling 
berth is the " Ocean Pullman." In connection with these re. 
marks we desire to make suitable reference in this commercial 
review of Boston, to tlie representative and successful Ocean 
Steamship Berth Company, sole owners by purchase of the letters 
patent and property formerly owned by the Brunswick Ships' 
Berth Company. The Ocean Steamsliip Berth Company was duly 
incorporated under the laws of Maine in 1887 with an authorized 
capital of $500,000, and since its organization at that d.ate has 
already obtained a liberal and influential patronage. The execu- 
tive officers of the company, are Dr. H. E. Townsend, presi- 
dent, and Mr. Chas. R. Tucker, Jr., treasurer. When the Pull- 
man car was first brought to tlie attention of the traveler 
but little interest was manifested in it, and its obvious merits 
carelessly passed over. Many people regarded it as an extortion, 
and were disinclined to pay for its use, while some regarded it as 
an aristocratic exclusion inconsistent with the American demo- 
cratic idea. For years the Pullman cars were but sparingly pat- 
ronized and the railroad corporations disliked to haul them. To- 
day, owing to the untiring energy of the Pullman company, the 
public has been convinced, railroad companies have been com- 
pelled to haul them on account of the demand, and no thoroughly 
equipped passenger train is complete without them. Analagous to 
tlie Pullman experience is that arising from the introduction of 
the self-leveling berth of the Ocean Steamship Berth Company. It 
w,as with difficulty that passengers could at first be induced to try 
them and steamship companies be led to adopt them, and even to- 
day but comparatively few of the traveling public are cognizant 
ot the merits of the berth. Numerous attempts have been made to 
invent a berth which sliould be self-leveling, that is, one that 
would always maintain a horizontal position no matter how great 
the roll of the steamer, and one that would rotate and not swing. 
This has only been achieved in the berth now owned by this com- 
pany, and is secured to it by letters patent ofthe United States and 
foreign countries. The berths are now in use upon the steamers 
of the Inman and North German lines, and it is the purpose of the 
Ocean Steamship Berth Company to introduce them extensively 
and as rapidly as possible to the ocean-traveling public, affordins 
them the greatest degree of comfort. 



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FARLEY, HARVEY & CO., Importers and .lobbPis of Bry Goods, 
Nos. 61 and 67 Chauncy, and Nos, 39, 41 and 4S Bedford Streets. 
— Tlie wliolesale dry goods trade of Boston has attained 
proportions of the greatest magnitude, and tlie supremacy 
maintained by tliis city in that field of commerce is almost wholly 
<lue to the exercise of an able and energeticbusiness policy, on the 
part "f our leading representative houses, coujiled with the ample 
resources at their connnand. One of the oldest, largest and best 
known houses tluis referred to, is that of Messrs. Farley, Harvey 
& Co., located at Nos. 61 and 61 Ch.anncy, and Nos. 39, 41 and 43 
Bedford Streets. This firm enjoys an enviable reputation as ex- 
tensive importers and jobbers of dry goods. Tlie business was 
founded in 1848, by Mr. N. W. Farley. In 1807 Mr. G. D. Harvey be- 







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was also admitted topartneiship compusiugtheflim isat piesent 
constituted. The pieniises occupied by the hrm weie destioyed 
by fire in 1872, on Summer Street, and the present site lias been 
occupied since 1877. Here a spacious salesroom, basement and 
lofts are utilized, having a frontage of eighty, and a depth of one 
liundred feet, where is displayed a most excellent stock in fancy 
and staple lines, chief among which may be named imported and 
domestic dress fabrics, linens, domestics and wliite goods, woolens, 
and many valuable specialities in complete assortment. Messrs. 
silks, Farley, Harvey & Co., are recognized as among the most ac- 
tive and extensive importers in this city, being always in the fore- 
front of the trade in securing tlie freshest novelties and latest pat- 
terns in all fabrics of the loom. Tlie partners are thoroughly ex- 
perienced in catering to the demands of buyers from every section 
of the country, and their widespread and influential trade has 
been developed;by reason of a thoroughly enterprising, liberal and 
honorable business policy. A force of from fifty to sixty ex- 
perienced clerks and siilesmen are required for the exigencies of 
the business. Mr. Farley, senior came from the Granite State to 
Boston in 1848 and lias continuously been engaged in his piesent 
line of business from that date. Mr. Harvey is also a New Hamp- 
shire man by birth, and Identified with the Boston dry goods trade 
for m.any years. Mr. A. C. Farley is a gentleman in the early 
prime of life, and trained to the business from his boyhood. All 
are prominent members of the Boston Merchants' Association. 



FRENCH BROTHERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Pro- 
visions, Groceries, and Ship Stores, Fruit and Vegetables, 
Nos. 390,392 and 394 Hanover Street.— A careful reviewof the 
l)usiness interests of Boston reveals the existence of a class 
of houses, prepared to compete in tlie several lines they represent 
with the rival establishments of any city in the United States. 
Tlieir complete stocks, ample resources and remarkable enterprise 
are matters of which our citizens have every reason to be pnmd. 
In connection with these remarks, special reference is made in this 
commercial review to the representative and progressive firm of 
Messrs. French Brothers, wholesale and retail dealers in provis- 
ions, groceries, ship stores, fruit and vegetables, whose office and 
.salesrooms are located at Nos. 390 to .394 Hanover Street. This busi- 
ness was established eight years ago by Messrs. Byron L. and Elmer 
L.French. Both partners have ever been identified with the best 
class of trade, and in all departments of their establishment have 
successfully aimed to give entire satisfaction to their numerous 
patrons, while at the same time they possess great pr.actical experi- 
ence in all details, and personally attend to all orders. The prem- 
ises occupied comprise a superior store, having a frontage of sixty 
feet, by a depth of seventy feet, with a spacious basement and 
second floor. Tlie store is utilized for meats, canned goods and 
vegetables, the second floor for groceries and ship chandlery. The 
different departments are arranged and fitted with special refer- 
ence to the tr.ade, which involves the handling of a vast quantity 
of meat, provisions, etc., and it may be safely asserted that in 
freshness, quality and general excellence, the stock of Messrs. 
Fieiich Brothers' has no superior iu tlie city. The store is a model 
of neatness and cleanliness, and the provision dejiartnient is sup- 
plied with a large refrigerator for the preservation of meat, etc. 
Messrs. French Brothers deal only in the finest groceries, teiis, 
cotfees, etc., and pay particular attention to the furnisliing of ves- 
sels. In such staples as canned goods, sugars, syrups and soaps, 
the firm is always prepared to olfer substantial inducements to 
patrons. They promptly and carefully fill orders at the lowest 
possible prices, and their trade extends not only throughout all 
sections of Boston and its vicinity, but also largely among the 
leading steamship lines. Tlie firm employ twelve clerks, a.ssist- 
ants, etc. Both Messrs. Byron L. and Elmer L. French were born 
in Vermont, but have resided in Boston for the last eighteen 
years, where they are higlily esteemed in business circles for 
their enterprise, energy and integrity. To those who desire a 
high grade of provisions and groceries, this pojuilar house com- 
mends itself as one that m.ay always be implicitly relied on, to 
furnish only such supplies as shall rank superior in every respect. 

EDWARD A. SAMUELS, rublisher of Choice Band Music, 
Band Bonks, Etc., No. 86 State Street.— The most extensive 
and representative band music publishing house of the city 
of Boston, is that of Mr. Edward A. Samuels. This business 
was established twenty years ago by Mr. Samuels, who has since, 
built up a liberal, influential and iiermanent patronage in all sec- 
tions of the United States and Canada. Mr. Samuels publishes ex- 
tensively choice band music, band books.albums tor military b.ands, 
cornet and piano music, which are ottered to customers at ex- 
tremely low prices. He has already supplied music for 10,000 bands 
in the United States and Canada and his patronage is steadily in- 
creasing, owing to the sniieriority and excellence of his publica- 
tions, which are general favorites with a critical public wherever 
introduced. Though the American people have not yet produced 
such famous musicians as Handel, Mozart and Beethoven, yet the 
present generation has made marked advances in musical culture. 
Music is an unfailing source of pleasure and a powerful means for 
development and advancement, and its importance to society is 
now universally acknowleded and recognized. This taste for mu- 
sic has been cultivated in no small degree by Mr. Samuels, whose 
publications are now everywhere recognized and appreciated by 
eminent musicians. The premises occupied are commodious, and 
the stock is systematically arranged in all departments and full 
and complete in every particular. Mr. Samuels is a native of 
Boston, well known throughout a large iiorlion of Massachusetts 
and is highly esteemed by the community for his sound business 
principles and integrity, and h.as ever evinced the greatest 
anxiety to assist in any measure or movement, which have been 
brought forward to .advance musical literature and studies. 



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NOREIS PIANO AND DIAMOND COMPANY, Dealers in 
Pianos and Organs, Diamonds, vvatclies and Jewelry, No. 
37 c;ourt Street (Opposite Court House).— Those articles of 
universal demand in tlie reflned, intelligent and wealthy 
communities of civilization— nuisical instruments and jewelry and 
precious stones, are of varying degrees of value and merit, so 
largely so, indeed, as to necessitate the average purchaser dealing 
'with an honorable and responsible firm it they wish to avoid all 
chance of imposition and deception and rest assured that every 
article is absolutely as represented. In Boston, and as regards 
New England, the most justly celebrated and reliable concern in 
the above lines is the Norris Piano and Diamond Company of No. 
37 Court Street. This extensive business was founded in 1852 at 
No. 3 Tremont Row by the late Mr. G. W. Norris, father of the 
jiresent proprietors and was con- 
tinued at No. 1 Pemberton Stinare 
by tlie name of the Palace of Music, 
and, so remained until 1882 when 
the style was changed to the 
American Piano and Diamond Com- 
pany, with headquarters at No. 004 
Washington Street. Eventually in 
1887 it was removed to the more 
commodious quarters. No. 37 Court 
Street, under the above style and 
title. Mr. Norris became nationally 
famous for the superior goods he 
handled and his liberal, honorable 
policy. Upon his lamented decease 
in August, 1887, he was succeeded 
by his sons, Messrs. L. W., A. M., 
and E. E. Norris, all natives of 
Somerville, and now residents re- 
spectively of Everett, Winthrop, and 
this city. They occupy very spa- 
cious, anel maguificentlyequipped 
•and furnished premises, 150 feet in 
dimensions, where they carry a large 
stock of the popular Norris pianos, 
with a department larger than the 
average jewelry store devoted to 
their splendid and comprehensive 
stock of diamonds, watches and jew- 
~ --^" *..v.S;- ■ - eiry. This is the bargain store of 

New England for everything in the above lines. For instance 
pianos ranging all the way from $40 up to $600, any one of which 
can be purchased by paying from $'> to $25 down, and from 
$3 to $20 monthly thereafter. These pianos are of tlie company's 
own make, constructed of the best materials and upon the most 
approved principles, embodying all the modern improvements, 
and justly renowned for perfect action, purity and brilliancy of 
tone, great comp.ass and power, and elegance and durability. 
The firm also sell the best organs on easy terms, do all kinds of 
tuning and repairing, and are leaders in this important branch of 
trade. This is also headquarters for the popular music boxes, of 
which the company imports a large assortment of all .sizes from 
Geneva, Switzerland, and which are kept in their miscellaneous 
musical depot and are made a leading specialty, selling at prices 
ranging from $1 to $125, for cash or on instalments. Here are the 
best make of cornets, drums, piccalos, zithers, flutes, accordeons, 
guitars, banjos, violins, harmonicas, metallaphones, children's 
pianos, etc., all at prices which, quality considered, cannot be 
duplicated elsewhere. This is the place to buy diamond jewelry, 
where the largest stock .and choicest di.amoiids can be had at a 
sm3.Il margin above cost. For instance, di.amond rings. $5 to $400; 
diamond e.-vr jewels, $10 to $600; diamond studs .and collar buttons, 
$6 to $300, etc., etc., .also full lines of solid gold jewelry in .all the 
latest styles. A feature of the company's business worthy of atten- 
tion and affording opportunities that will be gladly .availed of by 
many is. that diamonds, watches and jewelry at reduced prices 
are taken in exchange for pianos, organs, etc. Many are thus 
en.abled to secure a piano at but slight cash outlay. Their stock of 
watches is equally desirable, comprising ladies' and gents' gold 
and silver w.atches from $5 to $1.')0; also plain and fancy clocks, 
optical goods, etc. The warerooms are divided into three depart- 




ments, viz: The piano department, under the'supervision of Mr. 
L. W. Norris; the di.amond department, under the supervision of 
Mr. A. M. Norris, and the small musical instruments' department, 
under .Mr. E. E. Norris' supervision. The copartners bring to bear 
vast practical experience; they are leading authorities as to all 
goods they handle, selecting with the utmost care and selling in 
such enormous quantities as to be able to place prices away below 
those of dealers doing a limited trade. The company publishes 
about four months in the year, during tlie holid.ay .season a very 
h.andsome eight-page paper, and whicli is full of interesting stories, 
sketches, v,aluable receipts and other informtion, besides .advertise- 
ments of the company's specialties. Every one of our readers 
should send for a copy, and when they want a piano, or musical 
Instruineiit, any jewelry,watch or clock, they can by selecting here 
save money and feel certain of securing the best bargain obtain- 
able in New England. The Messrs. Norris are popular and 
respected business men and have ever retained the confidence of 
leading commercial and fln.aucial circles. In conclusion we would 
state, that the late Mr. G. W. Norris was the originator of the 
now celebrated instalment plan, having been the first to inaugu- 
rate the sale of pianos on monthly payments. 

J A. TUCKER & CO., Original Bay State Bone Super-Phos- 
phate, No. 13 Doane Street— The growing demand for fertil- 
^ izers for agricultural operations indicates that farmers and 
growers of special crops have come to realize the absolute 
necessity of m.aking liberal useof the best'manures if they desire to 
derive increased returns from tlieir lands. As in every other branch 
of industry in Bostoii; so in that of the fertilizer trade there are 
numerous competitors for public favor, and prominent among the 
number is the representative and reliable firm ot Messrs. J. A. 
Tucker & Co.. manufacturers of the Original Bay St.ate Bone Super- 
Phosphate, whose oliice is located at No. 13 Doane Street. The 
flriu's factory, which is fully supplied with the latest improved 
machinery and appliances, is situated at Chelsea. This business 
Wits e.stablished twenty-eight years Ago by Mr. J. A. Tucker, who 
eventually, in 1880, admitted his brotlier, Mr. H. F. Tucker, into 
partnership, the firm being known by the style and title of J. A. 
Tucker & Co. They make a specialty of maiiutacturing the 
Origiii.al Bay State Bone Super-Phosphate, which is especially 
suitable for the nourishment and forcing of crops of all kinds. This 
superphosphate is carefully prepared to meet a long-felt want, 
and is found by practical results to be .absolutely unrivalled. The 
firm fill all orders at the lowest possible prices, and guarantee 
entire s.atisfaction to patrons. They .ship direct from their fiic- 
tory, and their trade, which is steadily increasing, extends 
throughout all sections ot New England and New York. Mr. J. 
A. Tucker was born in Dunstable, Mass., but has resided in Bos- 
ton tor the last thirty-nine years. He established the first post- 
office at East Pepperill, Mass., and was the postmaster until he 
retired and came to Boston. Mr. J. A. Tucker was in oflice under 
the .administr.ation of President Fillmore and remained so till he 
requested President Pierce, whom he knew personally, to pl.ace 
.another man in his position. President Pierce appointed the per- 
son Mr. Tucker recommended. The position is now worth $1,400 
per annum. Mr. Tucker w.as a member of the Boston School Board 
tor nine years, an alderman three years, and is now President of 
the City Hospital Board. His brother, Mr. H. F. Tucker, is a 
native of Pepperill. 

WG. ROBV & CO., Metal Dealers, No. 11 Broad Street.— 
Coppe. in its native state is generously distributed 
J throughout the United States. Our copper mines in 
importance rank with iron, coal, gold and silver. A 
prominent and well established house, dealing extensively in 
metals, in the city ot Boston, is that of W. G. Roby & Co., No. 11 
Broad Street, who are among the oldest metal houses in the city. 
Their stores are tnlly stocked with every variety of crude and 
manufactured metals, which are offered to buyers at the low- 
est ruling market r.ates. Mr. Roby is also selling agent for the 
well known Taunton Y'ellow Metai. and Colorado Ingot Cop- 
per, Copper Nails, Sheet and Bolt Copper, Yelloto Metal Bolts and 
Nails, which are unrivalled for quality and general excellence. 
The incre.a-sing trade of this relLable house extends throughout all 
sections of the United States and Canada. 



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NEW ENGLAND HOUSE, Corner Blackstone and Clinton 
Streets.— Boston is favored with tlie benetits and advan- 
tages derived from liaviug located in lier midst some of 
tlie best hotels in existence, which are recognized by trav- 
elers and experts as a true type of tlie modern art of hotel-keep- 
ing. One of the most popular and best-patronized is the New Eng- 
land House, situated at the corner of Blackstone and Clinton 
Streets. This famous hostlery was opened about the year of 
1836, and was successfully managed by numerous parties, among 
them being sucli well-known liotel men as Paran Stevens, who left 
it to take possession of the Revere house ; Lambert Maynard who 
was its proprietor for twenty-eight years; Joel (iray : Bell cSi Bailey 
—the latter firm being succeeded in ls73 by the present jiopular pro- 
prietor, Mr. Josiah T. Wilson. These are among those whose names 
have been linked with the New England House in the past, and from 



establishment of machinists and inillwriglits in Chicago, remain- 
ing there and in Fulton. 111., until 1858, when he returned to 
Brighton, Mass,, and entered into partnership with his brother in 
the then famous Brighton Hotel, coi.tinuing in the hotel business 
ever since. His record as a hotel man exceeds in continuous serv- 
ice that or any other Boniface now in Boston, while liis reputation 
as a genial, prompt, enterprising and agreeable liost is second to 
none in the whole country. 



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-IRAM WHITTINGTON & CO., M-anufacturers of Hor.se 
Blankets, Carriage Robes, Etc., No. 22 Federal Street and 
No. 121 Congress Street.— Tlie elements of commercial suc- 
cess are seldom found in happier combination than in tlie 
case of Mr. Hiram Wliittington of this city, who has secured for 
the goods manufactured and dealt in by his hou^e such celebrity 



whose booli of experience, laudable ambition and sound judgment^ ^coupled with a trade of great and growing magnitude. Mr. Whit- 
— • tington w.os born in Massachusetts, and af- 

ter acquiring an education, he decided to 
embark in commeicial puiEUits, and perceiv- 
ing an opening in the line of better and 
cheaper grades of horse blankets, carriage 
robes, etc., he in 1871 began tlieir manufacture 
under the name and style of Hiram Whit- 
tington & Co. He began with but limited 
experience and little or no capital, finan- 
cially speaking, more than counterbalanced 
however by his sound judgment, great en- 
ergy of character and sterling integrity. 
He speedily secured the recognitioji and 
jiatronage of tlie best class of the trade 
tlirouglicmt the United States, and once in- 
troduced into any section, his horseblankets, 
carriage robes, saddlery and carriage hard- 
ware, rapidly enlarged their sales strictly 
on theii merits. The substantial induce- 
ments offered by him both as to price and 
quality, have had their natural result, and 
Mr. Wliittington though the youngest, is now 
the leading representative of any house in 
the above lines in Boston or New Engl.and. 
^ He manufactures horse blankets and car- 
riage robes very extensively and of all 
weight and grades, adapted to every class 
of t-,;de throughout the United States. 
Quality has ever been his first consideration 
and his personal attention is given to the se- 
lection of the wools, yarns, etc., for the pur- 
poses of manufacture. He has introduced the 
most popular original shades and patterns in 
robes, and the attractive array of these goods to be seen in his large 
establishment is sufficient evidence of his cultured, refined taste. 
Mr. Whittington also imports and deals heavily inall klndsof sad- 
dlery and carriage hardware, riding saddles and everything con- 
nected with these lines, all bearing the most famous brands of Euro- 
pean and American manufacturers, and the best in their line. His 
store is centrally located at No. 22 Federal Street, running through 
to No 121 Congress Street, securing a double frontage, and .abund- 
ance of light. A thorough system of organization isobserv.able, and 
buyers can at onee see any goods called for, a number of oblig- 
ing and courteous clerks being always in attendance for this pur- 
pose. Mr. Wliittington is a recognized authority in everything 
appertaining to his branch ot trade, and successfully solved sev- 
eral problems insuring greater efficiency and security. He is the 
inventor of a patent hame bolt handy, simple, strong and durable, 
and which is now largely used by both Boston and New England 
street car and teaming companies. It is destined to supersede 
all other hame bolts lor heavy harness and is such a marked 
improvement that will lead the trade to expect further inven- 
tions from the same source. Mr. Whittington has been a perm- 
<anent resident of this city for eighteen years past, and during this 
period has won the confidence and esteem of the leading social 
and business circles of Boston. He is'a typeof New England's intel- 
ligentand educated young business men and to whom is so largely 
due the renewed spirit of capacity and ability, which permanently 
retains to this section its due share of national trade supremacy. 




many a landlord has since taken a leaf for his guidance and sup- 
port. Its location is excellent. The site is the centre of all 
the markets, fruit and provision dealers, and in close prox- 
imity to the Faneuil Hall and Quincy markets. It is a four-story 
structure, conducted on both the American and European plans, 
and contains ninety-nine rooms for the use of guests. Its spacious 
and inviting dining-room has a seating cap.tcity for one hundred 
and fifty persons, whilea fine lunch-room is also provided, where is 
provided all kinds of hot meats, vegetables, tea and coffee, salads, 
pastry and hot lunches to order, and which is largely patronized 
by the general public, who are attracted by the fair prices and ex- 
cellent menu. The best table for the price in Boston is set right 
here at the New England house. Mr. Wilson is a liber.al andpains- 
t.aking caterer. He believes in the best and plenty of it, and to 
travelers who desire the comforts of life we would recommend 
this old-established and deservedly popular house. Rates are but 
$2 .and $2.50 per day on the American plan, and its service, cuisine 
and accommodations are unsurpassed. A word as to its host. Mr. 
Wilson is a native of New Ipswich, N. H., where he was born 
Dec. 18, 1834. At the age of fifteen he entered the hotel of his 
brother, Geo. A. Wilson, at Watertown, Mass., where he stiyed 
two years. Then, desiring to learn a trade, he choose that of a ra.a- 
chinist, and became an apprentice of Capt. Seth Wilmarth, of the 
South Boston Locomotive Works, where he thoroughly learned the 
trade in all its various departments. In 185.5 he occupied the posi- 
tion of machinist and engineer for Messrs. Fulton & Ferkius' large 



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ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON. 



FANEUIL HALL NATIONAL BANK, J. V. Fletcher, President ; 
T. G. Hiler, Cashier; Corner Soutli Market Street and Mer- 
cliants' Row.— The city of Boston as a great national centre 
of financial activity lias in no branch attained sucli a re- 
markable degree of development, as the prosperity and usefulness 
of her banks and fiscal corporations. Tlieir management is m the 
hands of men whose ability, prudence, and just methods have won 
the admiration and confidence of the financial world. In thiscon- 
nection, special reference is made in tiiis commercial review to 
the old established and successful Fanenii Hall National Bank, 
which was originally organized in 1857 as a State Bank. In 1865 it 
was reorganized under the national banking laws with a paid-up 
capital of $1,000,000, which has been further augmented by a surplus 
of $2UO,000 and undivided profltsof$6D,nOO. The Faneuil Hall National 
Bank receives upon favorable terms tlie accounts of manufacturing 
firms, corporations, merchants and others. It likewise issues sight 
drafts useable in the principal cities of the United States and Canada, 
makes collections on all available points, negotiates and collects bills 
of exchange, discounts commercial paper and attends carefully and 
promptly to all kinds of legitimate banking business. Its career 
lias been a very prosperous one and closely allied with the growth 
and development of the city's business interests. The following 
gentlemen, who are widely and favorably known in financial cir- 
cles for their Integrity and prudence, are theollicers: J.V. Fletcher, 
president; T. G. Hiler, cashier. Directors: J. V.Fletcher, J.H.Cur- 
tis, RalphWarner, Clias. E. Morrison, S. S. Learnard, A.J. Adams, G. 
W. Fiske,and L. M. Haskins. The bank occupies spacious and hand- 
some banking rooms in the four-story brick building fronting on 
Faneuil Hall Square, Merchants' Row and South Market Street. 
Mr. Fletcher, the president, is also president of the Belmont Sav- 
ings Bank, trustee of the Belmont Public Library and is the Repub- 
lican Senator to the Massachusetts Senate from the Second Mid- 
dlesex District. Mr. Fletcher is an able financier, and a vigorous 
exfjonent of the soundest principles governing banking and finance. 
During four years membership of the Legislature of Massachu- 
setts, he was one of the committee on banks and banking, 
and for the last two years has been Senate Chairman of that 
committee. Mr. Hiler, the cashier, has been connected with the 
bank tor many years, and is eminently qualified for his important 
position. The business of this substantial bank is steadily increas- 
ing, and its defiosits at the present time are about $1,600,000, while 
its future prospects are of the most encouraging character. 

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COM- 
PANY, Chas. B. Cumings, President; John M. Corbett. 
Secretary: No. 28 State Street.— Insurance, th,at element 
in society which guarantees against loss that may arise to 
property or merchandise from the ravages of fire, is one of the 
most potent influences in the development of business activity and 
human progress. Of the varied phases of the principle of fire in- 
surance none presents such popular and beneficial features, as the 
mutual system, of which the old established and substantial Mas- 
sachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company is one of the most suc- 
cesslul exponents in the United States. The main office of the 
company is at No. 28 State Street, Boston. This company was orig- 
inally organized in 1798 and after many years of success, was re- 
organized and duly incorporated in 1872, under the laws of Massa- 
chusetts. The following gentlemen, who are widely and favorably 
known in mercantile circles for their prudence, energy, and integ- 
rity, are the officers .and directors, viz: Chas. B. Cumings, presi- 
dent; John M. Corbett, secretary. Directors: H. H. Hunnewell, 
Thomas Wigglesworth, Nathaniel J. Br.adlee, C. Wm. Loring, Chas. 
B. Cumings, George A. Gardner, 'WiUiam P. Kuhn, William Minot, 
Jr.. Moses Williams, William Endicott, Jr., Peter C. Brooks, Frank- 
lin Haven,Jr.,NathanielH.Emmons, and John L.Thornrtike. The 
business of the company is confined to the insurance of dwellings, 
house property, etc. The company's st.atement to policy holders 
January 1st, ISSS. w.as as follows: cash assets, $328,766.32; contin- 
gent assets, $147,087.69; total, $475,854.01. Liabilities (including 
capital and reinsurance fund), $272,196.95; cash surplus, $56,669.37; 
amount at risk. $19,401,503.00. Although the cost in the Massachu- 
setts Mutual Fire Insurance Company has been less than other 
companies, it has always paid its losses promptly, while it need 
scarcely be .added to prudent and able business men. that the true 
principle of insurance is to become your own insurer. In this 



carefully managed company there are no inducements to take spe- 
cially hazardous risks, as the object is to save more than to make 
money. All policies cover against loss and damage by lightning, 
as well as by fire. There is a large amount of insurance in New 
England and the adjacent states, in which the risk is very slight, 
yet it is not prudent to be without protection. To this class espe- 
cially this responsible company is well adapted. In conclusion we 
would observe that this noted corporation is in every way worlliy 
the attention of all persons desirous of placing tlieir property in a 
company's liands, which is abundantly able and makes a specialty 
of immediately adjusting and paying all losses as soon as they are 
properly determined. 

J A. CUMMINGS PRINTING COMPANY, Printers, Publishers 
and Stationers, No. 252 Wasliington Street.— In some lines 
^ of business the mere mention of the name of a house carries 
with it the ideaofstrengtii, reliability and success. The 
printing, publishing, and stationery establishment of tlie J. A. 
Cummings Printing Company, at No. 252 Wasliington Street, 
is one of this sort. Tlie foundation of the business of this house 
was laid in 1868 by Mr. J. A. Cummings, who died in 1886, and in 
1887 the present company was incorporated witli a capital of $12,- 
000, and with the following board of officers, viz : President, John 
Haskell Butler; secretary, S. Z. Bowman; treasurer, G. W. Cum- 
mings. Mr. Guy P. Cummings, son of the founder, and Mr. Wm. A. 
Wood are the business managers. Under such favorable auspices, 
the business has grown in extent and reputation until it stands 
well in the front rank of all tlie houses in New England. The bus- 
iness premises comprise two floors, 25x125 feet, wliich are thor- 
oughly equipped with new and improved machinery and appli- 
ances, including nine presses, operated by steam power, and em- 
ployment is given to from twenty-five to thirty skilled hands. In 
later years, while devoting prompt and skillful attention to the gen- 
eral mercantile line, this house has made a long step forward in 
the direction of the very highest class of book, illustrated catalogue 
and magazine work. They are also the publishers of the Knights 
of Honor Reporter, the best society paper in the country, witli a 
circulation of 40,000 monthly, which is the largest of any society 
paper known. Its methods of business, while recognizing the 
competition of the hour, do not go to the length of placing its 
prices at the lowest rate offered for inferior work, but parties who 
deal with tliis house will find its motto to be "a fair price for fair 
work," and that proves the most satisfactory in the long run. The 
patronage is large, first-class and influential in this city and 
throughout New England, and it is clearly evident that both the 
facilities of the company and the policy of its management have 
met with the approval of the trade. Orders and coinmissions by 
telephone or otherwise, are given prompt and careful attention, 
and all transactions are placed upon a thoroughly substantial and 
successful basis. The officers of tlie company are among the best 
known citizens and prominent business men of Boston. The pres- 
ident, Mr. Butler, is a leading member of the legal profession, as 
is also Mr. Bowman, the secretary, who has served his fellow-men 
as a member of Congress. Mr. Cummings, the treasurer, is a 
brotlier of the founder of the business, and cashier of the Frances- 
town National Bank. The curriculum embraces everything in the 
job printing line. 

FRANCIS nOANE & CO., Manufacturers of Blank Books, Sta- 
tioners, Etc., No. 116 State Street.— This business was estab- 
lished in 1825. In 1867 Messrs. Doane & Greenough suc- 
ceeded to the man.agement and continued it till 1884, when 
on the retirement of Mr. Greenough. Mr. Francis Doane became 
sole proprietor. The line of business includes everything re- 
quired in the routine of office work, such as blank books, day 
books, ledgers, journals, cash books, etc., letter, note and bill 
heads, fine commercial printing, checks, bonds, certificates of 
stock, lithographic work, stationery, flexible memorandums and 
letter presses. Mr. Doane makes a specialty of railway, office 
.and bank supplies, and guarantees entire satisfaction. He gives 
personal attention to the filling of all orders, and quotes prices in 
all cases very difficult to be equ.alled elsewhere in the city. Mr. 
Doane was born in Boston, and is an honorable and able business 
man, and is well worthy of the liberal patronage, which lias re- 
warded his efforts. 



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JOHN POST, JR., &C0., Mechanical Engineers, Mason Build- 
ing, No. 70 Kilby Street.— New England has no better source 
ot supply in tlie line of steam engines for its innumerable 
factories and mills than that offered by Messrs. John Post. 
Jr., & Company, the well-known meclianical engineers, whose 
offices are located in the Mason building. No. 70 Kilby Street. 
This firm have been established in the business here since 18S5. and 
are deservedly prominent and popular as dealers in and agents for 
the Ide steam engines, the Rollin steam engines, and tlie 
Weber centrifugal pump, making a leading specialty of 
supplying factories and large works with engines of from 
ten to two thousand horse power. They also contract for 
supplying entire plants of nuachinery. The engines fur- 
nished by this reli.able and responsible house are noted for their 
simplicity, strength, durability and perfection of operations, and 
have no superiors in this or any other country. These engines 
have been furnished by this lirni to Messrs. Abbott & Co., Granite- 
ville, N. H. ; the Stockiugnet mill, at Manchester, N. H.; the 
Waterbury Watch Company, the Waterbury Clock Company, the 
American Mill Company, and the Smith-Gregg Manufacturing 
Company, all at Waterbury, Conn.; the Bridgeport Forge Com- 
pany, at Bridgeport, Conn.; the P. and F. Corbin Company, at 
New Britain, Conn., and others. Controlling the sales of tliese 
engines tlirougliout New England, thio urm are in a position to 
conduct the business under tlie most favorable auspices and to 
place all transactions upon a substantial and satisfactory b.asis. 
Contr.acts and commissions are promptly and carefully fulfilled, 
and many of the incidental improvements in the engines and 
machinery supplied are due to the long experience and close ob- 
servation of Mr. Post, who is determined that perfection shall be 
as nearly attained .as human ingenuity can possibly acliieve, in all 
works set up under liis management. Mr. Post is a n.ative of this 
city, la practical mechanical engineer of large experience and es- 
tablished reputation, formerly employed in that capacity for 
twelve years in a large cotton mill, and widely prominent as an 
.accomplished and expert master of his profession. He is highly 
esteemed in the social and business circles of this city, and stands 
deservedly high in the esteem ot the trade throughout New Eng- 
land. 

HfRAM W. SMITH, Practical Watch M.aker, and Manufacturer 
of W.atch Oil, No. 1.57 Washington Street.— .Mr. Hiram W. 
Smith, wiis born in Cornish, N. H., and has been identified 
with the watch making trade for more tlian half acentury- 
In 1840 he left his native state to come to Massachusetts, and for 
thirty -eiglit years lie has been in business on his own .account ij> the 
locality where he is now located. For ofHce and salesroom he oc- 
cupies the second floor of the building, which is attractively and 
appropriately fitted up. Here is displayed a large, fine stock of 
watches of foreign and domestic manufacture, and the trade 
which is chiefly ot a wholesale character, extends to all parts 
of the country. For more than tliirty years Mr. Smith has also been 
engaged .n the manufacture of watch oil that, as yet, has met with 
no equal in the market, and is largely used in the principal w.atch 
f.actories of the country and by tlie trade generally. Thisoii is 
taken from the head of black fish, and is free from acids and gluti- 
nous substances, so that it will remain for years perfectly limpid in 
all climates. As a lubricant for chronometers and watches it hr.s 
no competitor. The following correspondence will explain itself: 
—"New York, Jan. 17. 1888. Dear Sir:— Kindly let me know what 
oil is used on the Waterbury watches at their factory. It is ap. 
parently a good one. Yours truly, J. P. Delany." An inquiry in 
response to above brought the fallowing reply: "The Waterbury 
Watch Co., Waterbury, Ct., Feb. 1, 1888. Mr. A. Curtis Bond, Edi- 
tor of The Waterbury— Dear Sir:— For the past two years we have 
used a w.atch oil prepared by Hiram W. Smith, No. 157 Washington 
Street, Boston JIass. Previous to the fall ot 1886, we were having 
trouble with and complaints from the different oils we were then 
using. From 'he watchmakers employed in some of the oldest and 
best-known houses in New York and Bo'ton, we heard such good 
reports concerning this oil th.at we concluded to give it a trial, and 
since then we have used no other. We have ]iut it to the severest 
test -have found it to stand on our chronometers for over a year 
and to remain sweet, clear and limpid. As we repair our makc'of 
watches we have a good opportunity of witnessing the results on 



them, and we find that this oil does not gum like most of the other 
oils which we liiid previously tried. Mr. Smith is an old and favor- 
ably known w.atch repairer, and experienced the difficulties which 
all ot his craft do in procuring a reliable oil, and solved the prob- 
lem after years of experimenting. We cheerfully p.ay the tribute 
to the product, and trust that the reUail dealer who makes the 
inquiry of you, and all other retail watch dealers who appreciate 
the need ot a good, reliable watch oil, will send to Mr. Smith for a 
trial bottle as we did. Very truly yours, E. A. Locke, secretary." 

CHAS. E. HAI>L & CO., Manufiicturers and Importers of Mar- 
ble, Nos. 69 to 93 Charlestown Street.— Among the represen- 
tative .and reliable manufacturers and importers ot marble 
In the city of Boston is tlie old establislied and successtui 
firm of Messrs. Chits. E. Hall & Co., whose office, salesrooms and 
works are eligibly situ.ated on Cluarlestown Street. This business 
was established a quarter of a century ,ago by Mr. Chas. E. Hall. 
Ill 18C8 Mr. M. Moran became a partner, and in 1888 Messrs. W. 
J. Coogan, F. L. Magiiiie and M. J. Driscoll were admitted into 
partnersliip. the firm being known by the style and title of Cli.as. 
li. Hall & Co. The works have an area ot 15,000 square feel, and are 
fully equipped with the latest improved machinery and appliances- 
Here 250 skilled artisans are employed, and the machinery is driven 
by a powerful steam engine. Messrs. Chas. E. Hall & Co. import ex- 
tensively the finest lt,ali.an. and deal also in Vermont and Tennes- 
see, and all the other American m.arbles. They manufacture all 
kinds of mantels, altars, dados, tiling, plumbers' slabs, soapstone 
sinks and tubs and all kinds ot interior marble and soapstone work. 
The firm are prepared to turnisli any grade of marble work from 
the plainest to the most elaborate. Tlieir references in Boston 
are; S. S. Pierce's new building, Huntington Avenue; Safe De- 
posit Vaults, No. 87 Boylston Street; Burnham Building, Tremont 
Street; Tlie Boston Tavern ; Hougliton & Button's new building; 
Boston Post Office and Sub-Treasury; Boston Custom House. 
Elsewhere' Union Hallway .'■ttition, Portland, Me.; State War and 
N.avy Department. W.ashington, D. C. ; United States Court House 
and Post Office. N.ashville.Tcnn.; United States Court House and 
Post Office, Utica, N. Y'.; United States Court House and Post 
Office, Austin, Texas; United States Appraisers Stores, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. Estimates are promptly furnished and contracts taken 
for work of any magnitude, while care, reliability and moderate 
prices are always guaranteed. The partners are all natives of 
Massachusetts. They are highly regarded in trade circles for 
their artistic skill, industry and just metliods. Tlieir patronage 
extends througliout the United States and Canada and is steadily 
increasing owing to the superiority of their productions, 

HM. BATES & WALLEY, Stock Brokers. No. 51 State 
Street.— Among the most enterprising and popular firms 
^ of stock brokers in Boston are Messrs. H. M. Bates & W,al- 
ley, whose experience, perfected facilities .ind infinenlial 
connections entitle them to tlie contimied confidence and patron- 
age both of operators and investors. The business w.as established 
upw.ards of twenty two years ago by Mr. H. M. Bates and Henshaw 
B. Walley. In 1876 Messrs. Bates and Walley lormed the existing 
copartnership and bung to bear every qualification for the carry- 
ing on ot a stock commission business. Tliey bring to bear the 
widest range of pr.actical experience, perfected facilities and 
influenti.al connections in all the leading financial centres of the 
country. They trans.act a general business, promptly filling all 
orders for the purcluase or sale of bonds, stocks, or miscellaneous 
securities exclusively on commission, and through their corres- 
pondents promptly execute all orders in New York, Phil.adelphia 
and San Francisco, giving the utmost care and attention to the 
interests of their customers, who include ,a number of the leading 
capitalists and investors of New England and Boston. Mr. Bates 
h.as been an active member of the Boston Stock Exchange since 
18C6, he and Mr. Walley enjoy the confidence and esteem of the 
leading financial circles and are worthy representatives ot the 
Boston stock market. The firm's offices are centrally located in 
the Merchants' Exchange Building, and orders and inquiries relat- 
ing to intended investments receive the immediate p-^rsonal atten- 
tion ot the partners, and no house is better able to attend to the 
Interests of customers either in the city or in any section of Nev» 
England than that of this honorable and responsible firm. 



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NATIONAL MORTGAGE AND DEBENTURE COMPANY, 
Samuel N. Brown, Viesident; George May, Treasurer; No. 
51 State Street.— This company is tlie only corpoiation of 
the kind, having a Massachusetts perpetual charter. It 
was organized in 1886 with an autliorized capital of $500,0(10, of 
whicli S250,000 has been paid in. The following gentlemen, wlio 
are widely and favorably known in financial and mercantile cir- 
cles for their prudence, executive ability and integrity are tlie 
oHicers and directors, viz; Officers, Saimiei N. Brown, president; 
William P. Fowler, vice-president; George M.ay, treasurer ; Car- 
roll N. Beal, general manager; Geo. Y. Jolinson, general agent. 
Directors: Samuel N. Brown, of Fairbanks, Brown & Co., No. 83 
Milk Street, Boston ; William P. Fowler, lawyer. No. f State St reet, 
Boston ; George May, treasurer (formerly cashier First National 
Bank, St. Johnsbury, Vt.) ; Carroll N. Beal, manager (president 
Kansas Mortgage Company): Frank E. Cordley, of Young & Ful- 
ler, No. 1^1 Devonshire Street, Boston; Clark W. Hatch, of 
Hatch & Woodman, State and Kilby Streets, Boston; Charles 
A. Rogers, of Kogers A. Co., Milk Street, corner Pearl; Sam- 
uel K. Heyvvood, president People's Savings Bank, Worcester 
Mass.; Eli;is S. Seals, of Beals, Torrey & Co., Boston, Nortli Wey. 
mouth and Milwaukee: John E. Mulvane, president of Bank of 
Topeka, Topeka, Kansas; Charles P. Searle, lawyer, No. 70 Kilby 
Street, Boston ; Charles L. James, James & Abbot. No. 07 State 
Street, Boston ; Charles J. Glidden, treasurer Erie Telephone Co , 
Lowell, Mass. This responsible company has likewise made 
arrangements, whereby tlie Interests and capital of the Kansas 
Mortg.age Company have been consolidated witli those of the 
National Mortgiigf aiid Debenture Company. The Kans.as com- 
p.iny was one of the earliest pioneers, having begun loaning money 
upon farms and improved city properties in the west in 1869 as a 
private flrm, and continued actively therein to the date of consoli- 
dation two years ago. Its career has been marked by success and 
conservatism, while the results have been highly satisfactory to all 
who have had business relations with it. The National Mortg.age 
and Debenture Company is only authorized by its charter. First 
—To make loans of money secured by first mortgage, or deed of 
trust upon real estate. Second— To sell and dispose of the fccuri- 
ties so taken, and guarantee the payment thereof Third— To 
issue collateral trust or debenture bonds, and secure the payment 
of the same by the assignment of the securities owned by it. In 
the transaction of the business it is authorized to pursue the cor- 
poration is required to so conduct its affairs:— First— That no loans 
be made for a sum greater than half the cash value of the property 
securing the same. Second— That all moneys loaned shall be 
secured by mortgages or deeds of trust, which are perfect first liens 
upon the property covered thereby. Third— That the securities 
assigned for the benefit of the holders of the company's collateral 
trust, or debenture bonds, shall exceed the amount of such bonds 
in the ratio of one hundred to ninety. Fourth— That a guarantee 
fund, equal to one fourth of the capital of the company, must be 
created and kept invested in only such securities as the savings 
banks of Mass;iclmsetts are permitted to invest in. Fifth— That 
all real estate acquired by the corporation, through enforcing the 
collection of any loan made, shall be sold witlun a reasonable 
time. The corporation is also required by its charter, to make 
stated returns to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, showing its 
true condition, and is at .any and all times subject to be audited 
and examined by the Commissioner of Corporations, who is author- 
ized to take proceedings in the interest of the holders of the cor- 
poration's securities whenever, in his judgment, it is necessary to 
do so. Through a complete consolidation of interests. Kan.sas Mort- 
gage Co., of Topeka has now became the general western depart- 
ment of the National Mortgage and Debenture Co.. and its capable 
and experienced force is now engaged in making loans, which 
form the basis of the business of both companies, that of furnishing 
investors with ;in unusually desirable line of high class securities 
as follows: first mortgage loans and collateral trust bonds. Trust 
conditions: As trustee for the bondholders and custodian of the 
pledged collaterals, an old and favorably known eastern corpora- 
ation, the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, has been 
selected, and has entered into a written agreement whereby it 
undertakes that no bonds shall be certified save those for which 
collateral deposit has been made; to inspect the mortgages .as 
deposited, and accept none for the trust save those which fully 



conform to the standard fixed by the agreement; to maintain the 
proper ratio between the outstanding certihed bonds and the col- 
lateral deposit, and, in emergency, to realize upon the deposit, 
either by sale or collection, and use the proceeds in redemiition of 
the bonds. Each bond issued by the corporation recites the trust 
conditions on its face, and bears a certificate from the trustees to 
the effect that it is one of the bonds referred to and that the col- 
lateral deposit, to secure payment thereof, has been duly made. 
The collateral deposit: Tlie mortgage loans which make up the 
collateral trust deposit are carefully selected by the investing 
department of the coiupany, and are secured by first mortgage 
upon choice productive properties in the best agricultural sections 
of the country. With every possible legislative safeguard thrown 
around its operations, b,acked by ample capital, having an exten- 
sive acquaintance in, ana full information concerning all the 
desirable fields for investment, and the pr.actical knowledge 
requisite to the proper management of the interests of its clients, 
the corporation invites those having funds to place at interest to 
give the securities wliich it offers fair consideration, and will 
cheerfully furnish all who ask, by letter or in person, the fullest 
information concerning its methods, and the results already 
attained; and by adhering to those lines, which long experience has 
clearly proven thoroughly safe and legitimate, and which have uui- 
forraly produced the desired results, it can confidently assure all 
its patrons of the future of such funds as may be committed to its 
care. Full information regarding the company's bonds svill be 
sent upon application, and all inquiries relative to fields of opera- 
tion, business methods, etc., are cheerfully replied to. Besides 
the general offices of the company its securities are on sale at var- 
ious places throughout the country, notably: I. W. Parker, 
Kooms Nos. 31 and 3'2, Clark's Block, Natick, Mass; I. M. Board- 
man, Belfast, Maine; C. C. Chapman, Oxford Building, Portland, 
Maine ; Warner & Cocks, No. 45 Broadway, New York ; Rupert & 
Philips, Westminister, Pa.; W. A. Stone, No. 27 White's Opera 
House, Concord, N. H.; James D. Lane, No. 24 Wieting Block, 
Syracuse, N. Y. ; L. B, Tillotson, Cazenovia, N. Y. ; Maynard Sum- 
ner, Merchants National Bank, Rockland, Maine; Alex. D. Leete, 
No. 72 Westminister Street, Providence, E. I. ; Blake, Barrows & 
Brown, No. 9 Central Street, Bangor. Maine; E. L. Scott, West- 
field, Mass.: L. L.Keith, Machias, Maine; Frank Nelson, Calais, 
Maine ; N. B. Nutt, Eastport, Maine ; John H. Humphreys, Bath- 
Savings Institution, B;ith, Maine; R. W. Swift, First N,ational 
Bank, Provincetown .Mass ; general western office, Kansas Mort- 
gage Co.. No. 109 Sixtli Avenue, East Topeka, Kansas. 

AN. EEYNOLDS & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Fine 
Oils, No. 382 Atlantic Avenue.— A representative house is 
I that of Messrs. A. N. Reynolds & Co., the well-known 
manufacturers and dealers in fine oils for all purposes, 
lubricating compounds and greases, which li.as been in successful 
operation for a period of twelve years, and enjoys a large and in- 
fluential trade, at both wholesale and retail, In this city and 
throughout all the New England States. The premises occupied 
comiirise a spacious store and basement, and unsurpassed facili- 
ties are ,at hand for handling .and storing the immense and valua- 
ble stock that is here carried. This stock comprises all kinds of 
illuminating, engine, spindle, sperm, lubricating, linseed and 
other oils, compounds and greases, which are of the best quality 
known to the trade. The oils offered by this firm have from the 
first been recognized as the best that can be used for cylinder, 
engine, spindle and general machinery works, and are all guaran- 
teed pure and maintained at the highest standard of excellence. 
The lubricating compound of this firm is the outcome of tlie de- 
mand of machinery users for a lubricant that would effectually 
prevent wear and tear and give the best results with the greatest 
economy. It is warranted not to gum nor to contain any acid or 
deleterious substance. It requires less attention and lasts many 
times longer than anything of the kind in the market. The trade 
of the house in these valuable specialties h,as developed to gre.it 
proportions, including among its customers numerous leading mill 
and factory corpor<ations, I'ailway and steamship companies, steam 
users and manufacturers all over New England. Jlr. Reynolds, 
the active member of the flrm, was born in New York State, and is 
a member of the Boston Oil Association and stands very high in all 
circles. 



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THE QUINCY, Geo. G. Mann, Proprietor.— The Quincy is one of 
the representative institutions and a feature ol Boston, and 
as a magnificent liotel has no rival anywliere in the United 
States, conibinini; as it does in the most perfect manner 
every comfort, elegance and convenience with the refined, quiet 
atmosphere of the best circles of home life. Tlie Quincy was estab- 
lished seventy years ago and has always been a favorite stopping 
place for tlie eminent in every profession, branch of business, and 
tliose in public life. Repe.ated enlargements of this fine hotel have 
at different periods been necessitated to meet the growing demands 
(if tlie public, and it is now one of the largest on the continent. 
Its internal arrangements and furnishings are also of the best, and 
the house under tlie able, experienced proprietorship of Mr. 
George G.Mann, is (he best kept, most popular and comfortable 
hotel in New England. In 1874, Mr. J. W. Johnson and Mr. George 
G. Mann became sole proprietors under the name and style of J. W. 
Johnson & Co., aud it was under their vigorous, capable regime 



hotel of vast dimensions, its seven floor3 covering an area of 23.000 
square feet eacli, and there are 500 rooms for guests, adapted to 
every requirement, and many arranged en suite, meeting the 
wants 01 families and prominent guests. The utmost care and at- 
tention has been bestowed in their fitting up and furnisliing, and 
they offer the most comfortable accommodations In Boston. 'Ihe 
Quincy is conducted jointly on the American and European plan.s, 
and in either case tlie house offers substantial inducements not 
duplicated elsewhere. The cuisine of the Quincy is made the con- 
stant study of the most famous of caterers, while a French chef 
and experienced staff of assistants, meet the demands of the elabor- 
ate bills of fare for which this representative liouse isso renowned. 
In fact tlie great feature of this house is the table, whicli is unsur- 
passed by any first-class hotel on tlie continent. Every thing is on 
themost liberal scale and immense quantities of suppliesare used, 
the beef of tlie hotel for one year being $76,000, from $400 to $700 per 
week being spent for poultry, while eighteen to twenty-two bushels 




THE 

QUINCY. 

AMERICAN 

AND EUROPEAN 

PLANS. 

500 ROOMS. 

J. W. Jolinsou 6l Co. 



J. IV. Johnson. 



George G. Mann. 



th.at the Quincy began to make such rapid progress. Both proprie- 
tors were exceedingly popular, and both had mastered every detail 
of the modern art of hotel keeping. The lamented decease of Mr. 
Johnson occurred in 1886, since wiiich date, Mr. Mann as pro- 
prietor has effleiently carried on the business and run the hotel at 
the same high standard of excellence. The Quincy is a magnifi- 
cent specimen of architectural achievement, its solid and ornate 
stone front, rising to a height of seven stories, surmounted by an 
elegant buttressed clock tower, and having on one side, a series of 
beautiful bow windows capped by dome and flagstaff, which is 128 
feet six inches in length, and one solid piece. No pains orexpense 
have been spared in the fitting up of the interior. Every modern 
accessory of the decorator, the cabinet maker and the upholsterer 
have been utilized, and the house is a beautiful and artistic exhibit 
of the most advanced achievements in the above lines. Marble 
wainscots and stair-cases, mosaic tiled floors, frescoed ceilings, 
elaborately decorated walls and furniture in keeping, characterize 
the public apartments and corridors of the Quincy. It embraces 
every modern improvement, gas, electric light, safety passenger 
and freight elevators, which run day and night, and guests com- 
ing by late trains, at tliree and four o'clock in the morning, can 
take the elevator to the seventh story, electric bells, etc., 
being a few of the conveniences, while under one roof are 
gathered all the accessories to complete hotel life. In the 
basement is the engine room, a large steam laundry, barber 
shop fitted up at an expense of $20,000, and gents' toilet fitted 
up at an expense of $10,000, ceiling and walls of solid mirrors, 
and solid marble, no wood work except door and seat. On 
the main floor are the office, bar and cafe carrying the choic- 
est stock in Boston; billiard room, smoking room, etc. On 
the second floor are the magnificently furnished suits of par- 
lors, luxurious in their equipment, likewise handsome club- 
rooms. The spacious and attractive dining h.all Is on the first 
floor, with the finest restaurant in Boston attached. The Quincy is a 



of potatoes are used in a day. the potatoes being purchased by the 
car load of 3,000 bushels. Three tons of butter per month is used 
ifiid from 100 to 150 dozens of eggs per day. Twenty tuns of sugar 
is bought in one order and canned goods are bouglit by the car 
load, the house itself putting up POO bushels of pears forthe table 
each season. Flour is bought by the 600 barrels or carload, .and 
every thing else is done on the most magniHcent scale. All the 
preserves served here are home-made, a specialty being made of 
strawberry juice for ice cream, of wliich about 200 gallons is kept 
on hand in cold storage, (while most hotels use some artificial 
coloring to produce the same effect,) and which is a delicious fruit 
lor the table. All the beef used in the Quincy. is selected by Mr. 
Geo. G. Mann, who is one of the best judges of meat. This beef 
is put in cold storage from three to four weeks before being 
used, they having thirteen immense ice houses in the hotel, 
which takes from ten to tliirty tons of ice per day. Mr. Mann 
has made a life study of the cuisine, covering a period of over 
twenty-five years. The wines, liquors and cigars handled are of a 
superior quality, and in f.act everything connected witli the house 
is of the very best. Many notable dinners liave been held here in 
honor of the great men in every branch of public, literary or 
dramatic life, and the most celebrated statesmen, authors', .actors, 
members of the European aristocracy, clergy, etc., liave been and 
are now guests of the Quincy when in Boston. The registers con- 
tain thousands of the prominent names of the age, and under Mr. 
Mann's able management, the Quincy is, as never before enjoying 
a patronage of tlie most extensive and profitable character. Mr. 
Mann is noted for his superior executive methods and watchful 
attention to enforcing a thorough system of management, this 
hotel with upwards of 300 help and servants running smoothly and 
in perfect order, a fact often spoken of by parties stopping at tlie 
house, meeting the wants of the traveling public, and at rates 
which are extremely moderate, the unrivalled character of the 
accommodations being considered. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON 



JAMES GOODMAN & CO., Fire Insurance Agency, No. 46 Con- 
gress Srreet.— Tlie City or Boston is one of the principal cen- 
tres in tlie United Slates for lire insnrance. Tli is, all agree, 
can be secured only tlirongli tiie medium of well regulated, 
honestly conducted and sound fire Insurance companies ; those that 
not only i.ssue policies, butadjustand pay losses as soon as theyare 
stated and clearly shown, Many of the leading insurance corpora- 
tions place their interests in llie c<mtrol of gentlemen who have se- 
cured honorable reputations in this unportant branch of business. 
Prominent auKmg those in Boston, is the old established and relia- 
ble linn of Messrs. James Goodman & Co. This business was orig- 
inally established in 1848 by Kent A Parsons, who were succeeded 
by Kent & Goodman. Eventually, in 1872. on the death of Mr. 
Kent Mr. .James Goodman admitted his son, Mr. W. A. Goodman 
into partnership, the Arm being known by the style and title of 
James Goodinan & Co. The firm represents the following first-class 
and substantial companies, viz:— The Olens Falls, of Glens Falls 
N. Y.; Fire Insurance Company of the County of Philadelphia; 
Mercliants' and Farmers' Mutual, of Worcester, Mass., etc. As 
practical and experienced underwriters. Messrs. James Goodman & 
Co. are prepared to offer substantial inducements and advantages 
to patrons including low rates and liberally drawn policies, wlnle 
all losses sustained are equitably adjusted and promptly paid 
through their agency. They undertake tlie entire charge of the 
insurance of estates, stores, office blocks, dwellings, merchandise, 
and business firms, placing and distributing risks among solid, 
and reliable companies only, renewing policies when expired 
and generally relieving property owners and merchants of all care 
and trouble in this important respect. Mr. James Goodman has 
l)een a director of the Merchants' & Farmers' Mutual Insurance 
Company, of Worcester, since 1876. He was for many years special 
agent of the Merchants' Fire Insurance Company, and for three 
years was secretary of the Charter Oak Fire Insurance Company, 
of Hartford, Conn. He is a popular member of the Underwriters' 
Association of Boston, while his son, Mr. Wni. A. Goodman, is a 
member of the rate committee of the same association. Mr. James 
Goodman was born in Springfield, while Mr. W. A. Goodman is 
a native of New York. The former was for a period of three 
years connected with tlie city government as councilman, and dur- 
ing that time never was absent at a meeting, never failed to res- 
pond at roll call, and never left the meeting until adjournment. 

KENNETH IKVING, Flour and Mill Products, and .Millers' 
and Shippers' Agent, No. 214 State Street.— The activity 
and jirogress shown in the Boston flour and grain market 
is largely due to the enterprise and energy of our leading 
brokers and commission merchants. Prominent among this number 
is Mr. Kenneth Irving, flour bioker, millers' and shippers' agent, 
at No. 214 State Street. Mr. Irving established his business in 1884. 
He transacts a general brokerage and commission business and is 
especially well known in this market asagent for flour mills , and 
grain shippers in all parts of the west, north-west and New York 
State. He sells car-lots only and has developed a large and grow- 
ing trade in the city, and throughout the New England States, 
Muritime Provinces and Canada. He has eveiy facility for doing 
the business in the best manner possible, and his long experience 
with and knowledge of the wants of the buyers, makes him a most 
useful correspondent. Correspondence is desired and consign- 
ments are in all cases carefully and profitably handled, and 
promptly acknowledged. The influence of this house on the trade 
Is steadily on the increase, and those interested in establishing re- 
lations with it may depend on receivmg prompt and liberal tieat- 
ment, and other advantages difficult to be secured elsewhei-e. 
Mr. Irving, who is a native of Nova Scotia, has also had a long 
business experience in the west, the benefits of which to the cus- 
tomers who do busine.ss through him is manifested in many ways. 
He is an active member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, al- 
ways manifesting a deep interest in all measures conducive to the 
welfare of tliat important institution. 

FKANKUN S. PHELPS, Insurance Agent, No. .53 State Street, 
Kooni 4 Merchants Exchange.— At the present day the pro- 
tection afforded by the leading fire insurance companies, is 
without question one of the most potent influences in the de- 
velopment of trade and commerce. In this connection we desire to 



make special reference in this commercial review of Boston, to 
Mr. Franklin S. Phelps, state agent for Massachusetts for the Mu- 
tual Fire Insurance Co. of New York, and the Fire Association of 
New Y'ork, wliose offices are centrally located at No. 53 State 
Street. Mr. Phelps established this business in 1855, and has now a 
number of suburban and local agents under his control. The Mu- 
tual Fire Insurance Co. returns the entire profits of its business to 
policy holders in scrip, without liability to assessment. The scrip 
issued in 1883 was redeemed August 1st, 1888, at par with 6 per cent, 
accrued interest. The Fire Association of New York returns to 
policy holders SO per cent, of the proHts without liability to iisses.s- 
ment. In .addition to attending to liis insuiBnce business, Mr. 
Phelps deals in Georgia farm and real estate first mortgages, and 
has alw.ays completed loans on hand and for sale at his offices. The 
terrible shrinkage in nearly allkindsof securities,and theconst.ant 
and increasing failures of banks, and disasters to railroad and 
manufacturing companies, have justly created distrust, and care- 
ful, far-seeing capitalists of the north are now turning their atten- 
tion southward where reliable and safe investments in real estate 
loans can be m.ade at eight per cent, inteiest. Mr. Phelps is tli« 
Boston agent for Mr. C. P. N. Barker, of Atlanta, Georgia, who is 
not only a wealthy capitalist, but has given his attention for up- 
wards of a quarter of a century to real estate first mortgages. Mr. 
Phelps is highly esteemed in business circles for his promptness, 
ability and just methods, fully meeting the influential patronage 
secured in this growing and valuable enterprise. 

C FOSTER & SON, Provisions and Groceries, Meats, Produce 
and Fruits, Nos. 336 and 338 Atlantic Avenue, Head of 
, Howe's Wharf —An old est.ablished and excellent general 
provision and grocery store is that of C Foster & Son, 
located at Nos. 336 and 338 Atlantic Avenue, which for over tliirty- 
six years h.as maintained an enduring liold on public favor and pa- 
tronage. It is. in fact, one of tlie oldest and best known establish- 
ments of the kind in this part of the city, and has a very large and 
growing trade. Tills flourishing business was started in 18.52 by 
Christopher Foster, the present senior member, who conducted the 
same alone up to 1882, when he admitted into partnership his son, 
Henry W. Foster. The firm occupy a fine 25x100 foot store and 
basement. They were formerly located at Liverpool Wharf, where 
they were burned out in the big fire of 1872. They carry constantly 
on hand an extensive flrst-class stock, which comprises prime 
fresh beef, mutton, lamb, and pork, corned, salt and smoked meats 
of all kinds, lard and provisions, choice creamery butter, clieese 
and fresh eggs, fruits and vegetables of every variety, fine teas, 
coffees and spices, canned goods, dried fruit, best brands of west- 
ern flour, and everything comprehended in staple and fancy gro- 
ceries; yacht and family supplies being a specially. About fifteen 
in help aie employed, while several teams are in regular ser- 
vice supplying customers throughout Dorchester, Roxbury and 
all parts of the South End and Back Bay, and during the sum- 
mer months keep several teams running to Hull and Nanta.sket 
Beach. Orders by telephone (No. 1091) or otherwise receive imme- 
diate attention. 

GH. LLOY'D. Manufacturing Optician, No. 325 Washington 
Stieet.— There is probably no business requiring a 
greater degree of intelligence than that of the inanu 
facturing optician, and among those In Boston there are 
probably none more fully conversant therewith, than Mr. G. H. 
Lloyd who has devoted many years to perfecting himself with all 
th.at pertains to it. He commenced operations on his own ac- 
count in February last, and has since become well known to the 
medical profession and among oculists, and is doing a large, 
steadily growing business. His establishment at No. 325 Wa.sh- 
ington Street, is perfectly fitted up and is well equipped in 
every particular. Mr. Lloyd, who is an expert optician, manu- 
factures to order, complicated lenses and has all the latest im- 
provements in spectacles and eye-glasses, .and makes to order trial 
sets of glasses and has a general assortment of many designs in 
trial frames, and is a practical expert in adjusting gl.asses to suit 
the sight of the eye, and also inserts artificial eyes, and re- 
polishes old artificial eyes .and makes a fine display of all kinds 
of optical goods. Mr. G. H. Lloyd, is a native of Nova Scotia, 
and has lived in Boston many years. 



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THE BOSTON TAVERN, No. 347 Washington Street (Within), 
M. P. Kobinson and J. A Fitzsimnions, Proprietois.— In 
spealcing of the relative merits of New York and Boston 
hotels, their capacity, management and methods, it must 
now be stated, as an important and highly creditable fact, that 
Boston has far the most magnificent and luxurious gentlemen's 
hotel, there being nothing like it, either in Nevv York or any- 
where else on the continent. This splendid consummation of hos- 
pitable ide.as with practical business methods and marked ability 
of management is embodied in the already popular and deservedly 
fam 'US Boston Tivern, located at No. 347 Washington Street 
(within), which location furnishes quietness, although situated in 
the very business centre of the city, like the largest banking houses 
and hotels in London. Tliis hotel is the only one in Boston so 
located, and first threw open its doors on January 28th, 1889. 
It Is an important event to chronicle in Boston history, as on this 
historic site is reared one of the finest specimens of architecture in 
the city, .specially planned, arranged and designed throughout its 
imposing eight stories, as the model bachelor's hostelry of America. 
Work on the tavern was begun in September, 1887, the owner, 
deciding to erect here a structure that would fully meet the most 
advanced requirements of ttxe lessees, Mr. Marvin P. Robinson 
and Mr. James A. Fitzsimmons, both Boston hotel men of vast 
practical experience in the highest plane of the business. The 
building, which cost fully $250,000, is eight lofty stories in height. 
On the east it fionts on Ordway Place for 85 feet; tlie north side 
lias a frontage of 61 feet on Piovince Court, while the other sides 
have abundance of light and air, rendering it exceptionably 
desirable for guests. The area of floor space is about .5.000 square 
ieet; the exterior is of brick, with handsome Ohio freestone 
trimmings, and the height from curb to loof is 102 feet. The 
architect, Mr. Sanmel J. F. Thayer, in planning the Boston Tav- 
ern, made a special study to secure to every room wiiidows 
•opening into the outside air, and to insure the house being abso- 
lutely fireproof. He hiis succeeded admirably, and future hotel 
architects can profitably study the Boston Tavern in detail. The 
exterior of the first story is of iron columns filled in with brick, 
while above are thick vaulted walls of brick and freestone. The 
floors of the building are laid upon iron beams and terracotta 
arches, and .all interior partitions are of incombustible materials. 
The floors and walls, being vaulted and deadened, the rooms are 
practically sound-proof. The interior was planned in consonance 
with the suggestions of the lessees, who.se long practical experi- 
ence has rendered them recognized authorities. The office, cafe, 
bar and smoking rooms are situated on the giound floor, and are 
reached direct from the main entrance. The air of quiet elegance 
and refined taste that characterizes these apartments has no equal 
elsewhere in Boston. The walls are finished in light-tinted mar- 
ble; the wainscots and trimmings are of mahogany, whilelhe floors 
are paved with marble tiles to matcli the walls. In the smoking- 
room is hung Pope's mammoth oil painting, " The Calling of the 
Hounds," while in tlie cafe is one of Gallison's marine vieivs. The 
cafe comfortably seats 100 guests. The kitchen and serving rooms 
are close adjoining, and models in their line, thoroughly venti- 
lated, so that no odors reach other parts of the house. The mag- 
nificent banquet rooms are desirably situated on the second floor. 
They are the most advanced exponents of architectural skill and 
decorators' and furnishers' arts. The suite can be thrown intoone 
grand hall, luiving a seating capacity of over 150. There are 125 
elegantly furnished rooms tor guests, including many en suite, 
with toilet room and bath attached, while each floor has a separate 
bath-room and closets accessible from the corridors. Every mod- 
ern improvement known to science has been introduced here, 
including two safety passenger elev.ators, electric light, electric 
bells, steam heat, etc. The sanitary appliances are perfect, all 
pipes being thoroughly trapped and ventilating through the roof. 
This is the beau ideal home for gentlemen— Ihe most advanced of 
its kind in America— and which has become instantly popular with 
and patronized by the leading circles of male society. The cuisine 
is the most elaborate in Boston ; the culinary arrangements are 
perfect, being under the guidance of the distinguished chef, 
August Gris.setti. A thorough system of organization is enforced 
and the service of the Tavern is unrivalled. Mr. Marvin P. Rob- 
inson has iiad vast experience in the highest plane of hotel man- 
agement, and resigned the chief clerkship of the Hotel Brunswick 



to take the proprietorship with Mr. Fitzsimmons here. He w,as 
formerly connected with the Tremont and other first-class hotels, 
and is noted for the highest order of executive capacity and 
energy of character. Mr. James A. Fitzsimmons materi;illy con- 
tributed to the prosperity of the barker House during his thirty 
years experience therewith, having the advantages of a training 
under Mr. Harry D. Parker. He resigned from a responsible post 
in the St. James Hotel, New York, to join forces with Mr. Robin- 
son in conducting the Boston Tavern, and is specially qualified for 
the post. The proprietors have secured experienced and popul.ar 
assistants in Mr. S. B. Sabin, cashier, Mr. H. P. Doane, chief clerk, 
and Mr. C. W. Bickford, chief steward. This harmonious and tal- 
ented executive force insures the utmost degree of comfort to 
guests. Messrs. Robinson and Fitzsimmons have thoroughly m<as- 
tered the difficult art of modern hotel keeping. They are in Ihe 
front rank of the business, and have a certainty of achieving an 
international reputation. 

BRINE & NORCROSS' Reliable Stores, Hosiery, Gloves, Sniiill 
Wares, Etc., Nos. 17 and 18 Tremont Row, Nos.70aiid 7i Tre- 
mont Street, Nos. 1 and 3 Tremont Street and Nos. 660 and 
662 Washington Street.— A house that has been established 
tor ninety years must necessarily engage and attract more than 
ordinary attention from the compilers of this review of the com 
merce and industries of the city of Boston. Such an establishment 
is th.at of Messrs. Brine & Norcross, whose extensive haberdashery 
establishments are eligibly located. This widely-known and repre- 
sentative house was established in 1798, by J. Leach, in the 
old ScoUiiy Building (formerly located where the statue now 
stands), who w,as succeeded by J. Holmes Si Co. and 
John Harrington and William H. Brine under the style 
and title of John Harrington & Co. This firm carried on busi- 
ness with great success for twenty-two years, when Mr. Wil- 
liam H. Brine and J. Henry Norcross formed the present co- 
partnership. Mr. J. Henry Norcross had previously been a mem- 
ber of the firm of Lewis Coleman & Co., tor fifteen years. The 
stores are sp,acious and are elegantly equipped, and possess every 
convenience for the accommodation of the extensive and valuable 
stock, which has no superior in this country for quality, freshness, 
reliability and general excellence. Two hundred assistants, sales- 
ladies, etc., are employed in the various departments, and the stores 
are the favorite resorts of ladies of every class of society. The stock, 
which has been carefully selected, includes all kinds of liaberdash- 
ery goods, small wares, fancy goods, gloves, laces, tapes, piii.s, 
needles, thread, hosiery, jewelry, etc. The firm have brought into 
every-day practice a thoroughly efficient system of organization, 
which conduces greatly to the successful prosecution of this exten- 
sive business. The stock is alw.ays complete in every department, 
and is constantly renewed by fresh importations, and something 
new, beautiful and useful can always be found upon the shelves 
and counters, while the prices quoted in all cases are extremely 
moderate. Messrs. Brine and Norcross are both natives of Boston. 
They are very popuhar, socially and coinmerchally, and bear the 
highest of reputations .as business men and private citizens. 

1NGALLS, BROWN & CO., Leather, No. 137 Summer Street.— 
In referring to the business transacted in leather in Boston 
we have particul.ar occasion to note the house of Ingalls, 
Brown & Co. It was established in 1881. Mr. John B. In- 
galls, who has been identified with the trade tor more than eigh- 
teen years, and Mr. S. H. Brown, Jr., who has also had a long 
experience in the business, compose the firm. They are both 
natives of New England, and conduct their operations with that 
energy and careful attention, which has always distinguished 
them in their dealings and which have been the means of estab- 
lishing the prestige and reputation the house enjoys in commercial 
circles. They represent leading manufacturers of goat, kid and 
morocco of southern finish, and are well equipped for meeting the 
demands of the boot and shoe manufacturers, and control a large 
substantial permanent trade, widely diffused throughout New 
England. The business connections of the firm are first-class and 
the goods which tliey handle are superior in quality and very de- 
sir.able. The house will be found one of the best with which to 
form business relations, as the very lowest market prices are 
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YOUNG'S HOTEL, J. Reed Whipple, Esq., Proprietor; Court 
Square aud Court Street.— Boston has of recent years 
made rapid progress and notably so in the character ot 
her hotel accommodations. She is now, with the enlarged 
and maKniflcent Young's Hotel in her midst, fully the equal of 
New York with its famous old Fifth Avenue Hotel. For what that 
centre of social resort and of the best classes of the traveling 
public is to New York, Young's is to Boston. Young's Hotel has 
an interesting history. It was originally, and that was many 
years ago, known as Tafts Coffee House, and it was in 1845 that 
Mr. George Young succeeded to tlie proprietorship, renaming the 
establishment Y'oung's Hotel. It then entered upon a lengthy 
and prosperous career, noted for being a comfortable stopping 
place and its patronage at times taxing its limited capacity to the 
utmost. Eventually in 1S7G, Messrs. Hnll & Whipple succeeded to 
the proprietorship, the house then having but eighty-five rooms. 
The lirm were likewise the proprietors ot the Adams House and 
with the two establisliinents were doing a business of great mag- 
nitude. In 1884 they dissolved partnership, Mr. George H. Hall 
taking the Adams House, and Mr. J. Reed Whipple becoming sole 
proprietor of Young's. Mr. Whipple's regime has been one of 
exceptional ability and remarkably successful. He has made 
Young's, Boston's social pivot; we say this advisedly, for other 
places claim consideration, but an examination of the registers of 
Y'oung's Hotel and a knowledge of the famous clubs and promi- 
nent bodies that regularly dine aud meet here, it is manifest that 
this is the social sun round which the lesser social planets revolve. 
Since 1875, Mr. Whipple h.as been obliged to enlarge the hotel no 
less than four times. The alterations and extensions have been 
effected upon a liberal scale of space, and the bote' is big, broad 
and roomy every way. There are now 2.50 rooms, besides magnifl- 
cent and spacious dining halls, parlors, reading rooms, office, etc. 
The hotel comprises three connecting buildings, constructed of 
freestone, one fronting on Court Street and Court Square, and 
seven stories and basement in height, one on Court Avenue, five 
stories and basement in height, and opposite which are the new 
billiard room and bar, the finest and most elaborately fitted up in 
Boston. Young's Hotel is admirably pkanned and every portion is 
convenient of access. On the first floor are four of the largest 
sized dining rooms, three billiard parlors, etc. The decorations 
and outfit of the dining halls are most costly and elaborate, and 
harmonize with the rest of the artistic features of the house. The 
ladies' parlors and reception rooms, etc., are most richly furnished 
and everything is modern, stylish and in keeping with the most 
refined requirements. All the modern improvements have been 
introduced here, including two passenger elevators, steam heat, 
electric light, annunciators, repeating call bells, etc. There is a 
thorough system of organization enforced, and no less than 350 
employees are in attendance in the various departments. The 
service is perfect, and Mr. Whipple in this essential has no rival in 
the United States. The 250 rooms are all most comfortably and 
completely furnished, and many arranged en suite are elaborate 
in their appointments The house is conducted on the popular 
European plan, single rooms ranging from $1 to $8 per day, and 
double rooms or those en suite from $2 to $12 per day. The culi- 
nary department has received Mr. Whipple's special attention. 
He was determined to render the cuisine of Young's the finest 
in Boston and he has succeeded ; nowhere are such elaborate bills 
of fare served in such perfect form as here, the kitchens being in 
charge of a distinguished chef, and the dining rooms of a most 
eminent .steward. On an avei-age 2,500 persons dine here daily, 
and of the most critical classes, who all the more appreciate the 
excellence and liberality of the table. Among the many leading 
political and other clubs that dine here weekly or every other 
week are: the Massachusetts Club, New England Club, Norfolk 
Club, Middlesex Club, Essex Club, Paint and Oil Trade Club, etc. 
The registers contain the names of the most eminent politicians 
and professional men, from all over the country, and the reportor- 
ial errand is always first to Y'oung's corridors, where political and 
other happenings are first heard of. The executive staff of 
Young's Hotel is composed of the following gentlemen : Mr. W. H. 
La Pointe, chief clerk ;"Mr. C. F. Davy, book-keeper Mr. C. I. 
Lindsay, room clerk; Mr. H. H. Tirrell, cashier; Mr. CUaude M. 
Hart, book-keeper; Mr. F. E. Tibbets, room cashier; Mr. George 
H. Newton, cashier ; and Mr. Oscar F. Mercer, night clerk. They 



all bring to bear special qualifications for the discharge of their 
duties, and are deservedly popular. Mr. W H. La Pointe has 
been with the house for eighteen years. He has been h resident of 
Boston for twenty years past and for the last fourteen years has 
ably .and faithfully discharged the onerous duties devolving upon 
him as heiid clerk. A hotel man from his youth up, he is thor- 
oughly posted and ably supervises the running of this great estab- 
lishment. Things go smoothly, and every guest is under obliga- 
tions to Mr. La Pointe and his staff for favors rendered and courte- 
ous, prompt attention to every request. Y'oung's Hotel has an 
equipment that is perfect throughout. It is the leader in this 
field of enterprise, and under Mr Whipple's skilled proprietor- 
ship, has inaugurated a new era in the business. He w,as boi'n ia 
New Boston, N. H., and has had an experience in hotel manage- 
ment of twenty years duration, h.aving been steward in the Parker 
House for six years before becoming joint proprietor of Young's. 
He has made a thorough study of the difficult and complex art of 
modern hotel keeping, and that he has solved every problem s.atis- 
factorily is fully borne out by the marked popularity of Young's 
under his Individual guidance. He resides in his own house on 
Commonwealth Avenue, and like any other business man, devotes 
his full day to the personal direction of this magnificent hostlery. 

CA. CAMPBELL & CO, Coal, No. .59 Congress Street.— The 
commercial interests of Boston are intimately connected 
, with the coal trade, in which not only is large capital In- 
vested, but likewise the energy and enterprise of many of 
our influential citizens. Prominent among the number is the old 
established and representative firm of Messrs. C. A. Campbell & 
Co., whose offices are locatei at No. 59 Congress Street. This busi- 
ness was established twenty-eight years ago by Mr. Campbell, whO' 
possesses an intimate knowledge of the wants of the wholesale and 
retail trade of Boston and the adjacent cities. The yards and 
wharf are situated at Chelsea, Mass. Messrs. Campbell & Co. 
deals largely In anthracite and bituminous coal and wood. Tliey 
promptly coal steamships from barges, and likewise have a num- 
ber of first-class barges for lighterage purposes. Orders by mail or 
telegraph receive immediate attention, and dealers and manufac- 
turers can be promptly supplied with any quantity from a boat 
load to any smaller lot .at the lowest ruling market prices. They 
deal largely in the finest grades of anthracite, and employ in their 
yards a large number of workmen. Pine, oak and hickory wood 
are also sold by the load or cord, sawed and split to order in any 
size, and delivered to any part of the city. Mr. Campbell is a pop- 
ular member of the Boston Coal Exchange. Having thus briefly 
sketched the facilities of this house, it only remains to be added, 
that its business has ever been conducted on the sound principles 
of equity, and relations once entered into with it are sure to be- 
come not only pleasant but profitable and permanent. 

A FOX & CO., Manufacturers ot Cloth Hats and Caps, No. 
8fi Bedford Street —For enterprise, maiked skill and 
strictly honorable methods, no house has more speedily 
and permanently .attained a position of prominence and 
popularity than Messrs. A. Fox & Co., the widely-known manufac- 
turers of cloth hats and caps. The business was founded in 188'i 
by Messrs. A. and B. Fox, gentlemen of a wide range of practical 
experience in this line, and who early developed influential con- 
nections with a trade of great magnitude. They have their factory 
and salesroom centrally located at No. 86 Bedford Street, and where 
they employ upwards of twenty-five skilled hands in the manufac- 
ture of all styles and descriptions of cloth hats and caps. Their spe- 
cialty is children's goods, and in this line the trade recognizes them 
to be the leaders, whose methods and policy insure perfection in 
cut, workmanship and finish, and who ever maintain the highest 
standard of excellence. From their large and comprehensive 
stock the most critical trade buyers can be suited, and they are 
doing the largest business of any concern in New England in 
children's goods. Messrs. Fox have been permanent residents 
of Boston for the past eight years, and have ever retained the 
confidence of leading commercial circles. They exercise sound 
judgment in the selection of materials, and give close personal 
supervision over all the processes of manufacture, insuring to 
their patrons the best goods at the lowest prices, and who caa 
promptly fill the largest orders in any special line. 



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STCRTEVANT MILL CO., Manufacturers of the Stiirtevant 
Mill, for Crushing and Pulverizing Ores, Phosphates, Etc., 
E. 0. Huxley, President, No. 89 M.ason Building.— This relia 
ble company are the proprietors and sole manufacturers of 
the famous Sturtevant Mill, which is absolutely unrivalled in the 
United States or Europe, for crushing and grinding ores, phos- 
phates, cement, and all other bard and refractory materials. The 
Sturtevant Mill Company was duly incorporated in 1882, under the 
Laws of Maine, with a paid-up capital of $300,000, and since its or- 
ganization has secured aliberal and influential patronage not only 
in the United States and Canada, but also in Me,\ico, Central and 
South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The 
chief executive oHicers of the company, are E C. Huxley, president 



pies a space of three by ten feet. Receives of some kinds of 
rock, pieces three inches to five inches through; but for the 
harder rocks working best to the size of not above four inches 
square. Speed, 1,200 revolutions. Power, about forty horse 
power. Twentyinch Heads will crush and grind from two to 
twenty tons per hour, according to the fineness, and is equal in 
capacity to a seventy-stamp mill upon the same work. Weight 
about nine tons. Occupies a sp.ace four feet by fourteen feet, and 
is five and one-half feet in height. Tliis mill is truly a giant 
grinder. Receives rock from four to eight inches through, 
but works best on the harder rocks that are not over four 
inches. Speed, 900 revolutions. Power, about eighty horse- 
jHintr. TiR'se machines are now in operation upon a large scale. 




and manager, and W. H. Ellis, treasurer. The Boston office is 
situated at No. 89 Mason Building. The Sturtevant mill develops 
an entirely new principle, avoiding the usual wear and tear of 
machinery, and accomplishing in a much more rapid and thorough 
manner the work of a crusher and stamp mill combined. The 
above illustration gives a view of the machine as it appears in 
opei'ation: the material to be ground is conveyed through the hop- 
per at the top to the case A, filling the ease and tlie revolving 
cylinders or heads B, B, which, being put in motion, hurl their con- 
tents againts each otiier with sucli power thalf the rock is at once 
crushed to atoms. The mill does not grind the materials, but 
simply furnislies the power that compels the rocks to crush them- 
selves; consequently, the hardness of the rock does not affect the 
result, as it acts upon itself. The Sturtevant mills are made in 
three sizes, with heads from eight to twenty inches in diameterand 
vary in capacity according to size. A mill with eight-inch 
heads will grind from four hundred to two thousand pounds 
per hour, according to the fineness. Weight about eighteen hun- 
dred pounds, and can be bolted directly to a well-supported floor. 
Occupies a space three by eight feet, and is built for very heavy work. 
Will do all that a ten-stamp mill will do upon the same material. 
Speed, 180O revolutions per minute. Power, about twenty horse- 
power. A mill with twelve-inch heads will crush and grind from 
one to eight tons per hour, and is equal to a thirty-stamp battery 
doing the same class of work. Weighs about three tons. Occu- 



ilouig \aiious foims of gnnding, and can be seen at any time at 
woik upon the most difticult material,— ores, mattes, phosphates 
and cements. It will gne the ofticers much pleasure to show these 
mills to those who would like to see them at their everyday work. 
The mill has been put to the severest tests. At the Catasauqua 
Cement Company's Works near Allentown, Pa., in December last, 
two tons of wet quai'tz rock were pulverized in the short space of 
four minutes, a test that was regarded as one of the severest to 
which the mill could be put. The ease with which it did the work 
and the fineness to which it reduced the material fairly amazed all 
who witnessed the test. Still later six and and a half tons of iron 
ore were sent to the cement mill for the purpose of testing the 
crushing quality of the Sturtevant mill. The rock was of extraor- 
dinary hardness and there were those who doubted the ability of 
the mill to grind it. Finer screens had to be put in the mill for this 
puipose and when this was done the machinery was started. The 
rock was shoveled in and in thirteen minutes the ore was ground 
and deposited on the second floor of the building, with none ef the 
pieces larger than corn and two-thirds of it as fine as sand and 
finer. The test far exceeded in its results the anticipations of 
most of those present and won for the Sturtevant mill the most un- 
qualified praise. Three-quarters of an hour after the test the mill 
wiis again fixed for grinding cement and ground it at the rate of 
eighty barrels per hour. All who witnessed the workings of the 
mill went away satisfied that it is capable of doing all that is 



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claimed tor it. Tlic Sturtev.ant mills are no toy machines that 
wear out after a few weeks' run, but giant grinders of uiiparralleled 
capacity, whether grinding coarse or fine, wliile one of their clilef 
merits is the slight wear, wliicli is reduced to aniinimuin,aiidtlielr 
simplicity renders them sate from damage in tlie hands of a com- 
mon meclianic. The mills are most highly endorsed by many 
prominent manufacturers, wlio have forwaided testimonial.': of the 
higliest cliaracter, and state that after using four years they are in 
as good condition practically as wlien first erected. All orders for 
these splendid mills are promptly tilled at extremely low prices, 
while entire satisfaction is guaranteed in every particular. 

WM. DEERING & CO., Grain and Grass-Cutting Machinery, 
Cliicago, III.; F. C. Piers, General Agent for New Eng- 
land, No. 80 South Market Street.— In surveying the wide 
field of manufacturers, in tlie line of agricultural imple- 
ments, grain and gr.ass-cutting machinery stand pre-eminent in 
Importance and utility. The largest and best known manufactory 
in tins branch of industry m the United States is tii.at of Messr.s. 
Wiiliam.Deering & Co., of Cliicago, 111., who are represented in 
Boston by Mr. F. C. Piers, the General Agent for New England. 
Tills agency has its oftlce and sample room at Nos. 80 South Market 
Street, and 71 Clinton Street, and was est.ablished in January 
1887. Mr. Piers, the general agent, has been connected with the 
house for the past ten years, and is thoroughly conversant with 
all the details of the business and the requirements of the 
trade. He occupies spacious quarters with the Atlas Ware- 
house and Storage Company, carrying a large and complete 
line of Win. Deering & Co.'s machines, besides a stock of repairs 
valued at $65,000, operating thirteen transfer houses through, 
out New England and having three hundred and si.\ty local 
agents in the same territory. The reputation of the Deering 
grain and grass-cutting machinery is world wide ; the competition 
among manufacturers of tills class of machinery has been and 
still Is very great, stimulating inventions, until more than three 
thousand patents have been granted in this country that pertain 
to this line alone. The Deering interest, however, moves steadily 
on, lengthening and strengthening its stakes, enlarging its commer- 
cial relations, increasing its capacities and tiicilities, and expand- 
ing its fame and popularity with coming generation.'^, undisturbed 
by competition, sliining only the brighter by comparison or con- 
trast. It has now but tew competitors in the land, and is abso- 
lutely without a peer. Six thousand people are employed in the 
business, and wherever tlie Deering machinery is introduced, 
their claim as to its superiority over that manufactured by other 
concerns, as well as the reputation of the manufacturers, is con- 
stantly extended and confirmed Mr Piers opened the Boston 
house in January, 1887; previous to that time no sales had been 
made by William Deering & Co. in New England. During 1887 
six hundred and eighty two machines were sold by Mr. Piers and 
his agents, followed in 1S88 by over three thousand five hundred 
sales. This is the best possible proof of the superiority of the 
Deering machines wlien brought into competition with old-estab- 
lished manufacturers who have had the control of this great agri- 
cultural territory without serious opposition for many years. Mr. 
Piers is prepared to oiler inducements to agriculturists and dealers 
as regards terms and quality, which challenge competition, and 
necessarily command the attention of careful buyers. His house 
in this city possesses unsurpassed facilities for filling all orders 
promptly, and attending to the wants of patrons with the greatest 
care and foretliought. Mr. Piers has gained the respect and con- 
fidence of a large circle of friends and patrons throughout New 
England during the past two years, and is certainly tlie right man 
in the right place. 

ADAMS, TAYLOR & CO., Foreign Commission and Wine Im- 
po.-ting Mercliants, No. 105 State Street.— The importance 
of using only the purest and best brands of wines and 
liquors is generally recognized, and the retail trade and 
druggists v/hich keep the superior grades of these goods are the 
ones to retain and build up the heaviest trade in their section. The 
oldest and leading house engaged in the wholesale branch of this 
trade in Boston is that of Messrs. Adams, Taylor & Co., located at 
No. 105 State Street. This firm are widely and deservedly promi- 
nent as foreign commission and wine-importing merchants, and 



have become justly celebrated for their able and honorable busi- 
ness policy. Tlie business was founded by Messrs. Foster & Tay- 
lor in 18.^9, the present firm succeeding to the control in 1871. The 
business premises comprise four floors, 25x100 feet each, fully sup- 
plied with every modern convenience for liandliiig and storing the 
goods, and giving abundant opportunity for meeting the most ex- 
tensive demand. Tliis firm are manufacturers' agents for Blue 
Grass, Royal and G. O. Blake's Bourbon County Kentucky Whis- 
kies, which are accounted among the purest and smoothest whis- 
kies made. They are guaranteed of tlie finest grade, and are 
strongly recommended by the medical profession for the use of 
invalids and comsumptives. A leading specialty is also made of 
Honeysuckle Gin, and cased goods of all kindsare largely handled. 
They import their fine wines and foreign liquors djrect from the 
most famous European houses, and sell their whiskies free or in 
bond. They supply a large, first-class and permanent trade 
throughout New England, both with old ryeand Bourbon whiskies, 
old gins and brandies, they specially import champagnes, clarets, 
ports and sherries, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Moselle and Madeira 
wines, and offer substantial inducements to customers as regards 
both reliability of goods and liber.xlity of terms and prices. The 
house is represented on the ro,ad by a corps of talented salesmen, 
and orders of any magnitude are promptly and satisfactorily 
filled in all cases. The members of this responsible firm are 
Messrs. Luther Adams, George W. Taylor and C. A. Barney. Mr. 
Adams is a native of New Hampshire, and a prominent citizen o£ 
the suburban town of Brighton. Mr. Taylor is a native Bostonian, 
as is also Mr. Barney. All are members of the Massachusetts 
Liquor Dealers' Association, the National Liquor Dealer' Associa- 
tion and are greatly esteemed in social, financial and trade circles 
for their ability. Integrity and personal worth. 

HENRY ATKINS & CO., Wine Merchants, Nos. Sand 9 South 
Market Street.— The wholesale house of Messrs. Henry 
Atkins & Co., at Nos. 8 and 9 South Market Street, has long 
been recognized by first-class dealers and critical buyers 
as headquarters for the highest grades of pure wines and liquors- 
Hundreds of purchasers throughout the United States have long 
ago discovered that the choicest champagne, ports and sherries 
can only be obtained through this firm's direct importations. The 
business of tills old and honored house was founded in 1819, by 
Mr. Henry Atkins, whose lamented demise occurred in the year 
'70. He was succeeded by his two sons. Messrs. Henry H. and John 
E. Atkins, the former of whom died in May, 1888, leaving Mr. John 
E. Atkins sole proprietor. He has been connected with the house 
for the past thirty-five years, and brings to bear the widest range 
of practical experience, coupled with amjile resources and direct; 
influential connections both at home and abroad. As wholesale 
wine merchants, imiiorters of foreign wines and spirits, and agents 
for Pommery &. Greno champagne and other choice vintages, this 
house is justly famed and deservedly popular. Thebuildingoccu- 
pied for trade purposes contains four floors and a basement, 25x60 
feet in dimensions, admirably equipped for the stonige and preser- 
vation of the choice and valuable stock. The house are agents and 
importers of Pommery & Greno champagne, dog's head bottling 
of Bass' English ale and Guinness' Doublin Stout, HenkeiiJt Co.'s 
Rhine wines, Yriarte sherries, clarets, Sauternes and Burgundies, 
Hennessy's Cognac brandies, the original pine apple and wreath 
gins, Scotch and Irish whiskies, London dock, Jamaica rum, 
Phillippe & Cana^id's sardines, etc.; and also have in stock 
and in bond the choicest old Bourbon and rye whiskies. 
Every taste of the connoisseur and lover of fine wines and every 
requirement of a first-class trade can here be met on the spot. We 
would recommend dealers and critical buyers to sample some of 
the leading specialties of this house, as they positively are not to 
be duplicated elsewhere. As authorized agents and extensive im- 
porters, this house handles superb vintages of dry, fragrant wines, 
all the standard goods in fine old Scotch and Irish whiskies, and 
fine flavored Bourbon and rye, and are in a position to supply club 
and prviate cellars with speciallyselected wines and liquors of un- 
exampled purity and excellence, while they have developed im- 
portant wholesale connections tliroughout the country that are 
very creditable to the energy and intelligence of the management 
Mr. Atkins is a native of Boston, highly regarded in mercantile 
and trade circles, and prominent and popular in social life. 



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THE NEW ENGLAND WESTON ELECTRIC LIGHT COM- 
PANV, U. S. System, Moses Williams, President, Andrew 
Kobeson, Treasurer, No. 18 Post Office Square.— At tlie pres- 
ent day it is evident that tlie electric light has come to stay. 
The dynamos of the best systems give now over ninety per cent, 
of efficiency, while the steam engine has only reachetl Iifteen per 
cent. It is cheaper than gas, where any large number of electric 
lights are used for any length of time, moreover it gives a better, 
steadier light, securing also pure air with no heat. In connection 
with these remarks, special attention is directe'i in this mercan- 
tile review of Boston, to the reliable and successful New England 
Weston Electric Light Company, whose cilices are located at No. 
IS Post Office Square. This company was duly incorporated 
under the laws of Connecticut, in 1880, with a paid up capital of 
$1,000,000, and since its organization at that date, has secured a 
liberal and influential patronage in all sections of New England. 
The chief e.\ecutive officers of the company are, Moses Williams, 
president, Andrew Robeson, treasurer, and J. H. Alley, secretary. 
The New England Weston Electric Light Company contracts 
for and supplies the following four complete systems: U. S. In- 
candescent System for isolated plants; U.S.Long Distance Sys- 
tem for incandescent lighting of streets and stores from central 
stations ; U. S. Alternating Current System for general distribu- 
tion of incandescent lights over wide areas; U.S. Arc System 
for arc lighting, either from central stations or isolated , "plants. 
The electric lights produced by the apparatus of this popular 
compaiij are soft and pleasant to the sight, and are unrivalled for 
economy, utility and reliability. More than 30.0 U. S. incandes- 
cent lights are used in textile mills alone; among them are 
the following: P.aciflc Mills, cotton, Lawrence, Mass., 2,500; 
Patterson Mills, cotton, Chester, Pa., 600; Merrimack Manufactur- 
ing Company, cotton, Lowell, Mass., 1,350; Boott Mills, cotton, 
Lowell, Mass., 1,250; Boston Manufacturing Company, cotton, 
Waltham, Mass., 700; Manville Manufacturing Company, cotton, 
Manville, R. I., 1,200; Globe Mills, cotton, Woonsocket, R. I., 600; 
Nourse Mills, cotton. Woonsocket. B. I., 600; Shenandoah Cotton 
Company, cotton, Utica, N. Y., 400; D. Trainer & Sons, cotton, 
Trainer.Pa., 40U; John Dallas & Sons, cotton, Philadelphia, Pa., 357; 
Thomas M. Holt, cotton. Haw Rivei-, N. C, 350; Natchez Cotton 
Company, cotton, Natchez, Miss., 250; Nashville Cotton Company, 
cotton. Nashville, Tenn., 250; Hanover Manufacturing Company, 
cotton, Hanover, 111.. 250; W.ashington Mills, woollens, Lawrence, 
Mass., 600; Lippitt Woollen Company, woollens, Woonsocket, R. I., 
600; Alex. Smith & Sons, carpets, Yonkers, N. Y., 200; Lowell Man- 
ufacturing Company, carpets, Lowell, Mass., 1,350; Root Manufac- 
turing Company, knitting, Cohoes, N. Y., 400; Luckemeyer & 
Shefer, silk. Union Hill. N. J., 400; Lipps & Sutton, silk, S. Bethle- 
hem, Pa., 250; Nightingale Bros., silk, P.atterson, N. J., 60O; Fol- 
well Bros. & Co., worsteds, Philadelphia, Pa., 600; B.L.Solomons 
& Sons, Philadelphia, P,a., 375; Dartmouth Spinning Comiiany, 
Augusta, Ga., 200; Allentown Spinning Company, Allentowii, 
?a., 250 lights; also The Equitable Building, N. Y., 8,000; 
The Equitable Building, Boston, 1.000; Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital, Boston, 586; Capital at Albany, N. Y. ; All the 
U. S. Postofflces lighted but two, Boston and N. O. ; U. S. S. S, 
Atlanta; Pennsylvania Railroad System. Tlie electric car fitted 
up by this company and run on the West End Street Railway with 
storage batteries has been a complete success, the batteries after 
eighteen months use being perfect, and the economy of this motive 
system is beyond question. The patents covering this unsurpassed 
system will be issued shortly, when the company will be ready to 
contract for cars. The New England Weston Electric Light Com- 
pany promptly fills orders for plants for incandescent or arc 
lights according to the U. S. System, while the prices quoted tor 
all kinds of its apparatus are as low as those of any other contem- 
porary corporation. A large amount of work has already been 
executed by this responsible company to the entire satisfaction of 
patrons, and its prospects in the near future are of the most en- 
couraging cliaracter. 

INTERNATIONAL TRUST COMPANY", John M. Graham, Presi- 
dent, No. 45 Milk Street.— This representative Trust Comp.iny 
was duly incorporated in 1879 under the laws of Massachu- 
setts, and since its organization has obtained a liberal and 
lufluenti.al patronage. It is ably oflicered, and its executive 



committee and board of directors are composed of gentlemen, 
who are highly regarded in financial circles for their prudence, 
ability and just methods. The list is as follows: John M. Gra- 
ham, president ; Henry L. Jewett, secretary. Directors :— William 
Claflin, Robert M. Morse, Jr., William A. Haskell, John C. Paige, 
William T. Parker, William W. Crapo, John Goldthwait, P,atrick 
A. Collins. John A. Collins, John M. Graham, Thouuas F. Temple, 
Warren B. Potter. The paid up capital of the company is 
$500,000, which has been further augmented by a surplus ot 
$400,000. By the provisions of tlie charter the company's stock- 
holders are liable for an additional amount equal to the capital 
stock. This reliable company is authorized to accept and execute 
trusts under any will or instrument creating a trust, and to take 
care and management of property and estates. Trust funds are 
kept separate and distinct from the general business of the com- 
pany. The International Trust Company transacts a general 
banking business, discounts commercial paper, receives deposits 
subject to check, buys and sells foreign exchange and makes col- 
lections on all points throughout the United States and Canada 
upon favorable terms. It likewise draws its own bil's of Sterling 
Exchange on the London and Westminster Bank (limited), Lon- 
don, England, in amounts to suit customers, and also makes cable 
transfers. The company, moreover, acts as register, transfer 
agent and trustees under mortgage of railroad and other corpora- 
tions. Interest is allowed on deposits subject to check, and spec- 
ial rates when p.ayable at specified dates. All the checks on this 
company are received through the Boston Clearing House. The 
following statement of the affairs of the Internatiimal Trust Com- 
pany of Boston, to the Commissioners of Banks in Mass.acliusetts, 
October 31st, 18&8, shows its condition to be most substantial and 
flourishing: Assets— Demand loans, $339,192.34; Time loans, $1,- 
792,560.44; Time loans to corporations in New England, $963,300.00; 
United States bonds, $125,000.00; Municipal and other bonds, $57,- 
917.50; Railro,ad bonds and stocks, $454,706.80; Municipal and other 
securities (special trusts). $375,150.00; Sinking fund bonds (special 
trust), $30,500.00; Trust funds, $21,80.^.60; Expenses, $9,504.85; Cash 
on baud and in b.inks, $560,753.46; Total, $5,280,-390.97. Liabilities 
—Capital Stock, $500.000.0O; Surplus fund, 8350,000.00; Undivided 
profits, $118.7dS.41; Deposits subject to check, $3,726,188.70; Cer- 
tificates of deposit. $124,485.17 ; Trust deposits, $396.956.60 ; Deiiosits 
forcoupons, $24,256.32: Sinking funds for corporations, $39,466.79 ; 
Dividends unpaid, $i70.00; Total, $5,2.80,390.99. In conclusion we 
would observe, that tlie International Trust Company, througli an 
honorable and conservative course has secured a leading position 
among the solid and responsible institutions of the United States, 
and fully merits the entire confidence ot the community. 

THOMAS TODD, Printer, No. 1 Somerset Street.— The industry 
of the printer in these modern days of enterprise, is ot the 
utmost importance. Not only do our educational institu- 
tions depend upon the printing press, but commerce would 
loose one of her most powerful allies were printing to be sud- 
denly lost to US; the newspaper, that univers.al educator and 
friend, would be unknown, and civilization would sink back into 
the condition from which she was raised at the end of the dark 
ages. There are but tew industries, which have no need ot the 
printing press, and in the great and flourishing city ot Boston, 
those who are engaged in this valuable business have an amplo 
field before them. One of the most popular and reliable printers 
in the city is Mr. Tliomas Todd, whose office is located at No. I 
Somerset Street. This business was established twenty-two years 
ago by Mr. Todd, who has since built up a liberal and influential 
patronage in New England, New York and the middle states. He 
employs thirty expert printers, etc., and his establishment is 
tully equipped with latest improved printing presses, and all 
material necessary tor turning out work in the best possible man- 
ner. All kinds ot book, commercial printing and job work are 
done here at the lowest cash prices, and satisfaction is guaran- 
teed in every particular. Mr. Todd was born in Portland, Maine, 
and now resides at Concord, Mass. He is highly regarded in trade 
circles tor his energy and just methods, fully meriting the Mgnal 
success secured in this valuable business. His skill in printing is 
unsurpassed and is quite equal to anything at home or abroad, 
and being practical in every department of the art, he has 
obtained an enviable reputation for the artistic meritsot his work. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO.,WIiolesaie Grocers, Kos. 5 and 7 Com- 
mercial and 8 Commerce Streets.— Representative among 
the largest and most reliable establishments in the city of 
Boston, is tliat of Messrs. John A. Andrews & Co., importers 
and wholesale grocers, whose ofBces and salesrooTiis are centrally 
located on Commercial and Commerce Streets. This business was 
established in 18G5 by Wadley, Nourse <i Raymond, who were suc- 
ceeded by Wadley, Jones & Co., Wadley, Andrews & Co., and An- 
drews, Barlcer & Co. Eventually, in April, 1888, the present firm 
was organized under the style and title of John A. Andrews & Co., 
the copartners being Messrs. John A. Andrews, Wm. Y. Wadleigh, 
B. F. BuUard and William A. Dole. The premises occupied are 
the best located and most convenient for the business in the city 
and comprise a superior seven-story building 2.5x100 feet in area, 
with a wing 25x75 feet in dimensions. Tiie stocli carried is essen- 
tially representative of the choicest food products, staple and 
fancy groceries and sundries from every quarter of the globe. A 
specialty is made of teas, coffees and molasses, wliich cannot be 
excelled anywhere, either as regards prices or quality. In such 
staples as canned goods, sugars, syrups, spices, farinaceous goods, 
soaps, tobacco and cigars the llrm is prepared to offer substantial 
inducements to the trade, while all goods are guaranteed to be ex- 
actly as represented. In the best selected foreign and domestic 
dried fruits, condiments, sauces, pickles, and full lines of fancy gro- 
ceries,their stock challenges comparison witli any in tlie country for 
purity ,quality and general excellence. The firm employ about fifty 
clerks, assistants, etc., and numerous traveling salesmen. Their 
trade extends througliout all sections of New England, ana tlie 
Eastern and ^[iddle States. The partners are popular members of 
the Board of Trade and Wholesale Grocers Association, and are 
highly regarded in trade circles for their promptness, business 
ability and integrity, justly meriting the signal success achieved 
in this growing and important enterprise. 

METROPOLIS LAND COMPANY OF BOSTON, No. 7 E.x- 
change Place, Henry W. Moulton, President.— The rapid 
development of the real estate market of Boston and the 
steadily enhancing values of choice property render the 
financial interests involved of paramount importance. No form of 
investment has latterly become so popular with the conservative 
public as judiciously selected real estate, for not only in improved 
realty is a permanent source of income assured, but there is like- 
wise a reasonable certainty of a prospective increase in value. In 
this connection we desire to make a special reference to tlie Me- 
tropolis Land Company of Boston, whose offices are located at No. 
7 Exchange Place. This business was established in 1868 by Mr. 
Henry W. Moulton, who conducted It till 1886. when the present 
company was duly organized under the laws of Massachusetts and 
succeededto the management. The capital of the company is 
$.'>0,000 in shares of $100 each. The following gentlemen, who are 
v/idely and favorably known in financial circles for their pru- 
dence, sound business principles and integrity, are the trustees, 
etc.: George D. Wildes, Henry W. Moulton, president; Charles N. 
Goodrich, Charles J. Patch, Alexander Beal and Frederick W. 
Marston. This company owns tliirty-five lots in the city of Boston. 
Tliese lots are in the Back Bay District, near the Huntington en- 
trance to the Park, .ind are rapidly increasing in value. Hotels 
and stores of high character are being built upon adjoining lots. 
Also, very large tracts of land in New Hampshire, Vermont and 
New York State, for development into summer village? or water- 
ing places, and large tracts of choice land in Florida and Texas, 
for development into delightful winter homes. No shares of this 
company can be bought in open market. Only one or two shares 
at the most are allowed to any one person : .md it is desired that 
the subscriber be young and active to be eligible to membership. 
I The actual property of the company is far beyond its nominal capi 
tal of $50,000, and $100. the par value of shares. Is below the real 
value. Anyone desiring to become a participant in the profits and 
operations of the company, must be known to the company, and be 
willing to actively promote its interests, as it contemplates exten- 
sive purchases and sales. Mr. Henry W. Moulton. the president, 
has an excellent reputation as an expert upon the present and 
prospective values of city and country property, and has often 
been called on to act officially as an appraiser of all descrip- 
tions of realty. His valuations have ever been borne out by subse- 



quent sales, and his Just methods have gained for him the confi- 
dence and esteem of the entire community. Mr. Moulton is ilie pro- 
prietor of Moulton Hill, generally known as "Moulton Castle," 
Newburyport, Mass., where tlie Moulton family has resided for 
over 200 years. He is the founder and owner of that part of New- 
buryport called Moultonville. He is a member of the Genealogi- 
cal Society and various other institutions, both civil and military, 
and is one of Boston's public-spirited citizens, having laid out, and 
given to IBoston, three public streets, and made many other real 
estate improvements. During the war he commanded a battalion 
of troops, under a commission from Governor Andrew, through the 
Antietam campaign, when he was promoted by President Lincoln, 
and appointed by him, and by liis order commissioned by Secretary 
of War Stanton, to a high position in the War Department. At the 
close of the war, after serving in the Massachusetts Legislature, 
and having the confidence of General Grant, who knew every 
military man s record, he was appointed by him a marshal of the 
United States, and commissioned by and with the unanimous con- 
sent of the Senate. He discharged the duties of all these positions, 
with honor and credit to himself, and to those who entrusted him 
with power. 

SULLIVAN CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINTNG COMPANY, G. E. 
Yarrington, President; G. W McKinney Vice-President; C. 
M. Sprague, Treasurer; Offices: No. 27 Doane Street.— There 
is no .section of the mineral regions of the United .States 
where such favorable prospects and results attend the operations 
of the goldminesasinthe famous Black Hi lis of Dakota. Immense 
fortunes have already been made In this region and with skilled 
guidance and sufficient capital to introduce improved madiinery, 
and properly develop the best properties so as to secure abundance 
of rich ores, the prospects are most favorable to investors. One of 
the most able and conservatively conducted corporations engaged 
in mining m the Black Hills, is the Sullivan Consolidated Gold 
Mining Co., with main office at No. 27 Doane Street, in this city. 
The Sullivan Mining Company was formed in 1887 to develop certain 
valuable claims on Castle Creek, Lookout, Pennington County, 
Dakota, and in September, 1888, its properties, with others adjoin- 
ing, were consolidated as the property of tlie present company, and 
whose capital of J600,000 has been rapidly taken by prominent 
capitalists and investors of Now England. The following are the 
company s directors Messrs G E. Yarrington. G W. McKinney, 
C. M Sprague, Nathan P. Kidder, F. J. Ayer. .1. T. Hooper, Herbert 
L. Peck. They are all representative and responsible business men 
of Boston and New York, and whose names are synonymous with 
integrity and stability. The comp.anys officers are. Messrs G. E. 
Yarrington. president; G. W. McKinney, vice-president; CM. 
Sprague, treasurer, and Nathan P. Kidder, clerk. Mr. Yarrington 
Is very widely and favorably known in leading railroad circles and 
is a resident of New York, Mr. McKinney is a respected and influ- 
ential citizen of Lynn, while Mr. Sprague is a resident of Boston 
and is a business man of marked executive ability, and who faith- 
fully discharges the onerous duties devolving upon him. Mr. F. J. 
Ayer, is the company's superintendent, and Is a mining expert of 
wide experience and fully conversant with Black Hill ores and 
their treatment The company owns the following mines Sulli- 
van, Beaver, Elgin, Volunteer, Almont, Aster, Hoosac, Tariff, Rev 
enue and Eclipse, covering 101 acres and forty acres beside of gold 
places and claims, notably rich in gold The company has had Mr. 
Gilbert E. Bailey E. M., Ph. D., late geologist of Wyoming terri 
tory. and a practical authority on the Black Hills gold and tin de- 
posits, make a careful examination of its properties and he reports 
that they give a greater number and larger grains of gold 
to the i>au than any other mine in the Lookout District. This is 
saying a great deal and with the efficient management of the com- 
pany insures a very large return on its capital. The company is 
erecting a fine sixty stamp mill on its property and has control of 
a splendid water power on Castle Creek, insuring extraordinarily 
cheap milling, while the accessibility of the ore and cheapness 
of handling it, insures the cost of working tlie mines to 
average less than $1 per ton of ore rained Everything points to 
the company paying big dividends as soon as it starts up and those 
who desire to fully investigate this opening for legitimate, solid 
mining investment should send to Treasurer Sprague for a copy of 
Prof. Bailey's full official report. 



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BOSTON RUBBER SHOE COMPANY, E. S. Converse, Treas- 
urer; No. 245 Causeway Street.— The Boston Uubber Shoe 
Company was incorporated in 1853 and lias always manufac- 
tured rubber boots and shoes. It has been and is one of the 
most aggressive and enterprising companies in the business, 
always stiiving totake the lead in styles and maiutuiiiiog the best 
quality regai'dless of the variations in tlie prices of its goods. It 
now has two large factories, one located at Maiden, the other at 
Meli-ose: both within four to si.\ miles of Boston, possessing the best 
and largest facilities iu tlie world for the manufacture of rubber 
boots and shoes. Its veiy long experience in the hiisiiioss insures 



obtain the best wear from a rubber boot or shoe it is absolutely 
necessary to secure the best lit possible. Many rubbers are ren- 
dered worthless the lirst time worn by eiiher being too small or 
too large, causing the rubber to break. If careful attention is 
given to this matter it will often avoid unjustcriticism of the man- 
ufacturer. Mr. E.S.Converse has been its treasurer for over thirty- 
five yeai'sand it is largely due to his indomitable perseverenceaiid 
ability that the company has achieved its success; as it has been 
brought safely through many hard times and trials and the 
increasing competition in its business. Its general office and ware 
rooms are located at No. 245 Causeway Street, Boston. 







the making of the highest quality of goods which ait and expei 
ience can pioduce. It lias in its employment about 3,000 pei sons 
and its capacity at present is 40,000 pairs per day. Its buildings 
are all of brick, lighted by electricity and eveiything is done for 
the consideration and comfort of its employees. Its name is 



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[AMES F DAWSON Gold Gildei to the Trade Nos. 30and43 
Hauovei Stieet.— As agildei Mr. James F. Dawson has been 
known in the trade for more than ten years, and is recog- 
nized as one of the best in the city. He executes work in all 
branches of gold leaf gilding, and regilds old pictures and mirror 




known throughout the length and breadth of the land, butouiug to 
attempts made from time to time to imitate its name and brand and 
90 con fuse the general public, caution should always be taken to see 
that its full name, Boston Rubber Shoe Company, is stamped upon 



framis which have the appeaiance of being new after leaving his 
hands. Frames are also jointed, and engraving of all kinds is 
done to order. Estimates are furnished by Mr. Dawson, who will 
always be found prompt in his attention to orders. He is a native 



its goods. It should always be born in mind that in order to of England, and came to this country about eighteen years ago. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



BF. BROWN & CO., Manufacturers of Blackings and Dress- 
ings for Leatlier, Nos. 154 atid 156 Commercial Street.— 
^ Boston is headcjuarteis for several great houses which have 
acquired international celebrity for the superiority of 
their product. A notable instance of this is afforded in the suc- 
cessful and highly creditable career of the celebrated firm of 
Messrs. B. F. Brown & Co. Mr. B. F. Brown established this busi- 
ness in 1855 on a comparatively small scale. His blaclcings and 
dressings for leather produced upon formulas original and exclu- 
sive to himself, speedily arrested the attention of the trade as far 
superior to any others in the market. The demand for them in- 
creased at sucli a rapid ratio that in a short time the facilities of 
the house were taxed to the utmost, and in 1873 they removed to 
their present spacious premises, comprising six flours, eacli 2oxl00 
feet in dimensions, and four others, 50x100 feet. Every foot of the 
vast door space is utilized for manufacturing, storage and shipping 
purposes, and a trade is supplied tiiat practically girdles the 
earth. Besides the above the house has a factory at No. 41 Banner 
Street, St. Luke's, London, where llfty hands are employed in man- 
ufacturing the same class of goods as are manufactured here and 
also have another at St. Aiitoine Street, Montreal The sole basis 
of this grand success is Merit. The late Mr. Brown had made a 
careful study of the problems involved and invented blackings 
and dressings that alford the necessary elements to effectually 
preserve the leather, impart a beautiful polish or gloss at once 
brilliant and durable. Brown's French Dressing is the finest ever 
invented. It is entirely free from anything that will shrink, 
crack or rot the leather and is the only liquid dressing that ful- 
fills all the requirements, leaving tlie fabric soft and pliable with 
entire freedom from cracking. No lady's toilet or traveling 
equipment is complete witliout the celebrated Brown's Dressing. 
The introduction of these goods to the Canadian and European 
markets was followed by as great a demand as in the United 
States, and now in their Boston and London factories, upwards of 
100 hands are employed in the manufacture of French Dressing 
for ladies' and children's boots and shoes, trunks, harness, car- 
riage tops.etc. ; Brown's Satin Polish for ladies' and children's boots 
and shoes, etc.; and the standard Army and Navy blacking. These 
blackings and dressings for leather have been honored with prizes 
at the great exhibitions of the world, at the Centenuiel E.\|iosltion 
In Pliiliidelphia in 1876 at Berlin in 1877, at Paris in 1878 wliere they 
received the only medal awarded for leather dressings, in Mel- 
bourne In 1880, at Frankford in 1881, at Amsterdam in 1883. and the 
New Orleans Exposition in 1884 and 18S5, Brown's dre.ssings was 
awarded the highest honors. This is the oldest and leading con- 
cern of its kind in America and is a valued f.actorin the promotion 
of Boston's commercial prosperity. From its inception llie business 
has been managed carefully and .scientifically, using only the best 
materials in the process of manufacture. The trade of the liimse 
Is not only extended over every state of the Union and the Can.a- 
dian provinces, but has reached the most remote countries, includ- 
ing India, Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Siain, 
Bengal, Sandwich Islands, etc., with a large trade throughout 
Europe where Brown's dressing is prized .as higlily as it is here 
and where the sales are constantly increasing. 

GEO. WINTHROPCOFFIN, Agent Atkantic Mutual Insurance 
Company of New York, No. 29 State Stieet.— One of tlie 
most important departments of insurance is that devoted to 
mariners' interests, while the first application of the prin- 
ciple of insurance was to marine risks. In this country our early 
colonists, who were extensively engaged in ship building, com- 
menced to look about for some protection of their capital when 
disaster overtook their property at sea. Ship-owners and mer- 
chants began to combine, and agreed to assume the responsibility 
for a certain amount of loss, signing their names for the amount 
ol their liability under the list of the ship's cargo, and from this 
method the name of " underwriter " became applied to marine in- 
surance. The largest and leading m.arine insurance company in 
the world at the present day is the Atlantic Mutual Insnr.ance 
Con)p,any of New York. Their last annual statement shows 
premiums marked nif .as earned, $.'f.672,3.'?1.21; losses paid, $1.. '599,- 
468.25 ; return premiums and expenses, $788,846.38. A dividend of 
forty per cent, was given to policy holders on terminated 
premiums during the year. This company do a purely marine and 



inland business and give to their clients the security of a surplus 
exceeding ten millions of dollars, and their premiums at cost. As 
an institution the Atlantic Mutual is recognized as of the highest 
character and stability in tlie tiiiancial world, having passed 
through many trying ordeals, which have resulted only in render- 
ing it still stronger and better able to cope with each succeeding 
dilticulty. Its business connections are co-extensive with the civ- 
ilized world, and its pre-eminence lias been honestly won, due to 
the unremitting care and excellent judgment of its president, Mr. 
John D. Jones, whose connection witli thecomiiany dates back to 
its origin. Mr. Coffl ■ is one of the best-informed insurance men ia 
Boston, having an experience covering thirty-six years in the busi- 
ness, while he has been agent for the company here for a period 
of thirty-three years, and during that time has developed an exten- 
sive and influential connection with all cla.sses of ship , and vessel 
owners, shippers and importers, in this city and all along the 
Massacliusetts coast. He commands all the advantages naturally 
accumulated by long years of identification with a special line of 
business, and possesses uneqii,alled facilities for conducting all 
kinds of marine underwriting on ve.ssels and cargoes. His asso- 
ciate, Mr. William K. Colby, has been twenty years in the business. 
Both are natives of Boston, and personally are eminently popular 
with the sliip-owners, merchants and the community at large, 

JW. PORTER, Insurance, No. 27 State Street.— Our largest 
and leading insuiance companies invariably place their 
g Interests in tlie control of gentlemen who have secured 
honorable reputations as insurance agents and brokers, and 
among the latter in tills city is Mr. J. W Porter, whose office is 
eligibly located at No. 27 State Street. Mr. J. W. Porter has been 
prominently identified with the insurance business of thiscity and 
vicinity, as agent and broker, ever since 1861, and it is no flattery 
to say that he occupies a first-class position among our home in- 
stitutions, .and enjoys the entire confidence of the business public 
by his prompt and equitable methods ofadjnstment and the liberal 
and reliable policy that has ever characterized all his transac- 
tions. He now represents the following solid and substantial cor- 
por.ations, viz. :— First National Fire Insurance Company, of Wor- 
cester; Atkantic Fire and Marine Insurance Comijany, of Provi- 
dence; and the Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of 
Boston. Having absolute control of the Boston business of these 
companies, and also agent for the British .and Mercantile Fire 
Insurance Co.. of London, and Providence Washington, of 
Providence. Mr. Porter is in a position to promptly place the largest 
risks, quoting the lowest rate" of premium, and guaranteeing a sure 
and liberal adjustment of all losses. He controls the insuring of 
many of the choicest lines of residential and business properties In 
this city and its suburbs, .and is also prepared to place policies in 
any comp.any desired at the lowest r.ates. He is eminently pop- 
ular with .all classes of property-owners, and enjoys a large and in- 
fluential patronage among leading merchants, manufacturers, 
shipowners and steamship companies. Mr. Porter is a Massachu- 
setts man by birth and training, and President of tlie Boston 
Board of Fire Underwriters. 

PECK BROTHERS. Steam Mercantile Printers and Tag 
Manufacturers. No. 31 Fulton Street, Cor. Cross.— The busi- 
ness of this concern was organized in 18.81 by Messrs. J. A. 
and H. A. Peck, both of whom had previously h.ad a long 
practical experience in the tr.ide. In 1884 the latter retired, leav- 
ing the former sole proprietor of the business, which he has con- 
tinued under the origln.al firm style. The premises occupied com- 
prise two floors, eacli having an area of 25x60 feet. The second 
floor is utilized as an office and composing room, and the third 
floor as the press room. The mechanical equipments include the 
most recently Improved cylinder and job presses, which are oper- 
ated by steam power, and the other acces.sories of the establish- 
ment embrace a vast variety of fonts of fancy, plain, antique and 
modern types, and all the paraphernalia pertaining toa first-class 
general mercantile printing establishment. Bill heads, note liead- 
Ings, circul.ars, cards, price lists, catalogues, memoranda, in fact, 
everything from a small business card to a book is printed here at 
short notice and in the highest style of the art. Upwards of a 
dozen skilled hands are constantly employed. The firm are also 
manufacturers of tags, and in this department have a brisk trade. 



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DYEK, KICE & CO., Tla.t'i, Straw Goods, Japanese Robes, and 
Ladies' Furs, Nus. 3fi, oS and 40 Chauncy Street.— The manu- 
facture of specialties in liats. furs and straw goods, has 
made great progress among tlienidustnes of Boston, and a 
le.adinp; factor in llie business isllie liouse of Messrs. Dyer, Kice & 
Co., located at Nos. 30, 38 and 40Ciianncy Street. Tliistirin enjoy 
a reputatioii and a trade co-extensive witli the entire country as 
manufactuiers of and dealers in hats, straw goods. Japanese robes, 
buffalo robes, ladies' furs, etc. The business was established in 
1850 by Hart, Taylor & Co., and subsequent changes occurred as 
follows, viz: 1S79, Dyer, Taylor & Co , 18S6 Dyer Kice & Co. The 
building occupied for maiiufiicturliig and sales pnrposes contains 
fivestories an<l a basement, "5x150 feet in dimensions, and admira- 
bly equipped with every convenience for the accommodation and 
display of the immense and valuable stock carried and for rapid 
and perfect i>r»ducti(in A force nuinberiiig fr(un sixty to seventy 
skilled hands is constantly employed and the output is one of 
gieat magnitude and importance. The necessity of having ladies' 
Jur garments made to order has been reduced to a minimum, as 
this firm make umple provisimis for extieine as well as uniform 
figures, and can nearly always fit perfectly the most critical and 
exacting customers fnmi their splendid stock. They make like- 
wise all kinds of fur garments to measui-e. and employ a coips of 
highly skilled workmen for this particular brauch. Theirseveral 
departments include seal garments and fancy furs, Japanese 
robes, rugs, etc. ; and straw goods of every description Only the 
finest materi.Tls manufactured or known in the United States or 
Europe are utilized, and the goods are sold at the smallest margin 
of profit. The fur department is a gieat attraction to the Ladies, 
and is famous far and near. In the manufacture of their sacques, 
dolmans and other fur garments, only the finest Alaska sealskins, 
London dyed, are used, so that customers can be absolutely certain 
of obtaining at this establishment truly first class garments that 
will last for yeais, and at prices much lower than those quoted by 
other noted establishments. Shipments ai'e freely made to all 
parts of the United States, the mail order department affording a 
ready means for people throughout the country at large to satisfy 
their wants. The members of tins responsible and rei)resentivtive 
firm, are Messrs. B. F. Dyer, J. B. llice, Jr., F. E. Dyer, and N. G. 
Nickerson, all well-known Bostonians. The two first mentioned 
partners were previously in business together, and succeeded to 
control of the present house in 1879. Mr. Nickerson has had large 
experience in the business as salesman, and was admitted to the 
firm in 1880, as was also Mr. F E. Dyer, a .son of the senior partner. 
These gentlemen are all highly esteemed in business and financial 
life for their enterprise, business cap.acity and integrity, and well 
deserve the brilliant success they have achieved in this field of 
commerce. 

WILLIAM BOND & SON. Chi'onometer and Watch Makers, 
No. 112 State Street.— The oldest established and most 
noted house in the city of Boston, .actively engaged in 
the manufacture of chronometers and watches, is that of 
the Messrs William Bond & Son, whose stoi'e is located at No. 112 
State Street This business after a long existence in England 
was established In Boston in 1793 by William Bond, who was 
succeeded by W. C. Bond and his sons. Mr. W. C. Bond 
was the fii'st director of Harvard College Observatory, which 
was built by subscriptions of his friends. He retired from busi- 
ness to assume this lesponsible position. In 1858 Mr. Uichard F. 
Bond succeeded to the business, and in 1882 his son Mr. Win C. 
Bond was admitted into partnership: the business, however, is 
still conducted under the old fiiin name of William Bond & Son 
Mr. Wm. C. Bond, the son of the founder made the first chrono- 
meter in the United States in 1812. and his son Mr. Richard F. 
Bond, now dead, intioduced many improvements in chi'onoineters, 
which were at once taken advantage of by European makers- 
The firm liave always received the highest awards wherever they 
have exhibited their productions in competiticm with others. 
They received a medal at the Paris exiiosition in 1867 for a superior 
clock invented by Richard F. Bond, and also the Grand Council 
medal at the London exhibition, 1851, for an astronomical record- 
ing apparatus the design of the same gentleman. This last medal 
was one of the twelve of that grade, which were awarded to 
inventors in America. The present firm macufactuie chrono- 



meters, which are unrivalled for accuracy, finish and reliability, 
and have no superiors in this country or Europe. They are the 
sole agents in this country for the celebrated watches of Victor 
Kullberg, and James Poole Ss Co. of Ijondou which are undoubt- 
edly the finest in the world. They likewise rate and loan chrono- 
meters and import scientific instruments to order, while their 
prices in all cases are extremely moderate. The present partners 
are highly esteemed for their scientific ability, skill and integrity. 
Their agents in New 'i'ork are John Bliss & Co., No. 128 Front 
Street, and in Philadelphia Wm. E. Harper, No. 10 South Fourth 
Street. 

GEO. F LOUGEE & CO , Cotton Brokers and Buyers, No. 4 
Liberty Squaie — One of the most active and enterprising 
firms engaged as cotton brokers and buyers in this city is 
tliat of Messrs. Geo. F. Lougee & Co. wlio occupy eligible 
ottice qnartei-s at No. 4 Liberty Square. The business was origi- 
nally established in 1868, by Messis. Gurney & Lougee, who were 
succeeded by the present firm in 1885. F-rom a comparatively 
small beginning the business has been steadily developed and in- 
creased, its progi'ess being commensurate with the energy and 
enterprise displayed in its management. Tlie firm buy and sell 
cotton on commission, supplying mills and dealers throughout 
New England with all grades desired, through tlieir agents in the 
South, and are known in tiade cii'cles as among the most experi- 
enced and successful buyers in the city. Their connections and 
facilities are of a strictly firtt-class chaiacter, enabling them to 
offer speci.al advantages to customers, and to fill all orders of 
whatever magnitude in the promptest and inost satisfactory man- 
ner. Few firms are so highly respected or so universally popular, 
which result has been attained by years of inflexible integrity 
and a strict adherence to honorable and legitimate business 
methods. They carefully consult the best interests of their nu- 
merous patrons, and are prepared to offer desirable grades of 
goods at prices which command the attention of the closest and 
most prudent buyers. The members of the firm are Messrs. 
George F. Lougee and Edw B Coleman. Mr. Lougee was born in 
New Hampshire, is still in the prime of lite, and a well known 
citizen of New Ipswich. N. H. During the war he enlisted in the 
22d I'egiment of Massachusetts volunteers and was distinguished 
for his biavery and served a term of hardships as a prisoner in 
both Libby Prison and Belle Isle. Mr Coleman is a native 
Bostonian and resides in Cambridge. They combine their laige 
practical experience, eminent ability and thorough knowledge of 
the demands of the trade to form a business firm of coinnianding 
influence, wide popularity and solid worth. 

LAFORME & FROTHINGHA.M, Commission Merchants. Rooms 
45 and 46. No, 19 Milk Sti'eet.— The city of Boston is ably 
maintaining her supi'einacy in every branch of import and 
export trade. Representative among our leading shipping 
and commission merchants is the widely known and leliable firm 
of Messrs. Laforine & Frothingliam, whose jflSces are located at 
No. 19 Milk Street. This business was established in 1868 by 
Messis J. A. Laforine .and F. G. Frothingham, both of whom are 
able and enterprising commission merchants, fully conversant 
with every detail of the shipping tiade, and the requirements of 
foreign and domestic markets. Special attention is given by the 
firm to vessel business, and to the purchase and shipment of goods 
on foreign orders. They likewise attend to the chartering and dis- 
patching of vessels, load and discharge cargoes, collect freights 
and act as agents for the owners of steamships or sailing vessels. 
Messrs. Laforme & Frothingham own several vessels and export 
largely petroleum and dry goods to Mediterranean ports. They 
likewise import opium, figs, dried fruits, wool, rags, etc.. and 
make libeial advances when i-equired on consignments, guaran- 
teeing at all times to p.atrons quick sales and prompt returns. It 
will be of direct interest to manufacturers of cotton and dry goods, 
seeking foreign mai-kets to communicate with this responsible 
house, which is promoting the expansion of the export trade ot 
the United States in a marked and successf'il manner. Both 
Messrs. Lafoi'me & Frothingham are natives of Boston. Tliey are 
popular members of the Clianiber of Commerce and of the Vessel 
Owners' Association, and are highly esteemed in commercial cir- 
cles for their business ability, enterprise aud integrity. 



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FISHER'S Restaurant, for. Ladies and Gentlemen, No. 202 Tre- 
niont Street.— The popular well-known Fisher Restaurant is 
one of the most prominent in the city o£ Boston and is lib- 
erally patronized by an appreciative public. Mr. Fisher is 
a native ol the city aud has the correct idea of what is required by 
the citizens, and Jully understands how to cater to their appetites 
and please them. He has been establislied in business since 1880 
and for six years was located at No. 202 Tremont Street. In 1886 
lie removed to No. 7 Hay ward Place, but finding his business over- 
growing his room to accommodate his increasing patronage he re- 
turned to his old stand No. 202 Tremont Street in 1888, which he 
lias had fitted up in a most unexceptionable manner, and made 
more attractive, comfortaljle, cosy and inviting by pleasant sur- 
roundings. It is elegantly Htted up and finished in artistic wood- 
work, with mirrors, reflectors, etc. An ample area of 26.\100 feet, 
afiord every convenience for the purposes of the business and 
every attention is given to patrons by courteous assistants. Mr. 
Fisher is a liberal provider and serves besides the substantials, all 
the various delicacies and game, poultry, oysters, etc., when in 
season, at popular prices. In tact all the marine and farm and 
garden products of our own country and other nations are to be 
lound here. He has been very successful since he commenced 
business, and has by his enterprise and liberality and serving tlie 
choicest, well cooked viands, become well-known as a restaurs n. 
teur and his establishment is highly commended by business men 
and citizens generally. Excellent accommodations are provided 
for ladies with or without escorts, and besides regular meals, de- 
licious lunches are served at all hours. Thorough system and or- 
der prevails throughout the establishment, and those who desii-c to 
obtain a well cooked, neatly served nieal or delicacies, will find 
just what they want at Fisher's, aud a well selected bill of fare to 
. choose from. 

HA. HASKELL, Manufacturer of the Eureka Pipe Bender 
No. 38 Cliardon Street.— One of the best among the many 
, mechanical appliances that have recently been intro- 
duced is that known as the Eureka Pipe Bender which is 
designed for use among plumbers aud house carpenters and 
builders. It is the first appliance ever devised for bending lead 
pipe above an inch in diameter for goose necks or other irregu- 
lar forms and has received the unqualified endor.senient of 
all who have seen or used it. In its construction it is very simple 
and accomplishes in a very short time all that is claimed tor it 
without flattening or collapsing the pipe. They have only been in 
use about a year but in that time they have been inquired for and 
sora in all parts of the United States. Mj-. Haskell, who controls 
the right and is the manufacturer of this bending appliance 
occupies the second floor of the building No. as Cliardon Street 
which is equipped with special machinery operated by steam 
power, and is kept con.stantly busy filling orders. One of the fea- 
tures of this appliance is the low price at which it is sold, averag- 
ing from $1.00 to $1.25 according to size. They are made in eight 
sizes from one to three and a half inches. A sample will be sent 
to any address on receipt of price, and all information cheerfully 
lurnished by calling or writing to the above address. Mr. Haskell, 
who was born in Maine and resides in Hyde Park, is an expert 
practical mechanic and since he introduced the Eureka Pipe Ben- 
der he has become widely known and is receiving that reward his 
skill and ingenuity justly entitle him. 

THOMAS O'CALLAGHAN & CO.,Wholesale and Retail Dealers 
in Fine Carpetings, Etc., Nos. 597, ,509aiKl 001 Washington 
Street.— Handsome carpets and oil-cloths are now properly 
regarded as but parts of an harmonious whole, in consider- 
ing the subject of household furnishings and interior decorations, 
and products of the carpet looms of the present day are works of 
art, and these indispensable articles for covering our floors are no 
longer confined to the homes of the opulent, the economy of steam 
production placing them within the reach of all classes of the 
community. In this connection special reference is made in this 
commercial review of Boston, to the progressive and representa- 
tive house of Messrs. Thomas O'Callaghan & Co., wliolesale and 
retail dealers in carpetings and oil-clotli.s, whose salesrooms are 
located at Nos. ,597 to 601 Washington Street. This business was 
established in 1886 by Mr. Thomas O'Callaghan, who is sole propri- 



etor. Mr. O'Callaghan is considered one of the ablest salesmen 
in the country. The premises occupied comprise a superior four- 
story and basement building, 60x150 feet in dimensions, fully 
equipped with all modern conveniences that good taste and enter- 
prise can suggest for the successful prosecution of this steadily 
growing business. The stock shown here is one of the finest in 
the United States and comprises all the leading novelties in ax- 
ministers, Wiltons, Brussels, velvets, ingrains, tapestries, oil-cloths, 
mats and mattings, rugs, etc., which are unsurpassed for qualify, 
beauty, and excellence, while the prices quoted are extremely 
moderate. A specialty is made of Lowell and Roxbury carpets. 
Fifty experienced clerks, assistants, etc., are employed in the va- 
rious departments, and the attendance upon customers is always 
prompt, oolite, and intelligent. The trade of this popular house is 
by no means confined to Boston, but extends througliout the prin- 
cipal cities of New England. Mr. O'Callaghan was born in Boston, 
where he is highly esteemed by the community for his enterprise, 
energy and integrity. The success which has attended this house 
since its establishment has caused the proprietor to buy exclu- 
sively from the most famous importers and manufacturers, thereby 
giving patrons the benefits previously acquired by jobbing houses 
only. 

UNION INVESTMENT COMPANY. Kansas City, Mo., W. M. 
Mick, Manager, Eastern Oflice Room A No. 81 State Street. 
—Kansas is now recognized as the most productive agricul- 
tural section of the United States. The energetic farmer 
finds nature at her best m the soil which she gives him, yet he 
must have capital to enable him to carry on his work successfully. 
The eastern capitalist supplies him with this, and at the same 
time the investor places his money where it accomplishes material 
good, while it yields him a very profitable return in the shape of 
interest. In connection with these remarks, we desire to make 
special reference in this commercial review of Boston, to the 
representative and substantial Union Investment Company of 
Kansas City, Mo., whose eastern olTice is located at No. 31 State 
Street. This company was duly organized under the laws of Mis- 
souri in 1886 with a paid up capital of $1,000,000, since which period 
it has built up a liberal and influential patronage. The following 
gentlemen, who are highly regarded in financial and business 
circles tor their executive ability, prudence and just methods, are 
the officers and directors; W. P. Rice, president; H. P. Stimson, 
vice president; O. F. Page, secretary and treasurer: W. M. Mick, 
Boston manager; Directors, W. P. Moores, W. M. Mick, W. P.Rice, 
H. P. Stimson, and O.F.Page. The Union Investment Company 
confines its loans on improved farms strictly to the corn growing 
sections of Kansas. The company loans solely on first mortgage, 
its agents carefully inspecting every security offered, and being 
centrally located to its field of business, its officers have at all 
times a thorough knowledge of the values. This corporation not 
only pl.acessums loaned upon mortgage directly from the investor 
accompanied by its guarantees, but also issues its debentures 
based upon farm mortgages, similar in all respects to those it 
transfers and assigns. These debentures are secured on an average 
of many mortgages, besides being secured by the company's 
capital. They are most permanent and reliable forms of invest- 
ment, can be readily tr.ansferred, convenient and amply secured 
at the ratio of $250,000 security for every $100,000 of debentures. 
The following statement of the Union Investment Company at the 
clo.se of business September 19, 1SS8, shows its affairs to be in a 
most flourishing and stable condition. Resources: Bills receivable, 
$235,373.00; accounts receivable, $115,819.00; real estate, $335,- 
649.95; real estate lo.ans, $97,725.00; bonds, stocks and securities. 
$562,921.10; furniture and fi.xtures, $5,174.91; cash in Hanover 
N.ational Bank, New York, $54,444.36; cash in National B,ank of 
Redemption, Boston, $54,813.50; cash in American N,ational Bank, 
Kansas City. Mo., $12,156.96: due from other banks and bankers, 
$25,694.01; total, $1,400,078.87. Liabilities: Capital stock, $1,000,- 
000.00; bills payable. $59,000.00; time deposits and accounts p.ay- 
able, $253,078.38; debentures, $13,.500.00; interest account, $8,723.88t 
undivided proflts, $2.5,776.61; dividend No. 3, payable October 10, 
$40,000.00; total, $1,400,078.87. Mr. W. M. Mick, the Boston manager, 
is a Virginian. He has a large banking experience, is known as a 
careful and conservative business man, and is highly esteemed in 
financial circles for his integrity and sound business principles. 



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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE.— Boston as a central point for 
(iistinguished joiunalistifi enterprise and the development of 
liiKli class newspapers, lias long held aprominent position in 
the United States. In tliisconnection we desire to directspe- 
cial reference in this commercial review to tlie representative and 
progressive Globe Newspaper Company, proprietors of the Daily, 
Sunday and Weekly Globe, which are the recognized leading news- 
papers of New Engl.ind. The Globe Newspaper Company was 
duly incorporated in 1872 under the laws of Massachusetts. It was 




reorganized in 187S, with a paid-up capital of $125,U00, and now its 
Daily and Sunday issues of the Globe have a larger circulation 
than any other Boston newspaper. The first editor of the Globe 
was Maturiu M, Ballou, and the first paper issued March 4th, 
1872. contained eight pages of seven columns, the price being four 
cents. He was succeeded in August 1873, by Colonel Ch.is. H. 
Taylor, wlio has been the editor and manager of the Globe from 
that time until the present and the success aciiieved has been due 
to his enterprise and industry. The building is one of the finest 
and largest in Boston, and was built expressly for the Globe; 
is admnaljly equipped with all modern appliances, includ- 
ing elevators, electric lights, etc., and no pains or expense 
liave been spared to make this establishment complete in every 
detail. In the printing rooms are three splendid single and two 
double Hoe presses, which are able to print 1,400 papers in a min- 
ute. The machinery is driven by two superior 125 horse power 
steam engines, and the total number of persons employed in the 
various departments is about 500. There are likewise two elevator 
and electric iiglit engines on the premises, of the latest type. 
Eight editions of the Globe are turnedout daily, which consume 



fifteen tons of paper. The Daily, Sunday and Weekly Globe are 
got upon in tlie highest style of the typographical art. An able and ' 
superior stall of editorial writers, reporters and correspondents is 
employed. It has regular letters from its own correspondents 
abroad, and carefully covers all political, local and foreign news, 
while at the same time it gives ample descriptions of races, base 
ball, and all kinds of manly sports and pastimes. Its editorials 
are able, crisp, direct to the point, and treat all matters of interest 
in an impartial and fearless manner. The circulation of the Sun- 
day Globe in November was 127,023, and the Daily Globe 148,710. 
Its advantages .as a splendid advertising medium have been 
recognized very generally by all classes of the coninuniity, and 
in this line it conducts the largest and most lucrative business 
in Boston. In consequence of its large size and vast aiiiount 
of original and able reading matter, it is not only the cheapest 
but unquestionably the best paper in the city. Col. Chas. H.Tay- 
lor, the manager, w.as born in Chaiiestown, Mass., and during 
the civil war w.as a private in the 38th Mass. Vol. Infantry. He 
served one year and was seriously wounded at the b.attle of Port 
Hudson, Miss., and eventually retired from the service for dis- 
ability. He w.as priv.ate secretary to Governor Clafftin, and was 
also clerk of tlie House of Represent-itives. Col. Taylor is a 
popular member of the Press, Temple, Central and Algonquin 
Clubs, etc., and is one of Boston's highly esteemed and public 
spirited citizens. The circulation of the Globe is steadily in- 
ere.asing not only in Boston but in all sections of New England, 
and its present prosperous status augurs well tor the future. 

"vARK HOUSE, W. D. Park & Son, Proprietors; European 
J Plan, Bosworth Street— The city of Boston has long been 
recognized as tlie centre where unlimited capital, thor- 
ough experience and boundless enterprise have com- 
bined to make its cafes and restaurants superior to any in 
tlie country. As a contributor to the reputation of the city in 
tliis reg.ard, and as a model establishment of its kind, the Park 
House, on Bosworth Street, stands pre-eminent. It is f,anious 
Uh- country over for its 'good cheer and expert management, 
hihI is tlie oldest and best known chop-house In Boston. It 
was established in 1842 by Mr. T. D. Park, on Devonshire Street, 
now the site of part of the post oHlce ; w.as removed in 1848 to 
.\lurton Place, off Milk Street, where he died in 1855, and w.as 
succeeded by his son Hon. W. D. Park, and in 1858 removed to 
Centr.al Court, oft Washington Street, in the rear of Jordan, 
Marsh & Co.'s; then to present site, oft Fremont Street, (for- 
iiieiiy known as Montgomery Place,) in 1875. The firm of W. D. 
I'ai k & Son was organized in 1883, both partners bringing to 
lii'ar the w idest range of practical experience, and giving the 
ijusiness the benefit of their close personal attention and sound 
judgment. The Park House is an eleg.int four-story brick 
liuilding, containing forty -eight guest rooms, conducted on the 
European plan, while the sp.acious cafe and restaurant are 
situated on the ground floor, and cover a floor space of 60x100 
feet. The arrangements and aiipointments are of the best pos- 
iible chaincter, reflecting the utmost credit upon the enterprise 
and good taste of the management and perfectly insuring the 
convenience and comfort of its patrons. The cuisine is in charge 
of cliefs of marked ability and n.ational reputation. The manage- 
ment secures its table supplies from the most varied sources, all the 
important inarkets of the country paying tribute to its enterprise. 
All the delicacies that can possibly be obtained are served in liberal 
abundance, while the perfect manner in which the viands are 
served, (having a person.al supervision of both proprietors,) make 
a meal at tiie Park House a most .agreeable experience. While 
there are larger cafes in the country, there are none which pos- 
sess such well founded claims upon the public f,avor or enjoy a 
more deserved popularity. Any dish is cooked to order in the 
best manner, and at moderate prices, and a bar and smoking 
room are located on the same floor. A specialty is made of Park's 
Musty Ale in pewter mugs, and boiled live lobsters, for which this 
house has a wide prestige and popularity. The patronage of the 
Park House is of a char.acter thoroughly complimentary to the 
firm whose energy, enterprise, discrimination and intelligent en- 
terprise have ni.ade the establLshment a prime favorite with the 
best classes the world over. The Messrs. Park are native Boston- 
ians, and are held iu universal esteem as accomplished exponents 
of their business. 



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THE SUFFOLK NATIONAL BANK of Boston, A. Lawrence 
Edmands, President, and Edward Tyler, Cashier, No. 60 
State Street.— This reliable bank was originally chartered 
as a State Bank in 1818. Eventually in 1865 it was reorgan- 
ized under the National Banking laws, as the Suffolk National 
Bank. The paid up capital of the bank is $1,500,000 which has been 
further augmented by a surplus of $280,000. The tollowing gentle- 
men, who are widely and favorably known in financial and busi- 
ness circles for tlieir prudence and just metliods are tlie officers 
and directors: A. Lawrence Edmands, president, and Edward 
Tyler, cashier. Directors: Henry Austin Whitney, David R. 
Whitney, A. Lawrence Edmands, Edmund Dwight, Benjamin W. 
Crowninshield, Augustus Lowell, Alanson Tucker, and Harcourt 
Amory. The banking rooms are spacious and elegantly appointed, 
affording ample accommodations to patrons, and possessing also 
every convenience for facilitating the dispatch of business. A 
general banking business Is transacted, including the receiving of 
deposits, the discounting of approved commercial paper, the col- 
lection of drafts, and the dealing in goverinnent and first-class se- 
curities. The bank likewise makes telegraphic transfers of money, 
and deals in foreign and domestic exchange This is not only one 
of the oldest banks in Boston but also one of tlie best managed 
and most liberally patronized, and from its foundation has re- 
tained the confidence of the public in a marked degree. Tlie In- 
vestments of tlie Suffolk National Bank have always been made 
with care and judgment, and its ventures of capital are at all 
times well secured. The officers are obliging and efficient in tlieir 
dealings with the public and are consequently very popular. The 
president, Mr. Edmands, is a tlioroughly capable financier, and a 
vigorous exponent of tlie soundest principles governing banking 
and finance. Mr. Tyler, the cashier, has been in tlie employment 
of the bank for the last fifty years— fifteen years discount clerk 
and thirty-flve years cashier. He Is an able business man, emi- 
nently qualified for his Important position. The directors are 
prominent merchants, manufacturers and capitalists, whose con- 
nection witli the bank promises a long career of usefulness and 
prosperity. 

REDDING ELECTRICAL COMPANY, Manufacturers of Elec- 
trical Supplies; Harvey Redding, President; Jerome Red- 
ding, Treasurer; No. 48 Hanover Street.— A representative 
and successful company in the city of Boston, actively en- 
gaged in the manufacture of all kinds of electrical supplies, is that 
known as the Redding Electrical Company. This business was es- 
tablished in 1868 by Jerome Redding and Harvey Redding, who 
conducted it till 1883, when it was duly incorporated under the 
laws of Massachusetts, the officers being Harvey Redding, 
president, and Jerome Redding, treasurer. The company has 
a well-equipped workshop and manufactures all descriptions of 
telegraph and electrical supplies, electrical bells, annunciators, 
burglar alarms, watch clocks, electric gas lighting apparatus, 
speaking tubes and electric lighting and plating machinery. The 
company makes a specialty of fitting buildings with electrical ap- 
paratus of every kind, incandescent lights, etc., and the famous 
Redding Electric Watchman's Time Register. The Redding Elec- 
tric Watchman's Time Register is UKfd in buildings where watch- 
men are employed, and is a guard against (ire and thieves, giving 
an exact report of the faithful, or unfaithful performance of duty 
of the watchman. It is the only register in the market giving a 
plain, printed record, whicli Is greatly superior to the ordinary 
record made by punching small holes through the dial. The punc- 
tured record is very hard to read, even when made in the most per- 
fect manner: and In addition to this defect, tlie needles which 
make the holes through tlie dials are very liable to stick and tear 
the paper-dial, thus spoiling the record for the whole 
night. This usually occurs accidentally, but it Is within the power 
of the watchni.in to destroy tlie dial at any time when he wants to 
neglect his duties, by simply pressing on one of the station but- 
tons for a few minutes, when he can leave his beat for the wliole 
night, and claim that he has performed his duty faithfully. The 
Bedding Electrical Register obviates all these difficulties. Instead 
of needles to punch holes through the dials. It is provided with 
steel figures which press against an Ink ribbon, and prints the 
numbers of the stations in plain figures on the face of the dial. 
These figures cannot tear the dial because they do not stick to it. 



or against it, even when the circuit is closed, but spring against it 
mechanically, when the station key Is operated in tlie same man- 
ner as tlie hammer of an electric bell strikes the gong. This regis- 
ter is especially recommended by the Insurance companies, be- 
cause tlie record is so plain that the Inspector can tell at a glance 
If the watchman has made every round faillifully, the omission of 
the record of one station being noticed instantly ; whereas the old 
style of dial has to he very carefully examined all over, in order to 
see if every minute puncture is in its correct place. This requires 
such close attention, and takes so much time, that it is sure to be 
done in a negligent manner, Instances having been known where 
watchmen liave for months omitted one station without detection. 
The company furnishes a burglar-proof Yale lock with every regis- 
ter ; but if tlie watchm.an succeeded in getting a key to fit it, he 
could not get at the dial to tamper witli it, for one of the printing 
figures is connected to the lock of the door in such a manner that 
it prints its niunber on the dial every time the door is opened, tlius 
effectually preventing any attempt of the watclini.an to open the 
door and tamper witli the clock without certain detection. The 
register is placed in tlie office and connected to iron key-boxes lo- 
cated at every point which it is desired to have the watchman 
visit, into which he inserts Ills key (which fits all stations alike), 
and gives it one full turn; after which the station automatically 
prints its number on tlie paper-dial in the register. The stations 
are all independent of each other, and may be visited in any order 
and number of times. The record of any number of watchmen can 
be made on the same dial, and each watchman will be obliged to 
operate his respective beat at tlie same time the others are operat- 
ing; therefore, it is impossible for one watchman to relieve the 
other. The trade of the Redding Electrical Company extends 
througliout all sections of the United States and Canada, and is 
steadily increasing. A superior illustrated catalogue and price 
list is i>ublished by the company, which is forwarded iiromptly 
upon application. 

CS. KEENE, Eastern Selling Agent, of Buchanan and 
Lyall's Toh.accos, No. 14 Central Wharf .—New England .and 
, Boston form one of the most important fields for the 
wholesale trade In the highest grades of manufactured 
tobaccos. As Is well known inferior grades have no success in 
this market. Dealers universally seeking and demanding the best 
qualities and the most popular brands, more especially those of 
the famous old house of Buchanan & Lyall, which permanently 
maintain the lead In the markets of the Middle and Eastern 
St.ates, They have been selling in Boston since 1863 .and have 
achieved the most enviable of reputations, tor every qualification 
of purity, choice selections of tobaccos, and uniform care In man- 
ufacture. In 1881, Mr. C. S. Keene, who from 1878 had been one of 
the firm's most enterprising and successful traveling salesmen, 
was appointed the Eastern or New England general agent, and 
early developed a big increase In the sales. Buchanan & Lyall's 
tobaccos have only to be brought to the attention of the trade to 
be bought In tlie largest quantities, and Mr. Keene In his commo- 
dious premises on Central Wharf, carries a heavy stock of Bu- 
chanan Si Lyall's most popular brands of plug and smoking tobac- 
cos. He employs seven clerks and porters and four men on the 
road, selling to jobbers and wholesalers all over New England and 
in tlie Provinces. His specialties are the celebrated " Pl.anet " 
brand, admittedly the king of all dark tobaccos, and " Neptune," 
equally famous, as being by far the finest brighttobacco m.anufact- 
ured. The consumption of the above two brands throughout New 
England is enormous and constantly growing. Other popular 
brands handled by Mr. Keene are "Queen Checker Bars." 
" Sailor's Choice," the standard dark navy, " Flush," the standard 
light navy, " Rouser Smoking Plug," and Navy Clippings, in two, 
four, eight and sixteen ounce papers, Mr. Keene is a native of 
Providence, R. I., and though a young man is old in practical ex- 
perience, an authority in the wholesale tobacco trade, and uni- 
versally popular and respected. His energy and enterprise In 
pushing the sales of the tob.accos he represents have resulted in 
steady enlargement of trade, and we cannot but urge dealers 
everywhere who are not already handling Buchanan & Lyall's 
product to send a trial order to their wholesale merchant. They 
will find these goods to be the most ready sellers and to give the 
greatest satisfaction of any In the market. 



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HATHAWAY, SOULE & }IARRIN(iTON, Manufacturers of 
Men's Fine Shoes, No. 280 Devonshire Street. New York 
Branch: Nos. 126 and 128 Duaue Street.— One of the most 
niaiked records of successful progress and development in 
the New Engl.and boot and shoe manufacturing industry, is that of 
the celebrated and enterprising house of Messrs. Hathaway, Soule 
& Harrington. For every essential and every feature of elegance, 
style and comfort tlieir lines of men's fine slioes are recognized to 
lead the market, and aie in growing demand with the best class of 
trade throughout the United States. The business was established 
about twenty years ago by Mr. Savory C. Hathaway, succeeded by 
the firm of Hathaway & Soule, and who thus continued until 1874, 
when the present house was organized.coniposedof Messrs. Savory 
C. Hathaway, Rufus A. Soule and Herbert A. Harrington. The two 
former gentlemen are residents of New Bedford, while Mr. Har- 
rington lives in Brookline. They unite every possible qualification, 
bringing to bear the widest range of practical experience, perfected 
facilities and influential connections. Their business has grown 
upon the legitimate basis of supply and demand to proportions of 
great magnitude, and they now have In active operation, three 
great factories thoionghly equipped with the latest improved 
machinery and appliances, and situated respectively at New Bed- 
ford, Middleboro and Campello. From six to seven hundred hands 
are there employed in the manufacture of medium and fine grades 
of men's shoes, and which embrace eveiy feature of excellence 
and all the niodein improvements rendering them fully the equal 
of the finest custom work. The copartners give their personal su- 
pervision to every branch of the business, selecting their leather 
and findings with the utmost caie, introducing the latest popular 
styles, employing the most skilful cutters and foi-emen, and guar- 
anteeing the qu.ality of every pair of shoes leaving their factories. 
They offer a stock of men's line hand made shoes, Goodyear welts, 
and machine sewed, and at their headquartei-s. No. 280 Devonshire 
Street, buyers can select from the finest and most comprehensive 
stock in Boston. The firm's trade extends throughout the United 
States and the British Provinces, and has necessitated, by reason 
of its growth, the opening of a branch store in New York City, at 
Nos. 126 and 128 Duaue Street, whence the very finest trade of the 
metropolis is supplied with these fine shoes, and the demand for 
which is rapidly enlarging in the metropolis of America, a sure in- 
dication of their superiority. Messrs. Hathaway. Soule'A Harring- 
ton are all natives of Massachusetts, and have here developed a 
great and growingly important branch of skilled industry, and of 
the utmost value to Boston as a prominent factor of her commerce. 
They have ever retained the confidence of leading commercial cir- 
cles, and are worthy representatives of the boot and shoe manu- 
facturing interests. 



ments of every blanch of trade. Mr. Smith was born ih Maine, 
and has been a business resident of Boston since 188'2. He is 
largely interested in Maine lumbering operations, and has done 
much to develop the industries and business of his state. Mr. 
Blauchard was born in Cambridge, Mass., is a giaduate of Harvard 
College, and is of a race of lumber men. His experience was 
gained by connections with the western pine yards, and by years 
of intimate acquaintance with the New England tiade. The fimi 
in addition to their long list of customers, who are dealers and 
manufacturers, sell to exporters for shipment to Europe, West 
Indies, etc., and are thoroughly representative of the best metli 
ods governing the wholesale lumber tiade of Boston and New 
England. 

HODGMAN RUBBER COMPANY. Manufiicturers of India 
Rubber Goods, No. 32 School Street.— The extensive enter- 
prise conducted under this heading constitutes the Boston 
br.ancli of wh.at is unquestionably one of, if not the oldest 
rubber Industries in the country. This industry was founded as 
far back as 1838, by Mr. Daniel Hodgman, and was incorporated 
under the present title in 1886. The officers, Geo. F. Hodgman. 
president, and Charles A. Hodgman, secretary, .are sons of the 
founder, who, from having liter,ally been raised in the business, 
are familiar with all its details and eminently qualified for its suc- 
cessful conduct. The comp.auy h.as laigeand well eqflipped man- 
ufactories at Tuckahoe and Mt. Vernon, N. Y., which give em- 
ployment to a large force of experienced operatives, and the pro- 
duct comprising all descriptions of India rubber goods, h.as an old 
established standard reputation in the trade and commands an 
extensive and profitable niiirket throughout this country and Can- 
ada. The Boston branch was established in Jan. 1887, and fiom 
its inception has enjoyed an extensive and prosperous business. 
The spacious premises consisting of a stoie and basement 25x12.5 
feet in size, are fitted up in a style of modern convenience and 
attr.activeness. eveiy facility being at hand for the advantageous 
display of goods. The mammoth stock comprises all kinds of lub- 
ber clothing and footwear, a speci.alty being made of gentleman'-i 
mackintosh and plain rubber coiits and.Kadies' gossamers, which 
are m.ade up in the newest patterns and styles and embody in a 
notable degree all the advantiiges and comforts obtainable in 
these garments. A large force of clerks and salesmen is kept 
busy in supplying the tr.ade throughout New England with tlie.se 
justly celebr.ated goods, and the geneitil business is to the highest 
degree prosperous. Mr. Noyes, the Boston manager, is a gentle- 
man of fifteen years experience in the business, .and to his well 
directed and enterprising management is laigely due the signal 
success achieved. 



SMITH & BLANCHARD, Wholesale Dealers in Lumber, No. 75 
State Street.— An old established, progressive and thor- 
oughly representative firm of wholesale lumber merchants, 
is tli.at of Messrs. Smith & Bl.anch.ird, who enjoy unrivalled 
facilities for the filling of the largest orders for any description of 
eastern, western or southern lumber both hard and soft. The busi- 
ness, which has now grown to proportions of such magnitude, was 
originally founded by O. H Smith, in 1870, thus continuing until 
1885, when he and Mr. H. W. Blanchard formed the present co- 
partnership. They have direct and most infiuential connections 
with every important lumber region of the country east of the 
Mississippi. They are direct receivers of southern yellow pine by 
steamer and in cargo lots from Georgia and Florida; of western 
hardwoods such .as oak, walnut, ash, maple, whitewood, etc., via 
rail, and of the best growths of New England and Provinces 
spruce pine, etc. A prominent specialty is their famous Pennsyl- 
vania hemlock, in constant and growing demand iu the New Eng- 
land markets. They are the sole eastern agents of the Pennsyl- 
vania Lumber Storage Company, the largest company ever formed 
for the handling of hemlock. This company controls over half of 
the hemlock in Pennsylvania, and expect to handle over two hun- 
dred million feet during the ensuing year. The firm is one of the 
largest shingle concerns in New England, marketing upwards of 
fifty millions each year. They also furnish Large quantities of 
spruce by rail, controlling the cut of sever.al of the best mills in 
New Hampshire .and Vermont. The copartners bring to bear the 
most practical experience, and thoroughly understand the require- 



GA. SAWY'ER, Receiver and Dealer in Mutton, Lamb, Ve.al 
and Poultry ; Basement, No. 3 Quincy Market.— The qiies- 
^ tion of food is one of the first with which the human family 
in all stages of existence has to grapple, and there is no 
branch of food supply that attracts more widespread attention, nor 
one in which more capital is employed than in the me.at business, 
the headquarters of which iu this city is Quincy Market. A leader 
among the commission merchants and wholesale dealers in meat 
supplies in this centi-al and popular market, is Mr. G. A. Savvyei-, 
who occupies the b.asement No. 3 Quincy Market. Mr. Sawyer 
started business twenty-two years ago, and has occupied his pres- 
ent premises for the past five years. The premises are spacious, 
and are provided with every convenience and facility for the suc- 
cessful prosecution of the business. The latest improvements in 
the; way of refrigerators, etc., can here be found in successful 
operation. Mr. Sawyer is a practical butcher and brings wide 
experience to bear on his enterprise. He is quick to recognize and 
supply the wants of his trade, and there is no better judge of meats 
in this city. He has a spacious, well equipped slaughter houses .at 
W.atertown, and in addition to his supplies therefrom he is in daily 
receipt of large consignments from the west and elsewhere, so th.at 
he has .at all times on hand a large stock from which to furnish the 
wants of his patrons. Mutton, l.ainb, veal and poultry form the 
commodities handled by this enterprising and prosperous house, 
and the tiiinsactions are limited to the fulfilment of wholes.ale 
orders. The trade extends throughout the city and New England, 
and is yearly growing in volume. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON, 



METROPOLITAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S OUTSIDE 
LINE OF STEAMEKS, H. M. Whitney, Agent, No. 54 Cen- 
tral Wharf.— Boston enjoys superior transportation facili- 
ties both by rail and water and has largely increased her 
coniniereial and industrial importance and that of the large terri- 
tory tributary to her, by having direct lines of steamers to import- 
ant points, competing with and effectually keeping down extor- 
tionate railway freight rates. Tiie most important line of coast- 
wise steamships is unquestionably the Metropolitan forming a tri- 
weekly line direct to New York City by the outside route around 
Cape Cod, and through Long Island Sound. This line was Hrst 
established twenty-four years ago, and has had a large measure of 
patronage from the merchants and shippers of New York and 
Boston, and also of a large section of the United States, as con- 
nected with these cities by lines of steamboats, or railroads. The 
company is duly incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, 
and has a large capital, held in strong hands and is under the 
ablest executive management. The president of the company is 
Mr. II. M. Whitney, too widely and favorably known in Boston to 
require any comment at our hands. Under his guidance, the com- 
pany is prosperous, its fleet large and of the highest type of modern 
steamships, and its rates and service deservedly popular. The 
company's fleet is composed as follows: S. S. "Herman Winter," 
captain, John M. Hullett; " H. F. Dunock," captain, C. F. Eld- 
ridge; "General Whitney," captain. Maynor Bearse, ( the above 
three are of iron); "Glaucus." captain, A. B. Coleman; and 
the "Neptune" and "Nereus" reserve ships not now in commis- 
sion. The company's steam.ships are of large size, fine models, 
carefully built for the outside route, full powered and make 
regular and speedy voyages in all weather. The rates are lower 
than by any other line; there .are unrivalled wharf accommo- 
dations at both enils of the route and no rehandling of goods is 
required by this line as by all inside routes. Close connection is 
made at each port with all railroad, steamship and transportation 
companies, and through rates and bills of hading are a specialty. 
The company makes a specialty of shipping either from New Y'ork 
or Boston, .as rates may favor, all goods for export, granting through 
bills of lading to London, Liverpool, Havre, Rotterdam, Hamburg, 
Bremen, West Indies, etc. Mr. Whitney the general manager has his 
offices at India Wharf, and where all further particulars can be 
obtained. We recommend the close attention of the merchants 
and manufacturers of Boston and New England to the unequalled 
advantages oBered by this line for shipping to or from New York 
and a large portion of the Union. The route is safe, economical 
and expeditious, and is well worthy of the success attending the 
company's operations. 

JW. IIUNNEWELL & CO., Wholesale Dealers of Refined Pe. 
troleum, Etc., Nos. 70 and 72 Commercial Street.— The 
rapid extension of the use of petroleum is one of the 
marvels of the present century. It is one of the most 
prominent articles ofexport of the United States to foreign 
countries, over two thousand manufacturing establishments, some 
of them of vast magnitude, are employed in its refining and purifi- 
cation, and towns and even cities are the outgrowth of its dis- 
covery. A prominent and old established house in Boston, en- 
gaged in the packing and sale of refined petroleum, is that of 
Messrs. J. W. Hunnewell & Company. Nos. 70 and 72 Commercial 
Street. This business was established in 1837 by Mr. J. Hunne 
well, who conducted It till 1870, when Messrs. George C. Goodhue 
and Kobert D. Archer succeeded to the management, the business 
being carried on under the old firm name of J. W. Hunnewell & 
Company. The firm's oil refinery is situated at E.ist Boston. The 
warehouse is a substantiiil four-story building, fully equipped 
with every appliance and facility for the successful conduct of the 
business. The firm deal largely in refined petroleum, spirits of 
turpentine, lard oil, etc., in patent cans for shipping, also in drugs, 
paints and oils. The petroleum of this responsible firm has no 
superior tor its entire safety, brilliancy of light and perfection of 
purification. The other speci.ilties of this house are unrivalled for 
quality, reliability and general excellence. Messrs. J. W. Hunne- 
well & Company fill .all orders either for the home trade or export 
at the lowest ruling market prices. They sell largely to ship 
ch.andlers in all sections of the United States, and export exten- 
sively refined petroleum to Canada, Mexico, South America, the 



West Indies, Europe, .\frica, India and Australia. Messrs. Good- 
hue & Archer are popular members of tlie Chamber of Commerce, 
where they are highly esteemed for their enterprise, promptness 
and integrity. As exponents of the wholesale refined petroleum 
triide, we know of no firm more progressive than J. W. Hunnewell 
& Company, who well merit the large measure of success which 
has attended their business career. 

NESS COUNTY BANK, Ness City, Kansas, A. E. Alvord, 
Eastern Manager, No. 40 Water Street.— No financial insti- 
tution of the west has h,ad a more creditable and prosper- 
ous career than the Ness County B.tnk of Ness City, Kan, 
It was established in 1885 to meet the imperative demand for first- 
class banking facilities in western Kansas, and on February 22d, 
1888, was duly incorporated with an authorized capital of $260,000, 
and whicli is held by leading capitalists of Kansas and New 
England. The board of directors comprises representative men ■ 
of Ness City, and the following eastern men: A. E. Alvord of 
Boston ; L. Cleaves of Rockport ; and L. J. Fosdick of 
Boston. Tlie officers are as follows: N. C. Merrill, president; 
J. G. Arnold, vice-president; E. C. Merrill, cashier; A. S. 
Hazen, asst. cashier; and A. E. Alvord, eastern manager. 
They possess special qualifications for the discharge of the impor- 
tant duties devolving upon them, and tlie bank luas proved a bless- 
ing to Kansas farmers iind merchants and affords the safest and 
most convenient channel for the investment of eastern capital in 
the finest class of farm and city mortgages ; the choicest bonds 
and county warrants, and a limited amount of gilt edge commer- 
cial paper. All loans are taken under the personal supervision 
and in tlie name of Mr. Merrill, the president, a pioneer in that 
section, who is intimately acquainted with both the applicant and 
his property, and no confidence is placed in local agents in the 
west to solicit loans. Tlieir $400 and $500 mortgages are on pre- 
cisely the same class of farms as ordinarily carry $700, $800 and 
$1,000. The rate of interest offered is the highest possible consist- 
ent with absolute safety and ranges from 6 to 7 per cent., accord- 
ing to time and character of the security. Mr. Alvord has most 
satisfactorily represented the bank's interests in the east. The 
b.ank pays twelve per cent, annual dividend and its stock has ap- 
preciated rapidly in value. Its last semi-annual statement is of a 
very flattering character, and indicates not only ability and in- 
tegrity of management, but also the rapid growth of the western 
section of the state. Those seeking absolutely sate invest- 
ments, and of the most remunerative character should apply to 
Mr. Alvord, at his office. No. 40 Water Street, who afways has on 
hand the best class of farm and city mortgages, and other desir- 
able securities. He is a popular and responsible young business 
man and gives the closest attention to the interests of all patrons 
of the bank, and has developed a growing connection of the most 
desirable character. 

CE. WHITMORE & CO., Brokers, Grain, Stocks and Bonds, 
No. 131 Devonshire Street.— The centralization of capital in 
the city of Boston, and the correspondingly marked degree 
of financial enterprise and activity, inherent in the money 
and stock markets, are to a great extent due to the conservative 
methods and ability of our leading bankers and brokers. Promi- 
nent among the number, is the reliable and newly established 
firm of Messrs. C. E. Whitmore & Co., whose offices are centrally 
located at No. 131 Devonshire Street. Tlie members of this co- 
partnership are Messrs. C. E. Whitmore and D. W. Coolidge, both 
of whom possess great practical experience, and an intimate and 
accurate knowledge of the money and stock markets. The fii m 
purchases and sells for cash or on margin all securities listed on 
the Boston and New York stock exchanges, likewise grain, provi- 
sions and petroleum. Messrs. C. E. Wliitmore & Co. are noted for 
obtaining early and accurate information as to the state of the 
market, and number among their customers many active operators 
and wealthy investors. The offices are well equipped and are 
connected by prlv.ate wire with New Y'ork and Chicago. The 
partners are popular members of the Boston Stock Exchange, and 
are highly regarded in financial circles for their prudence, energy 
and just methods. Their New York correspondent is Mr. W. M. 
Tewksbury, No. 11 Wall Street and at his hands patrons will ever 
be treated with courtesy. 



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RUSSELL COUNTER COJIPANY, JIamifactureis of Water- 
proof Moulded Stiffenings, W. H. Itussell, President ; L. B. 
Kussell, Treasurer; No. 96V< Summer Street— This success- 
ful, reliable and representative company was duly incor- 
porated in 1S87 under the laws of Maine, with ample capital, and 
now carries on a trade which extends throughout the entire United 
states and Canada. This business was originally founded eighteen 
years ago by Mr. L. B. Russell, who conducted it Willi great suc- 
cess, till it was incorporated, as the Russell Counter Company 




The company's factory is at Woburn, and comprises twelve 
spacious buildings, which have an area of an acre. The various 
departments are fully supplied with the latest improved ma- 
chinery and appliances, necessary for the systematic and success- 
ful prosecution of the business. Here 100 operatives are employed, 
and the maeliinery is driven by steam power. The vvaterprool 
moulded slilti'uings manufactured by the Russell Counter Com. 
pany are unrivalled for durability, quality, strength and excel 
lence, and have no superiors in this or any other market. All 
orders are promptly and carefully filled, and all goods are fully 
warranted to be exactly as represented. 

E& A. H. BATCHELLER & CO., Manufacturer of Boots and 
Shoes ; Office No. 106 Summer Street.— Boston has long been 
J noted as being the leading centre of the wholesale boot 
and shoe trade of the United States, while the command 
of Large capital, coupled with the well-known energy and enter- 
prise of the representative members of this growing industry, lias 
permanently retained the supremacy. Prominent among the 
largest and most progressive houses, that give time and character 
to this trade, is that of Messrs. E. & A. I-L Batcheller & Co., whose 
office and sample rooms are located at No. lOG Summer Street. 
This extensive business was established sixty years ago by 
Messrs. Tyler & Ezra Batcheller, who were eventually succeeded 
in 1862 by Messrs. E. & A. H. Batcheller & Co. Mr. E. Batcheller 
died in 1870, and the business is now the property of Mr. A. H. 
Batcheller, who has latterly admitted his son, Mr. Francis Batch- 
eller, into partnership. Both partners are able and experienced 
.shoe manufacturers, fully conversant with every detail and fea- 
ture of this valuable industry, and the requirements of jobbers, 
retailers and the general public. The firm's manufactory, which 
is one of the largest and best equipped in America, and furnishes 
constant employment to over 1,200 operatives, is situated at North 
lirookfield, Mass. Messrs E. & A. H. Batcheller & Co., manufac- 
ture extensively brogans, mens', youths' and boys' heavy boots 
and shoes. Their goods are unrivalled for quality, durability, fin- 
ish and workmanship and have no superiors in this or any other 
market, while their prices in all cases necessarily attract the at- 
tention of careful and close buyers. The business of this success- 
ful and popular house, which is strictly wholesale, extends through- 
out all sections of the United States and Canada. Messrs. A. H. 
and Francis' Batcliellor are both natives of Massachusetts. They 
are higlily esteemed in trade circles for their skill and just meth- 
ods, and have built up a business and reputation alike creditable 
to tlieir industry, energy and enterprise. 



HCRIXE, Imijorter and Manufacturer of Fine Fur Garments, 
Tiinimings & Robes, Nos 1.5 and 17 Avon Street.— The 
I, keen, intelligent public of Boston, and adjoining towns 
and cities, are quick to perceive and prompt to patronize 
that tradesman who, by the exercise of skilled experience, sound 
judgment and untiring industry, facilitates the securing of the 
choicest honestly-made goods at the lowest prices. In the fore- 
most rank of manufacturing furriers, is Mr. H. Crine, of Nos. 15 and 
17 Avon Street, to whom the above remarks strictly apply. His 
has been a success achieved in the face of extreme competition, 
and one all the more creditable because, in every case, for every 
garment turned outliy him the public h.is gotthe full worth of its 
money. Mr. Crine was born in Germany, and came to New York 
in 1857, establisliing business there tlie following year. Subse- 
quently he removed to Georgia, where he enlisted in the 2d Geor- 
gia Rifles, serving three and one-half years, and was a portion of 
the time interpreter at the liead«iuarters of the Army of the Ten- 
nessee. After the war he returned to New York and resumed 
business, and in 1865 settled in this city. Here he occupies a 
spacious and eleg.ant store, situated in a business portion of the 
city, absolutely central, and convenient alike to the elite of the 
city and hotel sojourners. The results have been what might be 
expected, when we consider the sound judgment of the jiroprietor 
and his determination to excel all competition in this direction of 
tr.ade. As an extensive importer and manufacturer of fine fur 
■ garments, tiinimings and robes, Mr. Urine is now fast controlling 
the best American trade. As he selects his skins with the utmost 
care, the public can rely on securing here the finest sealskin 
j.ickets, dolmans, paletots and fur trimmings of all kinds in his 
showrooms, quoted at prices which cannot be duplicated else- 
where. Making a specialty of the richestseal and fur garments in 
all standard lengths, we would cordially recommend the public to 
inspect this splendid stock and get quotations before purchasing 
elsewhere. The elaborate finish, the perfect cut and symmetry of 
all Mr. Crine's work has become justly celebrated, conlirniing the 
general belief that merit tells, while Mr. Crine is inspired with'the 
laudable ambition to give the best value of any manufacturing 
furrier in America. 

J P. T. PERCIVAL, City Hall Pharmacy, No. S.'i School Street 
Cor. City Hall Avenue.— No department of business in Bos- 
ton is of more direct value and importance to the commu- 
nity at large than that in which the practical pharmacist 
brings to bear his professional skill and experience. In this con- 
nection special attention is directed to the establishment known 
as the City Hall Pharmacy, and conducted for so many years by 
Mr. .1. P. T. Percival, at No. 35 School Street, corner of City Hall 
Avenue. This house has been in existence for a iieriod of sixty 
years, the present proprietor succeeding to the control upward 
of twenty years ago. The store is located in anew and spacious 
building, and is one of the most attractive features of this busy and 
nmch-frequented thoroughfare. Here is always to be found a 
complete stock of pure fresh drugs and chemicals, all the reliable 
and standard medicines and family remedies, , and the latest nov- 
elties in perfumery, toilet articles and fancy goods of both domes- 
tic and foreign production. The goods are selected with scrupu- 
lous care and experienced judgment, and can be relied upon as 
the best that the market affords. The prescription department is 
perfect in every particular, being fully .supplied with the latest im- 
proved apparatus and appliances known to this important branch, 
and is presided over by Mr. A. K. Tilden and a corps of expert 
pharmacists, whose experience and ability thoroughly qualify 
them for compounding physicians'prescriptionsand family recipes 
in a careful and accurate manner. This house al.so handles the 
following preparations as specialties, viz: nerve tonic, cream of 
roses, glycerine lotion, tooth powder, extract ginger, Dr. Clarke's 
cough mixture, sarsaparilla, tomato bitters and calisaya bark- 
Any articles bearing the name of this house ,ire invariably 
accepted by the profession and the public as thoroughly genuine, 
posessing all the qualities cLainied for them by the manuf.actu- 
rers. All orders are given prompt attention, and the wants of all 
classes of patrons are ministered to with eminent success and 
satisfaction. Mr. Percival is a native of Hanover, Mass., and 
known and honored in this city as an .accomplished pharmacist 
and a tlioroughly responsible and representative business m.an. 



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DIAMOND CUTTING.— The art oj cutting diamonds originated 
in Asia at a very early period, but was first introduced into 
Europe about the middle o£ the 15th century, tlie famous 
Sanci diamond supposed to have been tlie first one cut' 
The process was slow and tedious, being entirely done by Iiand. 
The Kegent or Pitt diamond required two years for its com- 
pletion. For many years diamonds were imperfectly cut, and 
the worlc was done almost entirely in Amsterdam. It was re- 
served for Boston to sliow tlie civilized world to what perfec- 
tion this most beautiful of all precious stones could be brouglit. 
In 1860 Mr. Henry D. Horse opened a small diamond-cut- 
ting factory, employing foreign help. He early conceived 
the idea of teaching Americans, but tlie secret of liow the worii 
was accomplislied was jealously guarded by tliose possessing it. 
Mr Morse, however, determined to wrest tlie coveted linowledge 
Irom tliem, and in order to do so, overcame what would have been 
to most men insurmountable oUstacles. After long and careful 
examination of the vvorls, he solved the theory by wliicli it was 
done, and fitting up a place outside liis factory, commenced putting 
the tlieory into practice. Several liouis each day were spent by 
him in his worlsshop, and wlien he came to a part tliat baffled his 
efforts, he paid a visit to his workmen, and wliile engaging them in 
conversation, carefully observed by what means the desired end 
was reached. He then retired to his shop and practiced what he 
had seen, until after a great amount of labor and perseverance 
he was able to completely polisli a diamond. When it is con- 
sidered that in a perfectly cut stone there are fifty-eight dis- 
tinct facets, each with a different grain, and that it is impossible to 
polish a facet except witli the grain, some faint idea may be ob- 
tained of tlie difliculties, under which he labored. A man of Mr. 
Morse's genius was not likely to stop here, and he immediately 
went to work to improve the art in every possible way. He im- 
proved tlie machines then in use, invented a cutting machine, also 
a gauge todetermine the angles giving the greatest refractivepower 
clearly demonstrating tiiat diamonds could be cut by a system 
based on scientific principles. Upon learning tliat Mr. Morse was 
teaching Americans, hisworknien left him and started in business 
for themselves. They engaged Mr. J. B. Humphrey to build their 
machines and fit up their factory. The new firm was not very pros- 
perous. In a short time one of the partners fled to Europe with the 
diamonds, leaving tlie other witli only tools and inacliiiiery. Mr. 
Humphrey, wlio had gained some insight into the business went to 
tlie deserted partner offering to furnish money and start tlie busi- 
ness anew. Tiie offer was accepted, but in a sliort time, the Dutch- 
man found tliat he would be expected to teacli Americans. This he 
refused to do and tlie partnersliip was dissolved. Mr. Humphrey 
viAS thus left with a factory on liis hands, but no workmen, nor 
could he hire any. But again •' Yankee " pluck and intelligence 
came to tlie rescue, and after four years of hard labor and indomit- 
able perseverance, he was acknowledged, with the exception of 
Mr. Morse, tlie finest diamond cutter in the world. The cleav- 
ing of diamonds is by tar tlie most difticult part of tiie whole 
operation, requiring superior judgment and very careful manip- 
ulation. Indeed there are but three or four cleavers in tliis 
country. In this department, however, Mr. Humphrey has also 
been very successful. About this time Randel, Baremore & Bil- 
lings of N. Y., offered him such fl.attering inducements to come 
tliere and start a factory for them, that he did so, remaining in 
tlieir employ nearly two years. After the decease of Mr. Morse he 
purchased the tools and machines left by him, returned to Boston 
and again engaged in business for himself. Wlien people began to 
realize how tlie value and beauty of a diamond were enhanced by 
superior cutting, a great demand for Boston cut diamonds sprang up 
and Mr. Humphrey is constantly in receipt of stones to be recut 
from many parts of the United States, many of them being lieir- 
looms of more than a local reputation. He is also largely engaged 
in cutting stones from the rough and is one of tlie largest importers, 
making repeiited trips to Europe mi order to personally select his 
stock, which lie always keeps full and complete. The polishing of 
a diamond must necessarily be interesting to the artisan. He 
sees the dull pebbly-looking stone gradually change to a sparkling 
gem, and feels that here is something over which time has no 
power, but may be enjoyed by geueration after generation for 
thousands of years, and still shine with the same brilliancy as 
when it first left liis hands. 



A P. FI.SHER & CO., Brokers in Grain, Stock and Petroleum, 
— Nos. 28 and 29 Equitable Building, No. 150 Devonshire 
I Street.— There is no more important interest to the finan- 
cial and mercantile community tlian that controlled by 
the several stocli exchanges of the country. New York, with its 
vast interests in railroads, steamship line,?, produce and oil, daily 
transacts an amount of business without parallel in the history of 
tiie country. Among the members of tlie New York Consolidated 
Stock and Petroleum Exchange engaged in business in Boston Is 
the firm of Messrs. A. P. Fisher & Co., who occupy eligible offices 
at Nos. 28 and 29 Equitable Building. This firm are brokers in 
grain, stock and petroleum, having some tliirty branches tlirough- 
out New England, and correspondents in New York and Cliicagc. 
Tiie business was originally established in 1883 by Messrs. C. J. 
Fisher & Co. in New York city, and was removed to Boston in Decem- 
ber, 1886, the present firm succeeding to the control in 1888. Thf 
f.acilities here possessed for covering every branch of the business 
are unsurpassed. This firm are perfectly prepared for the purchase 
and sale of all kinds of railroad and mining stocks, bonds and in- 
vestment securities, either for cash or on a margin on commis- 
sion. Orders are made at once and transfers executed, together 
with all business of this nature, as readily as could be done by 
personal attendance at tiie Exchange. Orders for tiie purchase or 
sale of stocks, grain, provisions and petroleum are filled on mar- 
gins of from one per cent, upward. The members of the firm give 
their personal attention to every item of business that passes 
througli their offlce, and the accuracy with which they estimate 
tlie value of the viirious securities has given them a distinction 
that has merited the confidence of an extensive and influential cli- 
entele, and given them a high reputation as financiers. As all 
business entrusted to tliem is dealt with promptly and in a man- 
ner which secures the greatest possible advantage to customers, 
their ollices are a favorite resort for investors. In this system of 
business, losses are limited to the amount of margin deposited, 
while profits are unlimited. Their otfices are open alike to the 
man of wealth and to those of limited means, and each receives the 
same consideration at tlie hands of the firm. Full quotations of the 
different markets are received, as well as tiie current gossip of 
Wall street and Chicago, and all sources of information are 
searcued as a guide to the market. The members of this firm are 
Messrs. A. P. Fisher, F. R. Tibbitts and L. B. Smith, all practical 
and expert brokers, of high repute in financial circles. 

WEMYSS CONCERT COMPANY', of Boston, Mr. Alex. J. 
Wemyss, Manager, Offlce No. 82 Canal Street.— The peo- 
ple of the country are naturally fond of amusements 
and appreciate high class talent and liberally support 
it. Such being the fact it is only natural that there sliould be 
many concert companies and troupes of acknowledged abilities to 
furnish the entertainment demanded. Among these companies 
one of the best known hailing from Boston is that of the Wemyss 
Concert Company, of which Mr. Alex. J. Wemyss, is manager. 
This company has been before the public several years, and pre- 
sents talent of acknowledged ability, recognized in their special 
fortes, the best in the country, all of whom have established repu- 
tations at home and abroad as artists of ability and worth. The 
personnel of the company comprises Miss Nellie Salome Thomas, 
soprano; Mrs. S. Wemyss Bradbury, reader ; Miss Fannie Pack- 
ard Hoyt, violinist; Mr. Percy J. J. Cooper, late leading tenor oi 
the C. D. Hess and Nuendorfl (irand Opera Company, soloist ; Mrs. 
Alex. J. Wemyss, pianoist and accompanist, .and Mr. Alex. J. 
W'eniyss, humorist, whose comic songs and droll sayings are one ot 
the features of the entertainments. The programme offered Is 
always varied and well arranged, and wherever the company ap- 
pears a large and appreciative audience greet the members, and 
as their repertoire is very extensive the efforts of the artists arc 
sure to give pleasure and satisfaction. Lodges and societies de- 
siring to furnish first-class entertainments for their friends should 
confer with Mr. Alex. J. Wemyss, the manager, whose office is at 
No. 82 Canal Street. Mr. Wemyss is a young man, an accomplished 
musici.an and humorist and is recognized as one of the best in the 
country. The Wemyss Concert Company is liighly endorsed by 
the press and comniPiulcd by all who li.ave had the pleasure of at- 
tending tlie unexcelled entertainments given by the celebrated 
artists composing it. 



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FRINK & HAYES, Contractors and Builders of Gas and Water 
Works, No. 19 Exchange Place, Room 15. — One of the repre 
sent.itive lirnis of this city, and one controlling a vast busi- 
ness, is that of Messrs. Frink and Hayes, the well-known 
contractors and builders of gas and water works, who occupy elig- 
ibly located offices at No. 19 Exchange Place. The copartners are 
Messrs. \V. B. Frink and A. \V. Hayes, both young men of vast prac- 
tical experience in their business, and of excellent standing in this 
city. Mr. Frink was born in New Hampshire, and came to Boston 
in 1871, has had an experience of twenty years in the gas works 
line, and is thoroughly versed in all the details and requirements 
of the business. Mr. Hayes is a native of the state of Maine, and 
has resided in Boston for tlie past eighteen years. This firm under- 
take contr.acts for supplying entire plants for gas or water works 
in towns, villages and cities, and their services are in constant 
and influential demand throughout New England. They have 
supplied (he towns of Franklin, N. H , Pittsfleld, N. H., Farming- 
ton, N. H., and Stoiigliton, Mass., and in every case their work is of 
a substantial, permanent and praiseworthy character, forming 
their best possible recommendation to popular favor and public 
patronage. Oil g.as has a higher illuminating power than any 
other known substance with one exception (electricity) and con- 
tains no impurities such as sulphur, carbonic .acid, carbonic ox- 
ide, ammonia, etc., and therefore does not require any purifica 
tion. The gas is produced by the process known as destructive 
distillation, the oil being introduced into iron retorts five inches 
in diameter and heated a little above a cherry red heat, each re- 
tort contains a current breaking cylinder of wrought or cast 
iron, having its ends conical or pointed, and having set tliere in a 
series of radially projecting pins extending to the inner periphery 
of the inclosing retort or pipe, said pins being so set in said cylin- 
der as to present effective obstacles to a direct flow of the current 
of oil through said retort, thereby converting every particle of oil 
into gas. After the oil has been converted into gas in the retort 
it passes through a water seal and then through eight scrubbers, 
which divests the gas of aqueous vapors and tarry matters if any, 
and from tlie scrubbers the gas passes into the gas holder and 
is distributed through the mains. The retorts may be heated 
with coke, soft coal or wood. Gas plants are supplied by this firm 
for this givs, and the following is a list of testimonials as togas 
plants erected under their supervision. "Farmington, N. H., May 
12. 1888. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that I am a 
consumer of oil giis made by the Farmington Gas Light Company, 
and find that the light is of a superior character and costs to con- 
sumers moderate, ft is used in factories, shops, houses, and for 
streets in this town, and gives perfect satisfaction as I believe gen- 
erally. Respectfully, F. G. Tebbets & Co., merchants, and one of 
board of selectmen." " Farmington, N. H., May 12, 1888. To whom 
it may concern : This is tocertify that I am aeonsunier of oil gas made 
by the Farmington Gas Light Company, and find that the light is of a 
superior character and cost to consumer moderate. It is used in 
factories, shops, houses, and for streets In this town, and gives 
perfect satisfaction to tlie best of my knowledge. Respectfully, 
Ch.as. W. Talpey, Treas. Farmington Savings Bank." The sup- 
plies handled and furnished by this firm have a national reputa- 
tion for solidity, durability, and perfection of operation, while 
all contracts are finished in a thorough, workmanlike manner, 
reflecting the highest credit upon the skill, ability and care of 
the contractors. Estimates and terms are promptly furnished, and 
tlie firm are in a position to defy competition and to place all 
transactions upon a sound and substantial footing. 

ALLAN LINE OF ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, H. & A. 
Allan, Agents, Company's Wharf, Pier 6, Hoosac Tunnel 
Docks; Offices, No. 80 State Street. -The fame of the Allan 
Line of Royal Mail Line of steamships is world wide. The 
pioneer in opening regular steam communication between the St. 
Lawrence and England, it has materially contributed to develop 
the foreign commerce and prosperity of Boston and Portland, Me. 
As early as 1813, the company ran several of theirsteamships to 
Boston, whose unrivalled through transportation f.icilities from 
the west enabled cargoes to be laid down to a direct advantage 
over New York. The trade steadily enlarged, and in 1880 the Bos- 
ton agency was duly established by Messrs. H. & A. Allan. The 
company is the one running a direct line on the important route 



from Glasgow, Derry and Galway to Boston direct and it is of great 
importance to passengers to and from the west of Ireland and to 
and from Scotland that this line of Srst cl.ass steamships include 
this among their other routes. The full list is as follows: Liver 
pool and Quebec Service via Londonderry; Liverpool and Balti- 
more Service via Queenstown, calling at St. Johns and H.alifaxi 
Glasgow and Philadelphia service, via Londonderry and Galway ; 
Glasgow, Quebec and Montreal service : London, Quebec and Mon- 
treal service, and the one before mentioned from Glasgow to this 
city. To fully meet the requirements of this list of routes, the 
company has a fleet of twenty-nine of the finest steamships afloat, 
all specially constructed for the North Atlantic trade, having water 
tight compartments, fitted uji in the most admirable manner with 
all modern improvements, and unsurpassed for strength, speed 
and comfort. The line h.as become the most famous for quick pas- 
sengerservice of any on the Atlantic, making the trip from land to 
land in five days, the distance from Quebec to Liverpool is 500 miles 
shorter than from New York, while for 1,000 miles, the steamships 
pursue their course througli the magnificent scenery of tlie lower 
St. Lawrence, undisturbed by the roughness of the ocean and 
enabling the passengers to avoid seasickness and enjoy the varied 
beauties of tlie trip. This is the favorite route both with tourists 
and with business men. The fares are as low as by any other first- 
class line, while the accommodations are unsurpassed. The line is 
celebrated for liberality of management while the ships are under 
the command of experienced officers who enforce the strictest dis- 
cipline. Excursion tickets for first-class passage are sold from 
Boston for from $90 to $150, single cabin passages ranging from $50 
to 880. Intermediate and steerage tickets are sold at very low 
rates. This is the route for steerage passengers, they have super- 
ior accommod.ations, and the best and most liberal of treatment. 
The wants of female passengers .and of children are attended to by 
stewardesses, and in many other ways, this line's steerage is the 
best equipped of any in the Transatlantic service. The Allan 
Line is the popular one in New England. In winter its ships sail 
from Portland, and in summer the rail trip to Quebec is a sliort 
and pleasant one. In every way the Line is worthy of the patron- 
age of the public, and the residents of Boston and New England 
can obtain full particulars by calling at or communicating with 
the agents, Messrs. H. & A. Allan at their offices. No. 80 State 
Street, where Mr. John Bridgewater is the manager in charge of 
the passenger department, who has had lengthy experience in rep- 
resenting tlie .\llan Line, 

BAY ST.A.TE HOUSE. George Q. Pattee, Proprietor; No. 382 
Hanover Street.— When visiting Boston we would recom- 
mend the traveling public to stop at the old established 
and popular B,ay State House in Hanover Street. It is now 
under new and energetic management and is conducted upon the 
most approved principles and liberal methods. The house was 
first opened about thirty years, and after various changes of pro- 
prietorship, in October, 1887, passed into the hands of Mr. George 
Q. Pattee, one of the most widely and favorably known of Boston 
hotel men, and who w.as formerly clerk of the St. Nicholas House, 
Province Court. He lias refurnislied and renovated the Bay State 
House throughout, enforces a thorough system of organization 
and gives that close personal supervision so gratifying to the pat- 
rons of a hotel. The house has an excellent location in Hanover 
Street, and is a substantiiil brick building, four stories in height, 
and 50x175 feet in dimensions. All the modern improvements 
have been introduced, including gas, steam heat, electric bells, 
etc. On the first floor is the h.andsome office, and a spacious and 
well arranged dining room; on the second floor are the parlors, 
furnished in modern style. There 106 single and double rooms for 
guests, light, airy and most comfortably furnished, in a complete 
manner that invari.ably gratifies the p.atrons of the house, and 
whose interests are so carefully looked after by Mr. Pattee and 
his popular clerk, Mr. Frank Haidensett. The Bay State House is 
conducted on the popular American plan, rooms ranging in price 
from fifty cents to ?1 00 per day ; board SL-SO upwards per day. Mr. 
Pattee is noted for bis excellent table. He is a liberal purveyor, 
and all the delicacies of the season are served here in the best 
style, the kitchen being in cluarge of a competent cook and staff of 
assistants, while the attendance at table is polite and prompt 
in every particular. 



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AMERICAN FIBE ALARM COMPANY, C. F. Blackwell, Presi- 
dent. J. D. Dexter, Treasurer, No. 71 Kilby Street, Factory 
No. 370 Atlantic Avenue.— Tills is empliatically an era of 
inogress, on every hand the ingenious Urain of tlie inventor 
is constantly at work, and many of our most useful contrivances 
.and discoveries are but a few years old. In this connection, special 
reference is made in this commercial review of Boston, to tlie 
representative and reliable American Fire Alarm Company, whose 
offices are located at No. 71 Kilby Street, Factory No. 370 Atlantic 
Avenue. This company was duly incorporated in 1881,under the laws 
of Maine, with a paid-up capital of $30,000. It has latterly purchased 
all the patent rights and business for the New England States, of 
the American Automatic Fire Alarm Associ.ation, consequently .all 
correspondence relative to business in said territory, must be di- 
rected to the offices of the American Fire Alarm Company. The 
comp.any's chief executive officers, who are highly esteemed by the 
community for their enterprise, skill and integrity are as follows: 
C. F. Blackwell, president ; J. D. Dexter, treasurer ; A. D. Wlieeler, 
snpt. The system of automatic fire alarm, as now carried out by 
this responsible company has been in practical operation in New 
England for sever.al years. It has full approval of the various in- 
surance companies, for wliich they grant a substantial reduction 
in rates, and is accepted by them as fully equivalent to watchmen 
and electric clocks. BrieHy stated the system is as follows: Ther- 
mostats set to give an alarm of fire on the temperature in the room 
or factory rising thirty degrees above the normal heat of the room, 
are placed fifteen feet apart on the ceilings, and in all closets and 
concealed spaces, throughout the building. These sensitive ther- 
mostats are connected by wires to an iron case annunciator or in- 
dicator, located on outside of building, which indicates the loca- 
tion of an alarm, by floors or other divisions that may be neces- 
sary to promptly locate a fire. These wires and thermostats are 
also connected to a gong on the outside of the building, also to one 
in the fire engine house, or in places remote from the fire depart- 
ment, two gongs are placed in two different houses adjacent to the 
premises protected. These gongs ring continually in case of fire. 
In order that the system may always be in perfect working order, 
and that owners and insurance comiianies may be certain of the 
fact, a recording testing instrument is placed in the office, from 
which perforated records must be taken daily of the condition of 
the entire system. These dials are d.ated and kept for reference. 
In making this test tlie batteries, instruments, gongs, and every 
inch of wire is used; .any disarrangement will show the location of 
trouble on the dial. The batteries used are simple and durable and 
will last for years. The work is done by contract, and prices vary, 
according to size and location of factory or building, from 8300 and 
upwards. The following is a parti.al list of parties, using this un- 
rivalled fire alarm: New York and New England R. R., Boston 
stor.age warehouse, Boston art museum. Masonic Temple, Steamer 
Bristol, Fall River Line, Steamer Puritan, Fall River Line. Steamer 
Pilgrim, Fall River Line, Boston, Mass. ; Eaton & Terry, Emerson 
Weeks & Co., F. E. White, H. T. Marshall, James Means. Charles 
Howard & Co., George G. Snow. I. A. Seals, Burt & Packard, Lilly, 
Brackett & Co., Brockton, M,ass.; Gardner Brothers. John Pilling, 
Goodrich & Porter, Griffin Brothers, Gage & Johnson, Fist National 
Bank, W. F. Endicott, Charles W. Arnold, Sanders Leather Com- 
pany, Perley A. Stone, Field, Th.ayer & Co., Johnson & Farrar, W. 
F. ,& J. A. Blake, Haverhill, Mass. : Bradford Academy, Bradford. 
M.ass. ; E. T. Smith & Co., Worcester, M. C. Dizer & Co., East Wey- 
mouth, Cluarles E. Tucker, Abington, Strauss & Kinsley, Braintree, 
French & Hall, Brocton, Geo. H. Burt & Co., Brookfield, M. F. 
Thomas, Campello, Churchill & Alden, Campello, Rugg Building, 
Haverhill, Mass. and C. B. Lancaster & Co, Barnstead, N. H. 

BAY STATE BOILER COMPOUND COMPANY, Manufac- 
turers of Bay State Boiler Compound, Etc., E. P. Parsons, 
President : H. T. Crocker, General Manager ; No. 31 Doane 
Street.— A representative and successful concern in Boston 
actively engaged in the manufacture of Bay State Boiler Com- 
pound, is th.at known as the Bay State Boiler Compound Company, 
whose offices are located at No. 31 Doane Street. This business 
was established in 1885 by Bradshaw, Crocker & Co., and eventu- 
ally was duly incorporated under the laws of Maine in 1887 with a 
capital of $80,000, of which $60,000 is paid up. The officers of the 
company are : E. P. Parsons, president ; E, H. Bradshaw, treasurer; 



H. T. Brocker, general manager. The company's factory, which 
is well equipped, is situated at Cambridge. The company niaiiu- 
faetures the famous Bay State Boiler Compound, and deals in oils 
and all kinds of mill and engineers' supplies. They are likewise 
sales' agents for Mayall's improved packing, .and tne Ellis cylinder 
oil cup. The B.ay State Compound is unrivalled for utility, relia- 
bility and efficiency, and is a general favorite with owners of 
steam boilers, wherever Introduced The compound is of a soft, 
mild nature, enters into, softens and goes with the steam through- 
out the interior of the boilers and all their connecting pipes, pre- 
serving the iron by preventing pitting and corrosion, so common 
to the interior of boilers and pipes. Among the first good results 
shown will be the softening of incrustation and corrosion, which 
collects on joints and gauge-cocks. Although it will finally remove 
all scales, incrustation and rust from interior of boilers and pipes, 
it is not a quick process, and takesaboutsix weeks to show decided 
results. Compounds that are sold with results to be shown in 
from one to three weeks are very liable to contain .acids which 
will have an injurious effect on the iron It being made from veg- 
etable products, it will not gum or stop up gauge-glasses or valves, 
and hiis no injurious effect on dyes, beers, ales or foods. To par- 
ties who have never given the matter much thought, we will say. it 
is an established fact, the conducting power of iron is from a to 40 
times that of scale, according to the nature of the scale ; thus, if a 
boiler has about an average thickness of 1-20 of an inch scale, it is 
equivalent to from 1 to 1'4 inches of iron to be heated In addition 
to the thickness of sheets tubes and flues. This being the case, it 
will be easily seen th.at a large amount of fuel must be wasted in 
keeping steam up to the desired pressure; if the boilers were per- 
fectly clean this could be easily att.ained. Inasmuch as the com- 
pany does not claim everything, to parties wishing clean boilers 
and free connecting pipes, it can show a vast amount of good done 
and also a large amount of repairs, labor and fuel saved. The 
company hereby claims for the Bay State Compound: 1. It is a 
preservative of iron 2. It can be adapted to any water used for 
steaming. 3 It will save fuel. 4. It will save labor and repairs. 
5 It will save blisters, ruptures and explosions. The Compound 
is put up in barrels, half and quarter barrel packages. The trade 
of the company is steadily increasing in all sections of the United 
States and Canada. Tlie officers are greatly respected for their 
enterprise and integrity in trade circles. 

MERCHANDISE NATIONAL BANK. Offices- Mason Build- 
ing, No. 70 Kilby Streek— One of Boston's representa- 
tive financial Institutions is the popular Merchandise 
National Bank. It was duly organized in IS"."! in response 
to the pressing demands of leading mercantile circles for enlarged 
facilities, and its capital stock of $500,000 was quickly taken by 
leading capitalists and business men. Their judgment proved 
correct, for the bank has proved a lieavy dividend payer, doing 
such a large and prosperous business, and maintaining its stock 
away above par. The directors include Mr. J. G. Whitney, the 
president; Mr. A. H. Ev.ans. president of the Five Cent Savings 
Bank; Mr. Nath. F. Tenney retired; Mr. Silas Potter, retired; Mr. 
Natli. P. Hamlin, commission merchant, and Mr. Thomas Apple- 
ton, cotton buyer. A more representative list could not have been 
gathered together, these gentlemen's names being synonymous 
with stability and integrity. Mr. J, G. Whitney has retained the 
presidency since the bank's inception. He Is a member of the old 
and representative house of J. Whitney Brothers, importers, and 
is a recognized exponent of those great cardinal principles, which 
underlie the fabric of the commercial world. Mr. Whitney pos 
sesses marked executive .abilities and regularly and readily dis 
charges a multiplicity of duties that would prove a heavy burden 
to many. He is a director of the Mercantile & M.anufacturers In- 
surance Co. ; of the China Insurance Company. ; and of the Boyls- 
ton Insurance Company. Under his sound practical guidance the 
Merchandise National Bank is one of the most popular in Boston. 
He has appreciated support from the cashier, Mr. Charles H. Kil- 
ham. who has been with the bank since it first opened, and as an 
able and clear headed financier. Tlie bank transacts a general 
business. It is a favorite depository with merchants and has on 
its ledgers the n.ames of the most eminent houses of Boston and 
New England and with its capital of $500,000 and large reserve 
funds, the bank has a handsome surplus of $38,000. 



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AT. THOMPSON & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in 
Stereoptieons, Lenses, Photographic Slides, Etc., No. 13 
Treniont Row.— There is probably not one among the 
many novel and ingenious devices combining the features 
of utility. Instruction and amusement th,at have taken a firnierhold 
on popular favor than the stereopticon. And this is true alike as 
to its application as an effective adverti.sing medium, in street dis- 
play, as an .adjunct to the lecture pl.atforni, or stage effects. Keep- 
ing pace with tlie march of progress in science and art, very marked 
improvement has been effected in these interesting and useful de- 
vices of late, a degree of excellence clo.sely akin to perfection itself 
having been attained in the articles mentioned by some makers, 
and among those can be named a. T. Tliompson & Co., manufaet- 
tu'ers of and dealers in stereoptieons, lenses, photographic slides, 
etc.. No. 13 Treniont Kow, this c.ty, whose productions are articles 




of excel t I 1 el t I i ^ I o I e e I e a w 1 1 i ^1 ^^ 

ing demand in the trade thioughcut the entire countiv Tlie tlec 
11 ic-light sttreopticon (which is the leading specialtj ,) patented and 
made only by tliis firm, is by common consent the most effective, 
perfect and altogetlier superior device ever invented as is amply 
attested by the extensive sale it is meeting with all over the United 
States. Mr. Thompson is a in.anof practical skill and ingenuityy, 
of long and varied experience in this line, and is tliorouglily con- 
versant with the business in all its branches. He established this 
flourishing business in 1871, .and from the first has been signally suc- 
cessful in his enterprise. The premisesoccupied at No. 13Treinont 
Row include a neat. compact office and salesroom on tliird floor, with 
commodious, well equiiiped factory on fourth floor, while some 
twenty expert hands are employed. The Ann manufactures and 
deals in stereoptieons of every description, lenses, photographic 
slides and kindred articles, and also makes slides to order in the 
most prompt and excellent manner, while lectures are illustrated 
likewise in llrst-class style, at reasonable rates. 

ERNEST F. STEVENS, Artistic Photography, No. 22 Treniont 
Row,— Tlie reliable and popular photographer, Mr. Ernest 
F. Stevens, although a young man has had quite an ex- 
tended experience in the profession, and li.as achieved .an 
enviable reputation as an artist of undoubted skill and ability. 
For .about six months he was a member of the firm of Stevens & 
Read whom he succeeded in November last and has since con- 
tinued the business with marked success, enlarged the facilities 
and materially added to the reputation of the studio by the su- 
perior excellence of his artistic work. The reception parlors 



which are handsomely furnished occupying the third floor, and the 
operating room the fourth. In this latter department every mod- 
ern appliance and improved apparatus known to the business is 
provided, and the best means are utilized for producing fine work 
in portraiture and beautiful effects. Two experienced operators 
are employed, and artistic photography in .all its branches is exe- 
cuted with marvelous skill and exactitude. Fine portraits are 
executed with skill .and finished in oil, water colors, pastile, etc. 

THE BARBODR BROTHERS COMPANY, Flax Thread Spin- 
ners; Works, Paterson, N. J., Boston Office, No. 21 High 
Street, F. G. King, Manager.— Boston h.as long been noted 

as the centre of the wholesale flax thread trade of New Eng- 
land, while the energy, skill and ability ot the prominent mer- 
chants engaged in tills industry are recognized throughout the 
length and breadth of the United States. Of such firms it 
is not necessary to speak any words of praise; their very 
existence is emph.atic evidence of the honorable position 
they occupy in the commercial world, and the long course 
of just dealing they have pursued. Such a house is tliat 
known as the Barbour Brothers Company, flax thread spin- 
ners, whose extensive works are located at Paterson, N. J. 
The company's Boston office and s.aIesroonis, which is under 
tlie able and careful management of Mr. F. G. King, is 
situated at No. 21 High Street. This business was es- 
tablished 105 years ago in Ireland, and the Boston office 
was opened in 1876. In Ireland tlie firm own and operate 
the extensive Hilden Thread Works, Lisburn, wliicli is car- 
ried on by Messrs. William Barbour & Sons. In their fac- 
tories at Paterson, N. J., and Lisburn, Ireland, andlOttensen, 
Germany, the firm employ 5,500 oper.atives, and their tr.ade 
extends to all parts of the civilized world. The Barbour 
Brothers Company manufacture iu vast quantities all kinds 
of linen thread for hand work and manufacturing purposes. 
Their goods have a world-wide reputation, and are unsur- 
p.assedfor finish, strength, reliability and uniform excellence 
by those of any other first-class house in America or Europe, 
while the prices quoted in all cases necessarily attract the 
attention of close and careful buyers. Mr. King promptly 
fills New England trade orders, and guarantees entire satis- 
faction to p.atrons. Having thus briefly sketched the facili- 
ties of this popular and representative company, it only 
remains to be added, that its business has ever been con- 
ducted on the enduring principles of equity, and rel.ations 

once entered into with it are certain to become not only 
pleasant for the time being, but profitable and permanent. 
The headquarters of the Barbour Brothers Company in tlie United 
States isat No. 218 Church Street New York. 

BOSTON PHOTOGRAVURE COMPANY, Fine Art Publishers, 
Etc., No. 27 Boylston Street.— The improvements that have 
been made in the last few years in all that appertains 
to fine art publishing through the gelatine processes, are 
nowhere more noticeable than in the work of the Boston Photo- 
gravure Company. By means of their various photographic 
methods, many of them their own invention, paintings, portraits, 
designs, woodcuts, 'plans, maps, etc., are reproduced with an 
.accuracy which but a few years ago was absolutely impossible, 
even by the hand of the most artistic engravers and etchers. Tills 
artistic industry is well represented by the Boston Photogravun- 
Comp.any, whose offices and workrooms are located at No.27Boyls 
ton Street. This business was originally established in 1885under tin 
title of the Lewis Company.'and under that name reproduced some 
of the best books ever published up to the present day. In 1886 it 
was reorganized with ample capital, and its name changed as at 
present. The establishment is one of the largest in the country, 
and is fully equipped with all the latest improved apparatus and 
appliances. The specialties ot the company are ; gelatine print- 
ing, or phototypes; half-tone engravings, photo-engravings from 
line work or prints, photographs on wood, photo-lithographs, 
as well as designs and drawings of every description. None but 
the most skilful and careful artists and operators are employed, 
and the whole establishment is under the direct and critical super- 
vision of the officers, who have earned a wide reputation among 
the leading publishers and printers for good work. 



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WILLIAM L. LOCKHART, Manufacturer and "Wholesale 
Dealer in Coffins and Caskets and Undertakers'Supplies, 
OfBce, No. 119 Staniford Street.— The largest and most 
reliable establishment in Boston successfully engaged 
In the manufacture and sale of coUins, caskets and undertakers' 
supplies, is that of Jlr. William L. Lockhart, whose wareroonis are 
centrally located at the junction of Causeway, Staniford and Mer- 
limac Streets. The factories, which are fully equipped with all 
modern appliances and machinery, and furnish constant employ- 
ment to 120 skilled operatives, are situated on Bridge Street, East 
Cambridge. Tliis business was established in 1849 by Mr. Lock- 
hart, who has since built up liberal, influential and permanent 
patronage in all sections of the United States and Canada. Mr. 
Lockhart's new warerooms are the largest, finest, best adapted, and 
most completely equipped of any manufacturer of funeral supplies 
in this country. Situated in the business portion of Boston, their 
location is such that they are easily accessible from all parts of 
the city; being within five minutes walk of the Northern and 
Eastern Depots, and ten minutes' car ride of the Southern Depots. 
The building, sixstories in height, at the junction of three streets.is 
a most imposing structure, as it stands towering above its sur- 
roundings. It is most firmly and solidly constructed of brick, red- 
sandstone and iron, and is absolutely fireproof. The interior was 
designed and finished wiih the one idea of making this the model 
funeral furnishing house in America. No pains or expense has 
been spared in any detail. It will be noted, that light is received 
from three sides on account of the triangular shape of the build- 
ing, lighting up the most remote parts of the show rooms. It will 
readily be seen that this abundance of pure light is absolutely 
essential for the proper discrimination of the many different 
shades and qualities of cloths used in the manufacture of the 
widely known caskets and robes manufactured by this house. 
The different floors of the building, each containing about five 
thousand square feet of space, are divided as follows: 
second floor— offices and salesroom and casket hardware de- 
partment; third floor— show rooms; fourth floor— packing 
and shipping; fifth and sixth flours— storage. The second 
floor is occupied by the offlces, salesroom, and casket hardware 
department. The furniture and fittings are in cherry, while the 
walls and ceilings are relieved by frescoing in delicate tints, making 
a rich and artistic eflect throughout. On this floor are shown 
complete lines ofrobes for ladies, gentlemen and children ; casket 
linings of all qualities, samples of all the leading varieties of casket 
handles, shrine plates, thumb screws, society emblems, candela- 
bras. Lockhart's embalming board and instruments, undertakers' 
memorandum books for botli desk and pocket, in fact, every, 
thing of a miscellaneous nature that is required for a funeral di- 
rector's use. The show room occupies the whole of the third floor 
from the street entrance.aud contains upwards of two hundred and 
fifty different and distinct styles of caskets. This room is replete 
with new ideas and ingenious contrivances, adding much to its 
beauty and symmetry. Through the whole length and breadth of 
this vast floor, resting upon gilded frames, may be seen caskets of 
every variety and color, wliile about the sides beneath glass cases 
may be seen many different designs of white broadcloth and plush 
caskets, many with elegant hand-painted and tufted tops. At the 
extreme endof the show room, resting beneath a rich catafalque, 
may be seen one of Lockhart's patent caskets. This casket, which 
may be completely tufted, lets down upon the sides and ends, giv- 
ing the apiiearance of a sofa, when so arranged, thereby relieving 
the sonibreness and box-like effect of the ordinary casket. Here 
may ;ilso be seen casket and floral pedestals of every variety, and 
Italian wheat in all the latest and most appropriate designs. Mr. 
Lockhart is confident that all funeral directors will find this room 
to be the most complete in America. The fourth floor is used as 
the packing and shipping department, while on the fifth andsixth 
floors Mr. L'lckhart carries a complete duplicate line of all his 
goods, so that telegraph or telephone orders may be shipped im- 
mediately on receipt, day or night. It has been ever his desire to 
obtain every facility for the prompt execution of all orders that 
may be entrusted to his care, and he guarantees prompt service in 
all cases. Funeral directors are cordially invited to an early in- 
spection of these plendid warerooms, and to make Mr. Lockhart's 
offlces their headquarters while in the city of Boston. Mr. Lock- 
hart was born in Nova Scotia, but has resided in Boston for the last 



forty-flve years, where he is highly esteemed by the community for 
his enterprise, geniality of disposition and inflexible integrity, and 
is one of our progressive and public-spirited citizens. 

PERRY YARRINGTON & CO., Manufacturers' and Agents, 
Representatives of the -iutomatic Water Gas Company, 
Office, No. 23 Central Street.— A responsible and able mercan- 
tile house of Boston and New England, is that of Messrs. 
Perry Yarrington & Co., who have now been actively engaged in 
business for fifteen years as manufacturers' agents, introducing 
goods and specialties of the most practical, staple value. They are 
now introducing one of the greatest and most generally useful dis- 
coveries of the age, by which every man may have at nominal cost 
in his own house, factory or store, a complete system, safe and re- 
liable for automatically generating the great essential liglit, lieat 
and power. These are all obtained by the introduction of the 
automatic water gas generator, manufactured by Y'arrington's 
patent process, and for which Mr. Yarrington is the owner. 
These generators can be had of all sizes and to suit all require- 
ments, from a portable cylinder with one light attached, upward. 
The product is a hydro-carbon gas. intense in the amount of its 
heat, and the result is the strongest and most brilliant gas light in 
the world. The cost of making this gas is remarkably small, and 
merely nominal in use as compared with coal gas or other forms 
of water gas, being about K less cost for running gas engines, and 
% less for heating purposes. Purity and safety are combined. 
The processes are all chemical and the insurance underwriters 
permit its use in all buildings without extra cliarge for insurance. 
Mr. Yarrington has remarkable and convincing testimonials in his 
possession which will be furnished on application. Mr. F. H. 
Wheeler, Master Mechanic, American Arms Company, Bostoni 
estimated a saving of seventy per cent, cost in running by using 
water gas. Everybody interested should write to Mr. Yarrington 
for full particulars and estimates of cost of generators. He is 
already meeting with a heavy and widely extended demand for 
the new system, and we predict that it will entirely revolutionize 
the existing methods of lighting, heating and securing of gas 
engine motive power. Mr. Y'arrington is a native of Connecticut 
and a prompt honorable business man. 

THE AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Omaha, 
Nebraska, J. F. Rogers, Manager, Eastern Office, No. 101 
Milk Street.— The judicious and safe investment of capital 
is a most important question to the capitalist, as well as 
to the man of moderate means. In all the various openings, 
that present tliemselves for the use of surplus funds, there 
is not one that when prudently and carefully availed of, is 
so safe, sure and remunerative, as the loaning of money on the 
first mortgage security of fertile western farms and city property. 
The superiority of western farm mortgages to most other forms of 
security is readily apparent. The western farmer borrows to ren- 
der his farm more productive; he buys implements and stock, 
builds barns and houses, plants orchards, etc., and thus adds 
greatly to the original security. In the east money borrowed on 
bonds and mortgages, very seldom is expended on the security, 
but goes in some other way. In connection with these remarks, 
we desire to make special reference in this commercial review, to 
the reliable and substantial American Loan and Trust Company 
of Omaha, Nebraska, whose eastern office in Boston is located at 
No. 101 Milk Street. This progressive company was duly incorpo- 
rated under the laws of Nebraska in 1885, and already has ob- 
tained a liberal and influential Ipatronage in the east and west. 
Its paid up capital is $400,000, which has been further augmented 
by a surplus of $42,000. The following gentlemen are the officers: 
O. M. Carter, president; D. D. Cooley, vice-president; Philip 
Potter, secretary ; A. C. Powell, cashier. The American Loan and 
Trust Company deals in six per cent, debenture bonds, and six 
per cent, mortgage loans secured by first lien on improved real 
estate in Nebraska and Northern Kansas. The principal and 
interest due to investors are fully guaranteed, and are paid at any 
local bank in the eastern states. The company has also a savings 
bank department and pays five per cent, interest on deposits com- 
pounded semi-annually. In its loans on improved city and farm 
property, this responsible company loans only to the extent ol 
forty per cent, of a low valuation by reliable experts. 



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A p. MARTIN & CO., Manufacturers and Commission Deal- 
ers in Boots, Shoes and Leatlier ; No. 14 High Street.— 
The name of Martin has for years been honorably identi- 
fled with the Industrial growth and public interests of 
Boston, to such a degree, indeed, as to place the house under 
review in a position far beyond the requirements of any praise 
which the.se pages could bestow. It will be sufficient for our pur- 
pose, therefore, to merely call the attention of the trade to some 
of the advantages an<l benefits accruing from the opening of busi- 
ness relations therewith, together with a brief account of its his- 
tory and present facilities. The business so succe.ssfully eon- 
ducted at the present day under the name and style of A. P. Mar- 
tin & Co., was founded some twenty-five years ago, by Messrs. Fay 
& Stone. The firm name was soon afterwards clianged to Martin, 
Skinner & Fay, which was succeeded by Martin & Skinner, and in 
18SI, Gen. A. P. Martin, the senior member of the firm for some 
years, succeeded to the sole control, and has since continued the 
business under its present firm name, and. by reason of his large 
experience, commanding ability and business integrity, has built 
up a trade of enormous magnitude. The house, under his guiding 
hand, has every essential which can conduce to its permanent 
prosperity and the steady development of a trade national in its 
extent. The firm name is widely prominent as representing the 
extensive manufacture of men's, women's, misses', boys' and chil- 
dren's kip, split, buff and grain polkas and polish boots and shoes. 
The factory is located at Hudson, Mass., and h.as had in the past 
month, a large addition built, and will give constant employment 
to two hundred skilled hands. The success of the house has been 
largely due to the great and systematic care used in every detail of 
manufacture. The goods are not made simply to sell, but, on the 
contrary, with an idea that they are to be worn, and must please 
the consumer. By this course an enviable reputation has been 
gained upon the policy that goods can be made to fit easily and 
still have durability and solid worth. The goods go to all parts of 
the west, south and soutliwest, and create for themselves a perma- 
nent demand wherever once introduced. Hon. Augustus P. Mar- 
tin, tlie honored proprietor, was born in the state of Maine, but 
has resided in Boston since his boyhood. No citizen of the Hub is 
better known to its people or more universally esteemed in both 
public and private life. His record as a city ofticial is one of tlie 
brightest pages in the history of tlie municipality. He was elected 
M.ayor of the city by a spontaneous uprising of the people, at a 
time when his true worth as an executive officer w;v> needed for 
the maintenance of the good name and fame of the city, and nobly 
did he respond to the call. As a soldier he was valiant and brave, 
as a Mayor he won the respect and esteem of all parties and 
classes, and as a manufacturer he stands in the foremost rank of 
the trade. 

NEW ENGLAND STEAM COOPERAGE COMPANY, Manu- 
facturers of Tanks, Casks and Kegs, Office No. 160 State 
Street ; Factory, East Boston.— One of the recently formed 
corporations of Boston, and one of the most vital import- 
ance to her commercial interests is the New England Steam Coop- 
erage Company. It is the outcome of the honored and successful 
career of the old house of Hill & Wright, wholesale coopers of East 
Bost(m. This firm w.as established upwards of tliirty years ago, 
and early took the lead in all those important and extensive lines 
of cooperage for brewers, malters. distillers, sugar houses, ex- 
porters and the trade generally. In January, 1888, the important 
iiiferfsts involved were duly capitalized under the name and style 
"f the New England Steam Cooperage Company, with Mr. Henry B. 
Hill as president, and Mr. William N. Hill as treasurer and mana- 
ger. Both gentlemen bring to bear the widest range of practical 
experience, coupled with connections of the most intluential, wide- 
spreail character. The company under their able and equitable 
executive management has made r.apid progress and has an 
equliunent, and factory at East Boston covering one and a half 
acres fitted up with all the latest improved machinery and ap- 
pliances of all kinds. Here 100 men are employed in the manu- 
facture of ale and beer kegs of all grades. Their facilities are 
unrivalled by any concern in America. Barrels, halves, quarters 
and eighths ; stock and storage casks ; mash and fermenting tubes, 
beer stills, hop jacks ; tanks, cisterns and vats of cedar, cypress, 
pine or oak for brewers, maltsters, distillers, sugar houses, vine- 



gar works, paper mills, chemical works, railroads, etc. Water 
casks for shipping, oil casks, reservoirs, etc. Other lines in stock 
or contracted for at prices difficult of duplication elsewhere, ara 
molasses and rum hogsheads, kegs and pails for white lead, 
buckets and oyster pails, ships' square tanks; also the best 
qualities of staves and heading. The company h.as a capital of 
$100,000 and controls large tracts of timber lands in the south- 
west, receiving tlieir staves direct from stump and at lowest 
cost. The great advantages thus enjoyed by tlie company are 
duly appreciated by its customers, to wliom prices are quoted 
that considering the high standard of all the company's work 
cannot be met elsewhere. The comjiany does a heavy and 
growing trade, with connections all over the United States and 
also export shooks, etc. All orders will receive prompt at- 
tention at the office. No. 160 State Street, which has telephone 
connections, wliile the company has first-class arrangements 
for shipping cooperage to any point. 

FURNESS LINE of Steamships, C. Furness, Proprietor; No. 85 
Water Street, London Agents: Thomas Ronaldson & Co., 
Leadenhall Street.— The Furness Line so deservedly popular 
with the commercial world, and which has developed an 
enormous freight traffic direct with London, England, to which 
port the fleet plies from Boston. The line w,as established six 
years ago by Mr. C. Furness of Hartlepool, England, one of the 
leading and most progressive steamship owners in the world. To 
his spirit of enterprise, Boston is materially indebted for this 
important feeder to her commerce, and to the popularity of the 
route to and from London. Mr. Furness removed his Boston head- 
quarters to No. 85 Water Street in March, 1888, and which are in 
charge of, and the business here generally under the able manage- 
ment of Mr. R. E. Burnett, who bring.t to bear ample experience 
;ind influential connections as a ship and freight broker and steam- 
sliip agent. The Furness Line fleet of steamships is composed as 
follows: Wethei-by, 2129 tons; Stockholm City, 26.S6 tons; Ripon 
City, 2141 tons ; Durham City, 3092 tons ; Boston City, 2334 tons ; 
Gothenburg City, 2526 tons; Washington City, 2296 tons; Damar.a, 
1779 tons, and Ulunda, 1789 tons. Tliese are all Al at Lloyds, full 
powered Iron steamships, of excellent model and great cargo 
capacity ; speedy, safe and seaworthy, and keep up a regular ten 
day service between Boston and London, eacli way, through bills 
of lading being issued to and from all the principal Baltic, Conti- 
nental, Mediterranean and Oriental ports, connecting at London 
with direct steamers. Freight room can be secured from Mr. Bur- 
nett at short notice for almost any tonnage required and at lowest 
current rates. This is a great convenience not only to our Boston 
merchants, but also to the thousands all through the west and in 
Canada, who can import and export on direct through bills of lad- 
ing via this line and connecting railroads. The Furne,ss ships take 
eastward full cargoes of grain, provisions, flour, meal, cotton, 
flax, butter, cheese, apples, etc., and discharge here full lines 
of merchandise, pig iron, metals, etc. Mr. Furness is doing much 
to build up Boston's foreign trade .and long may his flag continue 
to be seen flying from steamships in this harbor. 

KARL A. RYDINGSVARD, Architectural and Artistic Wood 
Carving, No. 76 Beverly Street.— For exquisite workman- 
ship, or originality and be:iuty of designs in the line of 
wood carving, not one in tlie business in Boston excels 
Karl A. Rydingsvard. He was born in Sweden, and has resided in 
this city about five years. He is a practical wood carver of long 
and varied experience in tlie exercise of his art and is a thorough 
nuaster of the same in all its branches. He started in business on 
his own account here in 1886, and soon established himself in favor 
and recognition, acquiring in a short time a very flattering patron- 
age. He occupies ample and well equipped quarters, (with J. 
W. Clark, manufacturer of desks, wood mantels and interior fur- 
nishings) and is prepared to attend to everything n the line of 
architectural and artistic wood carving, designs being made. Mr. 
Rydingsvard has been connected with some of the best firms in 
Stockholm and Boston, as designer and carver, and has taught in 
both cities. Mrs. Rydingsvard has studied under Herr Leonhardt 
Sturm, Dresden, one of Germany's most celebrated porcelain 
painters, and for several years has been a teacher in the Mass. 
Normal Art School. 



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FOWLE, HIBBARD & CO., Produce Commission Merchants, 
Butter, Clieese, Beans, Peas, Evaporated Apples, Eggs, 
Poultry, Etc., Nos. 176 State and 7 Commerce Streets.— The 
facilities enjoyed by the City of Boston as a distributing 
point tor staple agricultural products have been such as to greatly 
promote the shipment to tliis market of general country produce, 
and the prosecution of the commission business. The enterprise 
of Messrs. Fowle, Hibbard & Co., of Nos. 176 State and 7 Com- 
merce Streets, in this direction of trade is a prominent one, and 
deserving of honorable mention in this review. The business was 
originally established in 1866, by Messrs. L. W. Fowle, S. P. Hib- 
bard and J. W. White, and in 1885 Mr. E. J. Whitman was also ad- 
mitted as a member of tlie firm. They occupy spacious and com- 
modious premises, consisting of a salesroom running through the 
block from State to Commerce Streets, also a basement and five 
upper floors, thus giving ample accommodations for landing and 
storing tlie immense and valuable stock and tor supplying the 
most extensive demand. The firm handle butter, cheese, beans, 
peas, evaporated apples, eggs, poultry, etc., and are widely known 
tliroughout the best producing sections of the country as among 
the most reliable and successful commission houses in Boston. 
They receive their supplies direct from producers and first hands, 
and the facilities possessed by this firm are sucli that consignments 
of goods, however large, are quickly placed and prompt returns 
made in all cases. Sales are made in wholesale lots only, all 
orders being filled with dispatch, while goods are also shipped di- 
rect from producers on orders, inducements being offered in this 
direction unsurpassed by those of any other house in the 'rade. 
The firm enjoy a generous jiatronage from the hands of all who 
have come in contact with tlie house in a business way, securing, 
as they do. the perfect confidence of the trade everywhere, and 
gaining friends in all their movements. In this way tlieir business 
Is maintained in a promising and healthy condition. and is broadly 
distributed throughout all the New England States. So much for 
enterprise, honesty and business push. Messrs. Fowle and White 
are Massachusetts men by birth and training, Mr. Hibbard is a na- 
tive of Canada, and Mr. Wliitman was born in the State of Maine. 
They are all gentlemen of high repute and wide acquaintance in 
commercial and trade circles, and are commended to shippers 
and dealers alike as worthy of every trust and confidence. 

GEO. TYLER & CO., Agricultural Machinery, No. 4.3 South Mar- 
ket Street.— A progressive and representative house in Boston 
extensively engaged in tlie sale of agricultural machinery, 
is that of Messrs. Geo. Tyler & Co., whose offices and sales- 
rooms are situated at No. 43 South Market Street. This business 
was established nine years ago by Mr. Geo. Tyler who conducted 
it till October, 1886, when he admitted his son Mr. F. J. Tyler into 
partnership under the firm name of Geo.Tyler&Co. The premises 
occupied comprise tour commodious floors 25x60 feet in area, fully 
equipped with every appliance and facility tor the successful prose- 
cution of the business. Messrs. Tyler & Co. keep constantly in stock 
mowjngmachines.hay tedders, hayrakes, sulky plows, swivel plows, 
spring tooth harrows, smoothing harrows, corn planters, ensilage 
cutters, horse powers, threshers and cleaners. They are agents for 
the famous Climax Disc Harrow and also keep in stock all kinds of 
repairs for mowing machines, horse rakes and road machines. 
Only the best and most reliable agricultural machinery is handled 
by the firm, and the prices quoted are as low as those of any other 
contemporary first-class house in the trade. Tlie firm employ three 
traveling salesmen, and their trade extends througliout all sections 
of New England and New York. Both Messrs. George and F. J. 
Tyler are natives of Connecticut. All their dealings are cliar.Tcter- 
ized by energyandintegrity, and they are highly esteemed in trade 
circles as able and trustworthy business men. 

THE GEO. E. READ Furniture Company, Manufacturers of 
Chamber Furniture and Sideboards, Nos. 89 to 95 Rich- 
mond Street.— The leading representative concern in Bos- 
ton devoted to the manufacture of the better grades of 
walnut, mahogany and oak chamber furniture, sidebosrds, ward- 
robes, etc., is the George E. Read Furniture Company of Nos .89 to 
95 Richmond Street. The business was established in 1873. and 
under Mr. George E. Read's skilled and enterprising proprietor- 
ship, rapidly developed to proportions of great magnitude, so 



much so that in 1884, the important interests involved were duly 
capitalized under the existing title, with Mr. H. Dunning as presi- 
dent, and Mr. G. E. Read as treasurer and general manager. The 
directors include Messrs. Dunning and Read, and Mr. William E. 
Litchfield, all prominent citizens, noted tor ability and enterprise. 
Mr. Re.ad is a native of Providence, R. I., and from early life has 
been actively identified with the manufacture of furniture. He 
is a leading authority in the line, and brings to bear every qualifi- 
cation, including thorough knowledge of the wants of the trade. 
The company's main premises are five stories in heiglit, 60x100 feet 
in dimensions, and in addition the second floor of adjoining build- 
ing is added. The latest improved machinery and appliances 
have been introduced, run by seventy-five horse engine with a 
seventy-five horse boiler. Upwards of sixty hands find steady em- 
ployment here in the manufacture of the newest and most popular 
styles of chamber furniture, sideboards, wardrobes, chiffoniers, 
etc., in the best quality of seasoned walnut, oak, mahogany, 
cherry, etc. Mr. Read, as general manager enforces a thorough 
system of organization, and selects materials with the utmost 
care, only skilled, experienced workmen are employed, the finish 
is elaborate and the company is justly celebrated throughout the 
trade as selling the very best goods that can be produced for the 
money ; both as to highest quality and lowest prices. Possessed of 
sound judgment, marked executive ability, and building up the 
reputation of this representative concern on the basis of merit, 
they are wortliy of the large measure of success achieved, and 
have permanently retained to Boston, a most important and val- 
uable branch of trade. 

MERCANTILE FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY', 
Geo. R.Rogers, President, James Simpson, Secretary, Office 
No. 58 State Street.— Tlie Mercantile Fire & Marine In- 
surance Company, was duly incorporated under the laws 
of Massachusetts in 1823 witli a cash capital of $300,000, which 
amount was increased to $400,000 in 1877. The executive officers of 
the company are Geo.R. Rogers, president, and James Simpson, sec- 
retary. Tlie company undertakes all kinds of fire, marine and in- 
land risks, also insuring dwellings, stores and furniture in the city 
and country tor one, tliree and five years at the lowest possible 
rates, consistent with safety. The present strength ottlie Mercan- 
tile. Fire & Marine Insurance Company is best shown by its annual 
statement January 1st 1888, which is as follows: Assets— Invest- 
ments at market value, and secured loans, $606,408.66; cash, 
notes, interest, and all other items, $58,377.85; total assets, $664,- 
786.01. Liabilities— Unpaid losses, 829,813.05 ; reinsurance fund, 
(Massachusetts Standard) $105,564.46; all other liabilities. $8,647.- 
83. Total liabilities. S144,025.34. Capital stock paid in, $400,000.00. 
Net surplus, $120,760.67. We would observe, that the affairs of this 
responsible company have always been ably and prudently man- 
aged, and its surplus as regards policy holders now amounts to 
$520,760.67. 

AARON R. G4Y' & CO., Account Book Manufacturers, Sta- 
tioners, Etc., No. 122 State Street.— An old established and 
representative house in Boston, actively engaged in the 
manufacture of account books, stationery, etc., is that of 
Messrs. Aaron R. Gay & Company. This business was established 
in 1847 by Aaron R. Gay, who conducted it till 1859, when lie died, 
and was succeeded by the present copartners, Messrs. Samuel S. 
and Edwin W. Gay, who are now conducting the business under 
the old style and title of Aaron R. Gay & Company. The premises 
occupied comprise a commodious five-story building 25x42 feet in 
area. The manufacturing department is fully supplied with the 
latest modern machinery for the execution of their work. A good 
force of experienced workmen are employed, and the trade ex- 
tends throughout the eastern, middle and western states. The 
firm makes a specialty of all kinds of blank books, such as journals, 
ledgers, day and invoice books, etc. They likewise furnish 
promptly to order letter, note and bill paper, checks, drafts, 
receipts, bonds, certificates of stock, lithographic circulars and 
cards in the highest style of art at extremely low prices. The 
blank books inaiiufactured by this resjionsible firm are unrivalled 
for quality, finish and excellence, and are used by insurance com- 
panies, banks, bankers, etc. Mr. Samuel S. Gay is a native of Rox- 
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THE HAMMOND TYPE WRITER COMPANY, Manufacturers 
of the Hammond Type Writer, C. N. Hammond, Manager, 
Boston Office, No. 300 Washington Street.— The famous 
Hammond Typewriter manufactured by the Hanunond 
Typewriter Company, was duly Incorporated in 1881 witli ample 
capital, and since its organization has secured a liberal and per- 
manent patronage not only in all sections of the United States and 
Canada, but also abroad. The following gentlemen are the execu- 
tive offlcers of the company, viz: J. B. Hammond, president; W. 
C. Behrens, vice-president and manager; J. M. Bancroft, secre- 
tary ; Wm. T. Pliipjis, treasuier. The works, which are admirably 
equipped with special machinery, tools, etc.. are situated in New 




Yorli at Nos. 292-298 Avenue B. Here 150 skilled mechanics are 
employed, who turn out annually 4,000 typewriters. The Ham- 
mond Typewriter is unriv.alled for speed, perfect alignment, 
beauty strength, changeable type, uniform impression and dura- 
bility, and has no superior in tiie United States or Europe. This 
splendid typewriter has received the following awards and 
medals: American Exhibition, London, England, October, 1S87, 
the best typewriter for office work where speed is required. Me- 
chanics' Fair, Boston, December, 1887, awarded the only gold 
medal. American Institute, New York, special medals, 1885, 188". 
New Orleans Exposition, 1884-85, the only Gold medal awarded. 
The Hanunond writes in perfect alignment and use cannot change 
the same. The impression is always uniform, being independent 
of the touch. It writes the letters close together, as in print, 
therefore printing more letters to a line. Its keys are relatively 
so placed as to facilitate speed of lingering. The touch of the 
l<eys Is light, elastic, and firm. Its paper carriage moves more 
I .ipidly than any operator can manipulate the keys. Any width 
of paper can be used, and envelopes, cards, and narrow paper can 
be inserted as easily as large sheets. It is especially adapted for 
writing on library catalogue cards, and it is especially adapted for 
tabular work, large statements, etc., such as required in railroad, 
insurance and real estate offices. The type can be cleaned in a 
few seconds. Circulars, price lists, etc., and sample book of 
finest grades of linen papers are sent free on application at the 
company's offices, No. 300 Washington Street, Boston; No. 15 North 
Charles Street, Baltimore ; No. 510 West Main Street, Louisville ; No. 
206 La S,alle Street, Chicago ; No. 706 Olive Street, St. Louis ; No. 57 
West Fourth Street, Cincinnati; No. 133 Westminster Street, Provi- 
dence, R. I. The company's Boston office is under the able and 
careful management of Mr. C. N. Hammond. 



BOURNE & CO., General Commission Merchants and Dealers 
iu Fruits and Vegetables, No. 13 Faneuil Hall Market, North 
Side.— The importance of Boston as a great wholesale centre 
for the produce connnission trade is forcibly illustrated by a 
review of several of the leading concerns engaged in business here. 
One of the oldest-est.ablished and representative. among the num- 
ber is the widely and favorably known firm of Bourne & Co. It 
was originally established in 1852 by Mr. Benjamin Bourne and 
Mr. 0. M. Hatch, who actively conducted a large and growing 
trade, repeatedly Laxing their facilities to the utmost, and neces- 
sitating increased .accommod.ations. After an experience of eight 
years with liis father, eventually, in 1874, Mr. C. J. llatcii, son of the 
juuior partner of the old firm, succeeded to the sole proprietor- 
ship, retaining, however, the honored name and style, so familiar 
to the trade and public of Boston and New England. Mr. Hatch 
brings to bear every possible qualifica- 
tion, including perfected facilities, wide- 
spread, influential connections, and an 
intimate knowledge of the wants of the 
trade. A general commission business is 
transacted, they being regular receivers 
of large consignments from prominent 
shippers, growers and packers, having 
the best of facilities for the disposal of 
all choice growths of fruits and vegeta- 
bles at top prices. They have very com- 
modious and carefully fltted-up premises 
on the north side of Faneuil Hall Market 
and also sever.al large storehou.ses, where 
goods can be held till the best prices are 
piocured, and have, in season, all kinds 
of fiuits and vegetables, including ap- 
ples, pears, grapes, cranberries, cherries, 
^tlawberries, raspberries, etc., tropical 
Units, potatoes, carrots, turnips, cab- 
bages, celery, tomatoes, and every kind 
if foreign and domestic fruits. In win- 
lei they are leading handlers of Florida 
^-^' ureen stuff and oranges. They are of the 

' leading shippers of .apples in the winter 

and sell iu c.arlo,ad lots. They also do a 
°^^— - fine export trade, and are always fully 
prepared to promptly fill the largest 
wholesale orders. The house of Bourne 
& Co. has ever retained the confidence of leading commercial cir- 
cles, and has ever pursued a policy of equity and honor maintain- 
ing a leading position tor enterprise and energy, and has ever 
been, and is now more th.an ever, a vitally important factor in the 
promotion of Boston's produce trade. 

WM. B. BLAKEMORE, Real Estate, Mortgages and Insur- 
.ance. Room 33, Globe Building, No. 244 Washington 
Street.— One of the most reliable and responsible gen- 
tlemen engaged in dealing in the realty of Boston and 
vicinity, is Mr. William B. Blakemore. This gentleman li.as been 
established in business here since 1873, and makes a specialty of 
improved and unimproved property situate at West Roxbury. 
The finest tract of land that has ever been offered tor sale in West 
Roxbury is now placed upon the market for the first time. These 
lots, 400 in number, comprising in all about sixty .acres, are located 
seven to ten minutes' walk from Highland Station on the Provi- 
dence Railroad. They are high, with fine view, smooth and level, 
soil rich, and can be properly called " garden lots." Streets are 
forty feet in width; provided with city water, city schools, fire 
and police departments. Lots average 5,0C0 square feet in size. 
Pricj, from three to six cents per foot. Terms are either cash, 
part cash or monthly payments. Mr. Blakemore transacts a gen- 
eral real estate business, buying, selling, exchanging and renting 
properties, and is recognized as an accurate authorityon the pres- 
ent and prospective values of realty in this section, so that the ut- 
most reliance can be placed upon his judgment and advice 'oy in- 
tending investors. He is .also prominent as an insurance broker, 
and is prepared to promptly place the largest risks, quoting the 
lowest rates of premium, and guaranteeing a speedy and liberal 
adjustment of all losses. 



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AMcARTHUR & CO., Furniture and Carpets, Crockery and 
Glassware, Bedding, Stoves, Etc., No. ISCorniiill.— Among 
J tlie le.xding furniture, carpet and liouse-furnisliing goods 
cstablislnnents of Boston, tliat of Messrs. A. McArtliur 
& Co., is wortliy of special mention by reason of the marked 
energy, ability and equity of tlie proprietors, their stock being the 
most thoroughly representative and quoted at the lowest prices 
obtainable anywhere. The business was founded by Mr. A. 
Mc. Arthur in 1877, who brought to bear wide experience and in- 
fluential connections, and early developed an active and growing 
trade. Five and a halt years ago Mr. Willard McLeod was admit- 
ted into copartnership, under the existing name and style, and the 
firm has gone on doing a business of increasing magnitude, and 
with the best people of Boston and New England generally. Their 
premises are most centrally located and very extensive, compris- 
ing six entire floors, 50x80 feet in dimensions. Here is a perfectly 
fitted up emporium of furniture, carpets, bedding, stoves, crockery, 
glassware, refrigerators, liouse-furnishing goods, baby carriages, 
etc. The furniture includes the finest and medium grades in 
mahogany . oak, cherry, ash, chestnut, ebonized, st.iined and painted 
parlor and chamber sets— the latest styles, and the stock is well 
and honestly made from the best materials. Tlie prices will 
astonish those who have in the past dealt with smaller concerns 
with limited facilities. Quality is the first consideration with 
Messrs. McArthnr& Co., and they permanently adhere tothesame 
high standard of excellence. In their carpet department they 
carry a large ,and most Judiciously selected stock, comprising all 
the best known makes of Axminster. Wilton's, Moquette's. body 
brussels, three-ply, ingrains, etc., also the finest imported rugs, all 
the choicest styles of lace curtains, cornices, poles, shades in pat- 
terns of various sizes, and in all colors and widths of cloth, also 
oil cloths all widths, cocoa, china and rubber matting A very 
large and desirable stock of crockery and glassware is displayed 
liere, direct from the most famous potteries and factories of Europe 
and America, also the best brands of stoves and ranges, refrigera- 
tors, tin ware, hollow ware, and a vast variety of useful and orna- 
mental house furnishings. This stock is one ihat cliallenges com- 
petition from any other in New England, and the firm's enormous 
patronage, requiring the services of twenty-five hands in their 
various departments indicates how ably and satisfactorily they are 
meeting the wants of the people of Boston and New England. 

RICHARD KOWE, Insurance Agent and Broker, No. 2 Mason 
Building, Liberty Square.— Among our most energetic and 
successful insurance agents and brokers, is Mr. Richard 
Rowe, of No. 2 Mason Building. Liberty Square, front- 
ing Kilby and Water Streets. Mr. Rowe has been identi- 
fied with the insurance business for the past twenty-seven 
yeai-s, and for twenty four years has been in business 
on his own account. From the first he has conducted the 
affairs of his house in a manner to win the approval of all 
classes of the community He has been located for the past six 
years in his present offices, which are handsomely fitted up and 
provided with every convenience that can promote the comfort of 
patrons and add to the enhancement of thef.icilities for the satis- 
lactory transaction of business. Mr. Rowe is a member of the Bos- 
tonUnderwriters' Association, effects fire and inland marine insur- 
ance on all classes of property, grain and merchandise, stores, 
dwellings and public buildings, etc.. and generally transacts an 
active and large heavy line of business as an underwriter. He re- 
presents many of the oldest, most substantial, liberal and honora- 
ble companies, both foreign and domestic, and among these may 
be named the London Association Company and tlie Sun Fire In- 
surance Conipany.ofLondon : North British Mercantile,of England; 
the Phenix, of Hartford, and the Fire Association, of Philadelphia; 
also the strongest of the inntual companies. Policies are issued on 
the very lowest terms compatible with security, and losses, asthey 
occur, are promptly adjusted and paid without quibbling. Mr. 
Rowe's business relations extend to all parts of the New 
England States, and his circle of patrons is large and influential. 
He is a native of New Hampshire, and has resided in Boston for 
the past thirty-seven years. He deservedly merits the high esteem 
in which he is held by insurance men and the mercantile commun- 
ity generally, while as an underwriter he is thoroughly prompt and 
efficient, and h.as no superiors in the business. 



CD. POTTER, Commission Merchant and Distillers' Agent for 
the sale of Pure Liquors, No. 35 Devonshire Street.— There 
, are probably few articles so dilficult to obtain pure and 
unadulterated as wines and liquors, and it is only by the 
greatest care in purchasing either by the retailer or consumer that 
quality can be assured. In this connection we desire to direct the 
attention of the members of this line of trade throughout New Eng- 
land to the enterpriseconductedin thiscity by Mr. C. D Potter, the 
well-known commission merchant, importers' and distillers' agent, 
whose office Is very centrally located at No 35 Devonshire Street, 
corner of State Street. This gentleman established his business 
here in 1874, and possesses unequalled connections and facilities 
for conducting all operations under the most favorable auspices. 
He acts as agent for importers of wines and liquors, and for Ken- 
tucky and western distillers, and also as a general commission 
merchant in goods of this kind, shipping direct to buyers from the 
manufacturers, and guaranteeing prompt and satisfactory fulfil- 
ment of all orders and commissions. Mr. Potter is agent for H. 
McKenna, distiller of Nelson County pure old line sour-mash 
whiskey, and wholesale liquor dealer, at No 245 Fourth Street, 
Louisville, Ky.; Wm. M. Collins & Co., distillers of hand 
made sour-mash whiskies, and wholesale whiskies, Nos. 104 
and 106 East Main Street, Louisville, Ky . Marion County Distillery 
Co , distillers of bourbon and rye whiskies. Nos 104 and 106 Main 
Street, Louisville, Ky , A. Heller & Bro , importers of fine wines, 
liquors, crown champagne, etc , Nos., 35 and 37 Broad Street, New 
York; and Felton & .Son, distillers of copper distilled pure molas- 
ses rum. No. 17 Broad Street. Boston Mr. Potter is also the origi- 
nator and sole agent for the sale of Potter's Semper Idem T. F C. 
whisky. All persons desiring pure distilled whiskies, whether for 
medicinal, mechanical or domestic purposes, should try Potter s 
semper idem, which is commended to the first-class trade of the 
country as a perfect whisky ; perfect in the material from which it 
is made, perfect in its scrupulous cleanliness, perfect in its process 
of distillation, and perfect in packages. Made from the best se- 
lected grains and purest spring water, carefully mashed in siiiali 
tubs by hand and distilled in copper, over an open wood fire (ihe 
old fashioned way), the product is as stated perfect in every single 
detail; it is heavily malted. m,ade from thoroughly ripe grain, and 
stored in warehouses heated and kept at an even temperature 
during the year; it therefore matures rapidly is very mellow and 
semper idem. Mr. Potter is a Massachusetts man by birth and 
training, in the early prime of life, and held in high esteem through 
out New England. 

CW. WHEELOCK & CO., New England Agency of The 
Adams and Westlake Oil, Gas and Vapor Stoves. No 13 
J Cornhill — The finest, safest, most reliable and economical 
oil stoves in the world are those manufactured by the 
Adams & Westlake Company of Chicago and New York. They are 
in use in the largest numbers of any make all over the United 
States, and here in Boston and New England are the popular 
favorites The general agents for New England are Messrs. C W. 
Wheelock & Co., and who now represent the A. & \\ Co.. 
and have developed a trade of great and growing magnitude. 
They carry a full line of oil and gas stoves, which are con- 
structed on approved scientific principles of the best mater- 
ials, and while economical in the consumption of oil are the 
most powerful and reliable for cooking and heating The 
company has recently brought out its new " No. 13. ' a magnilicent 
stove having three five inch tubes with grooved rollers for moving 
wick It has an extension top afl'oidiiig ample room and heat for 
two boiling places and also for baking in the extra large oven at 
same time; or there are four boiling places when the oven is re 
moved, with this stove, the largest family cm do all its cooking 
without dirt, ashes, smell or trouble of any kind. These stoves 
cook better and do prompter work than any others in the world, 
and are worthy of the proud preeminence attained. Mr. Wheel- 
ock also keeps full lines of new style oil and gas stoves for 
heating, at prices which put them within the reach of all. 
Those interested should send to him for illustrated descrip- 
tive circular and price list. He is a native of Boston, very widely 
and favor.ably known in leading mercantile circles, and is rapidly 
developing an important trade in these, the finest and most desir- 
able make of oil and gas stoves on the market. 



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CHARLES H. WHITE <Si CO., Manufacturers of White's Hot Air 
Furnaces, and Automatic Furnace Regulators, Etc., No. 11 
Devonshire Street.— To tliose who are in need of a first-class 
furnace safe, economical, powerful and reliable, we 
would strongly recommend to purchase one of Mr. C. H. White's 
hot-air furnaces, fitted with his famous eclipse regulator and 
damper. The furnace has no equal for its embodiment of all ex- 
cellences .and improvements, while the automatic regulator Is a 
safeguard and benefit that once on, no one would |>erinit to be re- 
moved for many times its cost. It may be added right here, that 
White & C'o's., regulator can be re.idily applied to any kind of 
furnace, either brick-set or portable. Mr. Charles H. White, the 
founder of this business and inventor and patentee of this really 
wonderful regulator, was born in Boston and has been in business 
here for many years past. Ten years ago he put liisfurnaces on the 
market and tliey met with instant success and cordial approval 
from all who investigated or used them. Tliey are now the 
favorite and In use all over New England, and in many of the 
finest houses in Boston. Mr. Wliite had long made a study of the 
problem of an automatic regulation of the draft of furnaces, and 
finally solved the problem with his new eclipse furnace regulator 
duly patented on November 11, 1879. It is attached to the furnace 
in sucli a manner as to be governed by the cold or hot air current 
in the air chamber, causing it to automatically change the draft 
with a change of outside temperature. By tlms surely regulating 
the draft, it secures an even temperature In the rooms, absolutely 
prevents the possibility of overhe.ating or of fire, securing perfect 
safety, peace of mind, and whatisalsoofmuch importance, greatly 
Increased economy in the consumption of fuel. The regulator was 
awarded the silver medal at tlie thirteenth e.\hibition of the 
Mechanics' Charitable Association. Mr. White is in receipt of 
hundreds of the most convincing testimonials from leading citi- 
zens of Boston and elsewhere. One gentleman saved one-tliird on 
his winters coal bill by its use. Another praises it as perfect, after 
he had previously tried regulators of other makes. The best 
practical proofs are afforded that the eclipse has no equal any 
where, and it is now rapidly finding its way not only throughout 
the New England States, but right through to the west. Mr. White 
is a leading engineer as regards house heating, having vast exper- 
ience under the most diverse conditions. He will promptly furnish 
estimates for warming and ventilating public and private build- 
ings, or for the supply of furnaces, piping, elbows, registers, and 
all descriptions of tin and sheet iron work. 

LP. HATCH, Hats, Caps and Furs, Gloves, Umbrellas and 
Canes, No. 311 Washington Street.— One of the finest 
mercantile establishments on this great trade artery of 
the Hub is that of Mr. L. P. Hatch, dealer in hats, caps, 
furs, gloves, umbrellas, canes, etc., at No. 311 Washington street. 
This old time-lionored liouse was founded as far back as 1850 by 
Mr. F. Weis and originally and for many years was located at No. 
633 Washington street. In tlie subsequent years the proprietor- 
sliip underwent several changes, Mr. Hatch becoming a copartner 
in the enterprise in 1883 under the firm title of F. Weis & Co. In 
1886 the business was removed to the present site and on February 
1st, 1887, Mr. Hatch succeeded the firm and has since conducted 
tlie business in the thoroughly able and popular manner which lias 
ever been a leading characteristic of the hou.se. The premises 
consist of a store and basement 20x80 feet in dimensions and with 
its ornate plate glass front and sumptuous interior appointments 
tlie salesroom forms one of the attractive features of the street. 
The stock carried is large, comprehensive and complete, embrac- 
ing the choicest productions in the goods above enumerated 
which in each department are carefully selected from the newest 
novelties and latest fashionable styles. The house patronage is 
drawn from tlie high class town and nearby custom and a goodly 
force of clerks and salesmen is required in the transaction of the 
voluminous and prosperous general business. Mr. Hatch repre- 
sents an excellent type of the enterprising go-ahead nineteenth 
century Boston merchant. Beginning as clerk he acquired a 
practical knowledge of the business before assuming the re- 
sponsibility of a proprietor and now although still a young man 
he has become through his own well-directed efforts one of the 
representative and most highly respected merchants iu his line. 
Mr. Hatch is a native of Maine. 



AM. STETSON <Si CO., Coal, Wood and Lumber, Masons' 
Supplies, Stetson's Wharf, First Street: Oflice, No. H 
J Kilby Street.— One of the great representative mercan- 
tile houses of Boston is that of Messrs. A. M. Stetson & 
Co., the widely and favorably known retail dealers in coal, wood 
and all kinds of lumber. The business was founded away back 
in 1836 by Messrs. Collman & Stetson, succeeded iu 1838 by Messrs. 
A. Stetson & Son, the latter being Mr. A. M. Stetson. The trade 
has ste.adily grown, and the house is now and has ever been one 
of tlie most progressive in the business. In 1862 Mr. A. M. Stetson 
succeeded his father in tlie proprietorship, and in 1866 took into 
copartnership his son, Mr. John A. Stetson one of the best known 
and popular of Boston's young business men. In 1883 Mr. A. M. 
Stetson retired. As constituted, the house stands second to none 
In its branches of trade throughout tlie United States. As regards 
superior qualifications, perfected facilities and ample resources, 
we have yet to find a house its equal in Boston. The house gives 
close attention to the contracting for their immense stock and in 
regard to the prompt and efficient filling of all orders. Their prem- 
ises cover the great area of ten acres, extending from First Street to 
the water and having extensive wharves witli ample deptli of water 
to admit the coal and lumber vessels in to discharge. The magni- 
tude of the business done here may be gathered, when we state 
that the firm's coal shed has a capacity of 8,000 tons. They are 
direct receivers from the mines of the choicest anthracite and 
bituminous coals, warranted the best and most economical fuel in 
the market, for all purposes. They are also leading dealers iu 
hard and soft wood, for fuel and kindling; and have a large lum- 
ber yard connected with tlieir establishment full of choice sea- 
soned white pine, hard pine and hardwood lumber, specially 
adapted to the reqirements of the manufacturer and builder. 
Upwards of fifty men are employed in the various departments, 
and a fleet of vessels are kept busy freighting coal, wood and, 
lumber from the south and east, and the sales are annually enlarg- 
ing. The firm's offices are centrally located at No. 44 Kilby Street 
where all orders have prompt attention, and nowhere are such 
substantial inducements offered both as to price and quality as by 
this company 

CHARLES V.DASEY, Steamship Agent, Passage and Exchange 
Office, to Great Britain and Ireland, the Continent and the 
East, No. 7 Broad Street.— An established and responsible 
steamship agency in this city is the popular and well-known 
office conducted by Charles V. Dasey at No. 7 Broad Street (four 
doors from State Street), and than which no place of tlie kind 
in Boston bears a higher reputation for reliability, as few re- 
ceive a larger measure of public favor. This time-honored 
and prosperous agency was established some thirty years 
ago by the firm of Lawrence & Ryan, who conducted it 
up to about eight years ago, when it passed into control 
of the gentleman whose name heads the sketch, and under whose 
judicious management the business has since been continued 
with uniform success. The office, which is conveniently located 
on the second floor of No. 7 Broad Street, is commodious and 
well ordered, while three courteous and efficient clerks are in at- 
tendance. Tickets to and from England, Ireland, Scotland, Con- 
tinental Europe and in fact, all parts of the globe with which 
steamship communication is maintained, are sold .at lowest cur- 
rent rates, Mr. Dasey being psssage .agent for the Cunard Line, 
Allan Line, Guion Line, Inman Line, Anchor Line, Warren Line 
American Line, National Line to Great Britain and Ireland ; also 
for the Red Star Line, to Antwerp; Compagnie Gfinerale Traiis- 
Atlantique, to France; Netherlands Line, to Rotterdam and 
Amsterdam; Hamburg Line; Florio-Rubattino Line, to Mediter- 
ranean ports. Drafts for £1. sterling and upward, and also e.\- 
change payable in .all parts of the world, .are issued, while insur- 
ance likewise is placed with first-class fire companies at the very 
lowest r.ates consistent with absolute security; .and altogether, a 
large and active business is trans;icted here. Mr. D.asey, who is a 
man of about thirty-nine, and a native of this city, is a gentleman 
of agreeable manners and strict integrity in his dealings, as well 
as energy and excellent business qu.alities, and is a well-known 
member of the Insuran ;e Brokers' Association of Boston. Inquiry 
costs but the trouble of .asking and letters by mail are promptly 
attend -'d to and all information is clieerfully given. 



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SHEPARD & MORSE LUMBER COMPANY, Wholesale Lum- 
ber Dealers, Office, Mason Building; Mills Ottawa, Out., and 
Burlington, Vt. ; Branch Office, No. 62 Wall Street, N. Y.— The 
leading, and largest lumber company ol New England, and 
one second to none on the continent in resources, facilities and 
connections is the famous Shepard & Morse Lumber Company of 
Boston, Mass. ; Ottawa, Canada; Burlington, Vt., and New York. 
The immense business developed by it was founded by the firm of 
Shepard, Hall & Co. in 1865, succeeded by Shepard, Morse & Co- 
in 1877, the important interests involved were duly incorporated 
and tlie company formed continued tlie business, until in 1884, it 
was reorganized with a capital of $700,000 and extended facilities. 
The directors are as follows: Mr. James Maclaren of Buckingham, 
Province of Quebec; Mr. George H. Morse of Burlington, Vt.; Mr. 
Otis Shepard of Boston, Mass.; Mr. W. A. Crombie of Burlington 
Vt.. and Mr. H. B. Shepard of Boston. A more representative 
body of capitalists and experienced lumber men could not be 
gathered together, and their guidance is of the ablest and judi- 
cious character. The company have large yards at Ottawa, Canada, 
also its shipping department. Many million feet of the choicest 
white pine lumber are annually shipped by barges via the Ottawa 
River, Chambly Canal and Lake Champlain to Burlington and 
thence by rail and water to Boston and New York and other lead, 
ing points of distribution. Mr. Maclaren who is one of the largest 
mill owners in Canada, attends to the cutting and shipping, while 
Mr. Geo. H. Morse and Mr. W. A. Crombie are in charge of tlie yards 
and large planing and moulding mill at Burlington, Vt. Mr. Otis 
Sliepard and Messrs. H. B. and H. S. Shepard are in charge of the 
company's Boston interest. Ihe company handles and sells an- 
nually all the way from eighty to one hundred million feet of 
lumber. It sells to leading dealers, shippers and exporters in car 
and cargo lots. A prominent specialty is made of lumber for ex- 
port in bond or free, and tlie trade thus developed from Boston is 
one of great and growing importance, large cargoes being sliipped 
at frequent intervals to the principal ports of South America, the 
West Indies, South Africa, Europe, etc. In Burlington the com- 
pany manufactures full lines of doors, frames, windows, sash, 
mouldings, etc.. also matched stuff for siding, flooring, etc. 
Quality is the first consideration, while substanti.al inducements 
are offered at all times as to prices. Tlie Messrs. Shepard are too 
widely and favorably known to require comment in this connec- 
tion. They have ever retained the confidence of leading commer- 
cial circles, and are worthy exponents of one of the greatest 
staple industries, and commercial interests of the United States. 

SAMUEL A PPLETON, Insurance, No. 28 Central Street.— The 
man who has his property covered by insurance in a sub- 
stantial and responsible company, experiences a feeling of 
comfort and contentment unknown to one who is in daily 
fear of a lire breaking out and consuming all his belongings. The 
insurance interests of Boston have attained proportions of the 
greatest magnitude, and maintain paramount importance in the 
community. A house which has secured an excellent connection 
In this line of business activity, is that of Mr. Samuel Appleton, one 
of the best known and esteemed men in insurance circles. This 
gentleman began business in 1885, is of middle age. full of energy and 
enterprise, and h.as within a comparatively brief period developed 
an extensive connection of a strictly first-class character. His 
facilities in the lines of fire, life, marine and accident insurance 
are absolutely unsurpassed, and he is in a position to quote rates 
that are absolutely unrivalled in the market. He is the agent for 
tlie Employers' Liabiliiy Assurance Company of London forMassa- 
chusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampsliire, is the local represen- 
tative for tlie Sun, of London ; Queen, of England and German- 
American, of New York, and is a general broker in fire, life, marine 
and accident insurance. He is also a member of the Boston 
Board of Underwriters. Mr. Appleton, who has a neatly appointed 
office at No. 28 Central Street, has evinced special talents for this 
line of business, coupled with executive abilities of the highest 
order, and has taken a creditable position in insurance circles. He 
is a native of this city, and is popular in all the walks of life. 



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YMAN & WHITE, Stationers and Printers, Stationery Store, 
No. 2 Union Street, Printing Office, No. 41 North Street.— 
Few houses enjoy a more extended popularity or a more 



prosperous trade, than that of Messrs. Lyman and White, the 
well-known stationers and printers, at Nos. 2 Union and 41 
North Streets. The business was originally established in 1879, by 
Luther B. Lyman, who was succeeded by the present firm, Lyman 
& White, in 1886. Tlie premises on North Street, used for a print- 
ing office, are spacious in size, and admirably equipped with the 
most modern machinery and appliances known to tlie trade, while 
steady employment is given to twenty-one skilled and expert 
hands. As practical printers and stationers, this firm are unex- 
celled in the trade, turning out work promptly and which, being 
up to the highest standard, elicits admiration from all who see it 
and proves conclusively their superiority as masters of the printer's 
art. The salesrooms of the firm on Union Street are stocked to 
repletion with new choice and desirable goods, which find a ready 
sale and a permanent demand among the leading mercantile insti- 
tutions of this city, banks, insurance companies and large corpora- 
tions. The firm cater tor first-class trade, executingall work in the 
highest style of the art, and undertake every description of fine 
letter-press and lithographic printing, keeping in stock constantly 
a very large line of mercantile stationery, and stationery goods in 
general. Orders by telephone, or otherwise, are given prompt and 
careful attention in all cases, and inducements are offered as re- 
gards terms and prices which challenge competition. 

J WILLIAMS BEAL, Architect, Mason Building, No. 70 Kilby 
Street.— The office of Mr. John Williams Beal, thu well- 
^ known and popular yonng architect, is located in the Ma- 
son Building, No. 70 Kilby Street. This gentleman was 
born in and still resides in Hanover, Mass. At an e.arly age he de- 
voted himself to the study of architecture, and determined that 
planning and superintending the erection of buildings should be 
his calling. His education and training were specially directed to 
fit him for his chosen profession, and he had a sound, practical tui- 
tion at the hands of some of the best known masters of the art. 
Nine years ago he launched into business on his own account, and 
from first to last his efforts liave been attended with marked 
success. Architecture in all its departments has in him an 
able exponent, and the designing and superintending of tlie erec- 
tion of buildings of every description receive the most careful at- 
tention. For the past two years Mr. Beat has been located in his 
present offices, which are equipped with all the necessary para- 
phernalia for the expeditious execution of all commissions, and a 
staff of competent assistants are kept busy. Mr. Beal has demon- 
strated .all over the city and the New England States, by the num- 
erous buildings which have been erected from his designs and un- 
der his directions, tlmt he knows his business thoroughly, and in 
proof of this we may mention that among such buildings are the 
following: Plymouth Court House: Bryant's Opera House, at 
Brockton; Post-office building, at Brockton; Rockingham House, 
Portsmouth : Rev. Dr. Plumb's church and Rev. Dr. Lyons' church, 
at Boston, and Fogg's bank building, at South Weymouth. 

ED. VER PLANCK, Commission Dealer in Sugar. Hemp and 
East India Products, No. 13 Exchange Place, Room 10.— 
For years the trade in the products of the East and West 
Indies and South American countries has contributed one 
of the most extensive and important branches of commercial ac- 
tivity in this city. The transactions in sugar, hemp and East India 
goods in Boston at the present day aggregate vast proportions in 
the course of a year, while the volume of business grows .apace 
annually ; the sales through the medium of broker and commission 
merchants alone representing millions of dollars. Among the 
younger merchants engaged in this line in the city, there is per- 
haps none better known, as few enjoy a larger measure of recog- 
nition, than the gentleman whose name stands at the head of this 
sketch. Mr. E. D. Ver Planck was born in Boston, where he is well 
and favorably known in commercial life, and prior to establishing 
himself in business, in 1883, had had several years' experience in 
the same line. He is a gentleman of entire probity and thoroughly 
responsible in all his dealings, as well as a young man of energy 
and excellent business qiualities, and is fully conversant witli the 
trade. Mr. Ver Planck handles sugar, hemp, manilla and East In- 
dia products generally, and acts as agent for foreign houses and for 
the markets of tlie United States. He does a strictly commission 
business, while his transactions are by cargo lots. 



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AE. JEANEKET, Watchmaker and Manutacturei-, No. 235 
Wasliiiigton Street.— The trade of the watchmaker is 
well represented in this city by Mr. A. E. Jeaueret.who is 
' a practical mechanician and has acquired a wide reputa- 
tion for skill and dexterity, and enjoys in a marked degree the im- 
plicit confidence of the trade and the public. He is a native of 
Switzerland, and came to the United States in 1858 and has been 
established in business since 1876. His patronage is large, and in all 
his work he exercises the greatest care, and is pronounced one of 
the best fine watchmakers and repairers in Boston. He occupies a 
very desirable location, room U on the second floor of the building 
No. 235 Washington Street, and carries in stock a general assort- 



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' Manfr-d by v^fa-*-l^W; Boston, Mass- 

Tor Bold, Silver, Plated Ware, Nickel, and Glass^ 

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PRICE 25 CENTS.^ 



nient of gold and silver watches of both foreign and American 
production and is conducting a large, prosperous business. Mr. 
Jeaneret is the president and largest stockholder in the company 
which was incorporated in 1888 for the manufacture of Diamond 
Luster for cleaning and polishing gold, silver, plated ware, nickel 
and glass, which is sold all over the country, and is pronounced the 
linest and best article for tlie purpose ever before brought to the 
notice of the public. It is the best selling article of the kind in 
the market and is far superior to any other preparation and is sold 
at retail at the low price of 25 cents per box. Many hundreds of 
testimonials have been received by Mr. Jeaneret all of which highly 
oommend the luster and endorse it as the best preparation ever dis- 
covered for polishing metals or glass, and as it is free from grit, acid, 
or any injurious corrosive substance, will not injure the most del- 
icate surface. It has been in use over six years and has given iier- 
fect satisfaction in every case. Jewelers and the trade are supplied 
by Mr. Jeaneret who will also furnish testimonials and circulars 
giving full information on application. 

GEORGE D. BROWN <!i CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Mutton, La^b, V'eal and Poultry. Stall No. 15, New Faneuil 
Hall Market.— Brown's pickled lambs' tongues have at- 
tained international celebrity as a great popular nutritious 
delicacy, and the result of this branch of Boston's skilled indus- 
tries is that Mes.srs. Geo. D. Brown & Co. are the second largest 
bottlers of lambs' tongues in the world. Mr. George D. Brown es- 
tablished in business twenty-live years ago as a wholesale and re- 
tail dealer in mutton, Iamb, veal and poultry, and early developed 
a desirable connection and a growing trade in Boston and through- 
out New England. Upwards of twenty years ago, Mr. Brown, with 
characteristic enterprise, originated the idea of pickling lambs, 
tongues by wholesale, and of putting them up in bottles for the 
trade. He had the necessary energy to carry out his new depart- 
ure in its every delail, and pickling the tongues by a process th.at 
gives them an unrivalled flavor.and excellence, hespeedilycreated 
a new and flourishing branch of industry, and one that has now at- 
tained proportions of enormous magnitude. Mr. Brown now sells 
half a million tongues per annum. The raw tongues are received 
from Buffalo, Kansas City, Chicago and New England points, 
at No. 10 Faneuil Hall Square, 30x70 in size, where he has all ap- 
pliances at command, and employs a number of skilled hands in 
pickling and bottling. Tlie tongues are put up in pint, quart and 
two-quart gl.ass jars, and in kegs and barrels. It will reveal no 
private trade secret by our stating that Mr. Brown puts his lambs' 



tongues up in white-wine vinegar and boils them to a turn, spicing 
and specially preparing them before bottling. His is the oldest house 
engaged in this branch of trade ; he sends his tongues to all quar- 
ters of the globe, and has made the name of his house, and of Bos- 
ton, houseliold words at the extremities of the earth. Mr. Brown 
has by no means neglected to develop his trade in prime mutton, 
lamb, veal and poultry, and stall No. 15 New Fanueil Hall Market 
makes one of the finest displays in the city. He supplies numer 
ous large consumers in Boston, such as hotels, restaurants, etc., 
and sells to the trade within a radius of one hundred miles of the 
city, his meats giving unqualifled satisfaction. He supplies the 
leading hotels at Narragansett Pier, Newport, Crescent Beach, 
Magnolia, Cottage City and Martha's Vineyard. 

Th:e "CALIFORNIA INSURANCE CO., of San Francisco, 
„ Marine Agency for the Eastern States and British Pro- 
vinces, Nos. 41 and 43 Devonshire Street.— The clientage 
of this agency is of the best, and tew companies in the coun- 
try have warmer or more steadfast friends. Tills is owing to its 
broad and liberal methods and prompt settlements. The officers 
of the company are of the highest standing and its history is a credit 
to their management. The company was established in 1861, with 
a capital of $600,000 in gold. Its present cash assets are $1,300,000. 
It has received in premiums $6,000,000, and paid in losses over $3,000, 
000, besides dividends, etc. Tlie stock is largely owned by the 
directors, a guarantee of safety. The market value of the stock is 
fifty per cent, over par. It was this company, wiiich the Washing- 
ton Fire and Marine Insurance Co., of Boston, selected to reinsure 
all its marine risks. This reinsurance was taken by the Boston 
agents of the' California Insurance Co., in this city Messrs. E. 
Whitney i Co., who adjust and pay all marine losses in Boston. 
Foreign certificates are issued when required payable in Loudon, 
Liverpool or Paris. 

JEWELL & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 175 Washington 
street.— One of the leading Hrins of bankers and brokers in 
the city is that of Jewell & Co., No. 175 Washington Street. 
The business was established five years ago and the present 
elegant offices have been occupied since 1885. Messrs. Jewell & Co. 
deal in bonds, stocks and securities of every description, either 
outright or on account, and do a large business in railroad shares 
as well as in oil, grain and provisions. They have a wire direct 
from New York, and have correspondents in Chicago and tlie prin- 
cipal markets of the country enabling them to obtain the latest in 
formation on the fluctuations of the market. Mr. Jewell, who is a 
Massachusetts man, has had a long experience in the stock market 
and his judgment has been found unerring in important deals. He 
looks after his customers interests in tlie most faithful manner 
and during the four years he has been established has earned a 
flrst-elass name as a safe and conservative broker. 

THOMAS J. SMITH, Tea Broker; No. 34 Broad Street.— Of all 
the various articles comprehended in the food-supply trade 
there are none harder to procure in pure, fresh quality 
than te'as, and the greatest care should be exercised by the 
grocer in selecting his supplies from a reliable source. A repre- 
sentative broker in teas in this city is Mr. Tliomas J. Smith, who 
has been prominent in the business here since 1869, and who occu- 
pies eligible office quarters at No. 34 Broad Street. Mr. Smith is a 
Massachusetts man by birth and training, and has resided in Bos- 
ton since 1850. He was engaged in the grocery business from 1851 
to 1860, and is welland favorably known in Boston business circles. 
He brings to bear upon his present business the widest range of 
practical experience and an intimate knowledge of all the needs 
and requirements of the trade, while his influential connections 
with tne best source of supply enable him to supply the Boston 
market with teas of every grade and growth in quantities to suit, 
and at terms and prices which are rarely, if ever, duplicated else- 
where. All goods furnished through him are guaranteed to be 
strictly pure, fresh and reliable, and all orders of whatever magni- 
tude, are given prompt and careful attention. New season, fresh- 
crop teas of all grades are handled, including oolong, English, 
breakfast, Japan, young hyson, gunpowder, imperial Pekoe, Sou- 
chong, and other varieties, and the aim of Mr. Smith lias always 
been to meet every demand of this market. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, 
Stephen M. Crosby, President ; Frank W. Reynolds, Treas- 
urer, No. 18 Post Office Square.— Intimately connected witli, 
and indeed lorming an integral part of llic commercial and 
financial interests of tlie city of Boston, and equal to the largest 
banks in responsibility and practical necessity, are the various 
loan and trust companies. Prominent among these is the representa- 
tive and reliable Massacliusetts Loan and Trust Conipany,wlu)se offi- 
ces are centrally located at No. 18 Post Office Square. Tills corpo- 
ration was duly chartered In 1870, under the laws of Massachu- 
setts, with a paid-up capital of $500,000, and with liberty to increase 
to $1,000,000. Tlie management of this substantial company is in 
the hands of prudent and experienced business men, whose 
names are thorouglily familiar throughout financial and connuer- 
cial circles, as those of honoi-able and capable citizens. The list is 
as follows:— President, Stephen M.Crosby; treasurer. Frank W. 
Reynolds: directors, Samuel Atherton, Cyrus G. Beebe, Stephen 
M. Crosby, Isaac Fenno, Joseph H. Gray, Lyman Hollingsworth, 
Henry D. Hyde, Moses Kimball, Frank W. Reynolds, Henry A. 
Rice, Richard H. Stearns, Edward Whitney. All the usual rou- 
tine of a large general banking business is carried on, including 
the receiving of accounts of manufacturers, merchants and others 
subject to check at sight, wliile special rates of interest are al- 
lowed on money payable on fixed time. The company makes ad- 
vances on staple merchandise, foreign or domestic, on bills of lad- 
ing or warehouse receipts. The charter of the company gives au- 
thority to receive and hold, collect and disburse money, securities 
or property in trust or otherwise, from individuals, executors, ad- 
ministrators, guardians, trustees or, by the order of the court. The 
company likewise acts as trustee lor railroad and other corpora- 
tions, also as financial agent for any persons, societies, corpora- 
tions or municipal authorities. It is also agent for the payment of 
bonds, coupons, dividends, etc., and as transferagent for the stocks 
and bonds of incorporated companies. The following statement 
shows the condition of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company 
at close of business Nov. 30, 1888: Assets— Loixns on time, $1,751,- 
726.39; loans on demand, W19.072.63; total loan, 82.170,799.02; ex- 
penses, $8,351.87 : taxes, $6,003.25; cash,$163,632.09; total assets, $2,- 
348,786.23. Liabilities- Capital stock, $.500,000; surplus, $119,852.39: 
profit and loss, $38,520.03; undivided profits, $.39,698.29; bills and 
memo, payable, 5847,854.90: deposits subject to check, $802,4&5.03 ; 
dividends unpaid, $318: insurance. $.57.59. 

WJI GARRISON REED.Fire Insurance Agent and Brnker,No. 
25 Kilby Street.— Insurance is undoubtedly the right arm 
and main support of all businessenterprises.andassuch 
merits recognition and respect in this work. We have 
carefully watched the development of insurance ever since the 
great fires of Boston and Chicago, and especially have we traced 
the growth and success of the agency business. The insurance 
agent occupies an important position in the profession. He acts as 
the agent both of the company or companies he represents, and of 
the property owner who employs him to place his insurance. 
Usually he has a number of companies of good standing, and he 
will take the contract tor placing a line of insurance for a client 
and use his judgment in so doing. The insurance agent must 
necessarily be a thoroughly posted insurance man, that is, be com- 
petent to judge the nature and liability of a risk, and judge what 
an amount it should pay. The advantage to a property owner in 
employing such an agent is in the fact that he is relieved of 
much trouble and expense in placing his own insurance, espe- 
cially should it be a large line. Among the best known and 
most experienced insurance agents in Boston, is Mr. William 
Garrison Reed, of No. 25 Kilby Street. This gentleman, in partner- 
ship with his brother, the late Mr. T. Frank Reed, started business 
in 1868. and, since the death of his brother has continued the busi- 
ness alone. He was formerly located at No. 66 Devonshire Street, 
and in 1887 removed to his present address, No. 25 Kilby Street. 
Mr. Reed is a member of the Underwriters' Association and is the 
representative of the London Assurance Corporation, of England, 
and the Union Insurance Comp.iny of California. He effects in- 
surance at the lowest rates compatible with security, and has a 
large patronage both in and out of the city. The telephone con- 
nection is 1776. Mr. Reed is a native of this city, widely known and 
universally respected. 



WILLIAM W. LOWE, Real Estate, Mortgages and Insur- 
ance, Office: No. 31 State Street, Traveller Building.— 
Prominent among the most responsible and conserva- 
tive, real estate, loan and insurance brokers of Boston, 
is Mr. Wm. W. Lowe of No. 31 State Street. He has achieved an 
enviable reputiition for his enterprising yet sound and conserva- 
tive financial policy. Long active in commercial circles and famili- 
arized with the real estate market of Boston and its suburbs, he 
is a recognized authority thereon, and since establishing his office 
ten years ago, has developed an active trade, aiid a widespread, 
influential connection. He has carried through many important 
transactions in the sale and exchange of real estate, and those 
seeking remunerative investments can secure them to a certainty 
by negotiating through Mr. Lowe. He secures loans on bond and 
mortgage at reasonable rates of interest, and at lowest charges, 
and also offers the mortgages and debentures of the Kansas Mort- 
gage Investment Comi)any of Anthony, Kansas, of which corpora- 
tion he is the eastern agent. Tliese securities are the most desir- 
able of any offered to New England investors. The Company is 
managed most conservatively; it loans only to thirty-three per 
cent, of the value of the best farms and Kansas city property, and 
offers also the additional security of its own resources. Its in- 
vestors have never lost a dollar, and it has invested hundreds of 
thousands of dollars for eastern capitalists in western farm loans, 
in the best corn and wheat sections, saving all trouble, care or 
danger of loss. Those who seek the most remunerative invest- 
ment in this market, should write to Mr. Lowe for full details. 
Mr. Lowe is also prepared to place promptly and to bestadvantage 
full lines of fire insurance in the strongest companies. He con- 
trols the insuring of important business and residential property, 
and owners of city and suburban buildings, stocks of merchandise, 
can ,obtain lowest rates coupled with absolute security through 
him. He is a resident of Saugus, and has ever taken a hearty 
interest in securing public welfare and honest administration 
of affairs. He was this year nominated for •election as a mem- 
ber of the Legislature from the Essex District, and is a popular 
and respected citizen, whose honorable methods and sterling in- 
tegrity, render him specially qualified to conduct the large and 
growing business in which he is engaged. 

CHAPIN, TRULL & CO., Distillers of Pure New England Rum, 
No. 30 Central Street.— Recent improvements in the pro- 
cesses of distillation a.ssure the production of spirituous 
liquors, that are of the highest standard both in quality and 
purity. The representative, oldest and most noted house in Bos- 
ton, engaged in this growing and important industry, is that of 
Messrs. Chapin, Trull & Co., distillers of pure New England rum, 
whose office and salesrooms are located at No. 30 Central Street- 
The distillery, which is one of the largest and best equipped in the 
United States, is situated at Charlestown. This reliable house is up- 
wards of 100 years old and was carried on during tfiat period, under 
the firm names of Trull Brothers, Chase & Trull, and eventually in 
1877, the firm of Chapin, Trull & Co., was organized, and succeeded 
to the man.agement. On April 29th, 1886. Mr. Trull died after a suc- 
cessful and honorable career, and the business is now the property 
"of Mr. Nahum Chapin, who is a thoroughly qualified and practical 
distiller, fully conversant with every detail of this industry, and 
tlie requirements of the tr.ade and a critical public. The capacity 
of the distillery is about 3000 gallons daily, and the sales for the 
past year amounted to upwards of 1,000,000 gallons. Messrs. Chapin, 
Trull & Co., have always distilled their pure New England rum, 
fire copper,— entirely from superior molasses. In fact, the New 
England rum distilled by this popular firm is absolutely unrivalled 
for quality, flavor, purity and uniform excellence, while the prices 
quoted for it in all cases is regulated by the market. The trade of 
the firm extends throughout the entire United States and Canada, 
and large quantities are exported to Europe, South America 
Africa and Australia. The trade of this responsible house is stead- 
ily increasing, as consumers of this healthful liquor are becoming 
better acquainted with its merits. Mr. Nahum Chapin was born 
in Vermont, but has resided in Boston for the last forty-eight 
years, where he is highly regarded by the community for his 
energy, business ability and integrity. He is a piominent member 
of the Distillers' Association, aud one of Boston's public spirited 
and progressive citizens. 



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MASSACHUSETTS REAL ESTATE CO., Geo. Leonard Gen- 
eral Agent. No. 24fl Washington Street.— This representa- 
tive company was duly incorporated in 1SS5, under the 
laws of Massachusetts, with an autliorized capital of $2,- 
000,000. It was organized for the purpose of investing its capital in 
the purchase of commercial real estate in the business centres of 
large and growing cities, not with a view to .speculation by selling 
when a profit can be secured, but tor the purpose of holding all 
property acquired as permanent assests of the corporation from 
which a steady and increasing income will arise in rentals to be 
applied to the payment of dividends on the stock. Since its or- 
ganization this company has earned over ten per cent, per annum 
on its capital invested up to the present day. The company issues 
shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. The shares 
have coupons bearing interest at the rate of five per cent, payable 
semi-.anuu.ally, until J.an. 15, 1891. These coupons are payable on 
the twenty-fifth day of January and July of each year. The surplus 
remaining after the p.ayinent of the interest due according to the 
coupons will be accumulated tor a period of five years from the 
time the company was organized (that is, until Jan. 15, 1891), .and 
will be devoted to the purchase of real estate, thus increasing the 
assets and earning capacity of the company. After this date the 
full net earnings will be paid out to the stockholders, materially 
increasing their dividends. As the surplus being accunuilated en- 
hances the value of shares, persons purchasing shares must pay 
their v.alue ,as adjusted. Adjustments are made on the fifteenth 
days of January, April, July, and October of each year. The Mas- 
sachusetts Real Estate Company only purchases commercial real 
est.ate, by which is meant blocks and buildings in the centres of 
rapidly growing cities. It never buys farms, dwelling houses, or 
property of any kind, outside the business centre of a thriving city. 
All its buildings are fully insured as likewise the rent rolls, so that 
in case a building is destroyed by fire the company will continue to 
receive the rents until the building is repaired or rebuilt. All tlie 
titles of the company's real estate are insured in the Massachusetts 
Title Insurance (Jompany. In carrying out its plans, the company 
now owns a number of splendid buildings in Boston, Taunton and 
Providence, which are valued at over a million dollars. These 
buildings include such properties as the Advertiser Building, No. 
246 Washington Street. Boston; the Bertram Building which adjoins 
the Mutual Life Insurance Company's Building, near Post Office 
Square, Boston, and the Niles Building, near Dock Square, Boston, 
occupied by the John P. Lovell Arms Company; the Reed Building, 
Faneuil H.all Square. The following gentlemen are theofficersand 
directors: President. Porte W. Hewins, treasurer Boston Trust Co. • 
trea,surer, I,ames Y. Anthony, treasurer Antliony & Cushman T.ick 
Co.; directors, Hon. George F. Bemis of Boston; Hon. William S. 
Greene, ex-mayor of Fall River ; Col. Samuel C. Hart, New Bedford, 
firm of Hart & Akin ; Hon. George K. Phillips, chairman commit- 
tee of finance for the city of Providence, R. I ; Hon. William Reed, 
jun., pres.Taunton Board of Trade ; Judge William H. Fox, Taunton, 
trustee Bristol County County Savings Bank ; George A. Washburn 
Esq., treasurer City of Taunton ; James Y. Anthony, Esq. .Taunton • 
Porte W. Hewins, Esq.. Taunton; auditors: George A. W.asburn, 
Taunton ; B. C. Peirce, treasurer Presbrey Stove Lining Co, ; banks 
of deposit: Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co., Boston, Mass.; 
M.aehinist N>ational Bank, Taunton, Mass. General Agent, George 
Leonard, clerk of corporation. Parke W. Hewins. The following is 
a summary of the financial affairs of the Massachusetts Real Estate 
Conipany, June 30, 1888: authorized capital, 82,000,000: capital paid 
in, $550,000; par value of stock, $100; price per share, $113.50; price 
of stock July 1, 1888, $1 14. The company's shares are recommended 
as an absolutely safe investment fortrustees or guardians. Further 
information and details are cheerfXilly given on application at the 
company's office, by Mr. Geo. Leonard, the general agent. 

THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY of Nashua, N. 
H., No. 8 Congress Street.— In conse(|uence of the growing 
scarcity of remunerative and safe investments in the east, 
capitalists and others are now turning their attention to 
the desirable and profitable openings afforded by the farm mort- 
gages of the west. The first f.act connected with these western 
farm mortgages is that they are absolutely secure, if the loan is 
placed through organized and expert hands, and second, that the 
income is as sure and more than double what can be got from gov- 



ernment bonds, eastern loans or saving banks. To those desirous 
of investing in these western mortgages to advantage, we wouldl 
specially direct them to the reliable and progressive American In- 
vestment Company of Nashua, N. H., whose Boston office is cen- 
trally located at No. 8 Congress Street. This Company was duly 
incorpor.ated June 22d, ISS.i. under the laws of New Hampshire, 
with a paid up capital of SlOO.OuO,- which has been further aug- 
mented by a surplus of $30,000. The following gentlemen, are the 
officers and directors; D. R. Sortwell, president; C. J. Gleason, 
treasurer; W. M. Upham, assistant treasurer; W. W. Wick, west- 
ern manager ; Finance committee : D. R. Sortwell, Edwin Dresser, C. 
J. Gleason, Wm. C. Avery. Board of directors : D. R. Sortwell, presi- 
dent of Montpelier & Wells River Rail Road Company president 
of Cambridge National Bank, East Cambridge, Mass., firm of Sort- 
well & Co., East Cambridge, Mass. ; Blwin Dresser, president of 
National City Bank, Cambridgeport, Mass., director of Cambridge 
Savings Bank, Cambridge, Mass., president of Cambridgeport 
Diary Company; Wm. C. Avery, firm of Avery & Thayer, Norfolk. 
Mills, Dedham, Mass.; C. J. Gleiison, Attornay, Montpelier, Vfe, 
firm of Goss & Gleason, Vergennes, Vt. ; Wm. G. Ward. Lowell, 
M.ass., trustee of Mechanics Savings Bank, of Lowell; Daniel 
Marcy, Portsmouth, N. H., trustee of Portsmouth Savings Bank, 
director of New Hampshire National Bank. Portsmouth, director 
of Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Company : Fred H. Buttrick, 
Lowell, Mass., treasurer of City Institution for .Savings of Lowell; 
John H Goodale, Nashua, N. H., ex-secretary of the st.ate of New 
Hampshire, vice president of Indian Head Insurance Company of 
Nashua; J. C. BulKard. East Cambridge, M.ass., cashier Cambridge 
National Bank. The company makes a specialty of western farm 
mortgages, and also deals in water company, school, county and 
town bonds. The f.arm mortgages bear four per cent interest in 
semi-annual payments, and the principal and interest are always 
fully guaranteed. The company's loans are on first mortgage only 
on farms of reputable and thoroughly responsible farmers; the 
security moreover must be worth three times the amount of the 
mortgage, while the terms are strict and explicit. The loans of 
this company are confined to the best sections of the fertile states 
of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesotia, where farms are 
constantly rising in value. The company is trans,acting a very 
safe business. 

GENERAL A. YBARRA, Coffee and Cocoa Importer, No. 7 
Exchange Place.— The finest cocoa in the world is th.at 
grown in the state of Caracas, Venezuela, and from which 
is manufactured the most delicious chocolate in the mar- 
ket. Among the largest plantation owners in that fertile re- 
gion, is the family of General A. Ybarra, whose estates are culti- 
vated with the utmost care, and upon the most improved methods. 
They are some of the largest and most successful growers of coffee 
and cocoa in Venezuela : and Ybarra coffee and chocolate are eag- 
erly sought for by the best class of trade in the United States, and 
the General's name has become a veritable trade-mark. The Gen- 
er.al is now .actively engaged in the direct importation of Ybarra 
coffee and chocolate, from a certain number of plantations. Gen- 
eral Ybarra controls' tlie most famous chocolate manufacturers of 
Caracas. It is made from the best cocoa grown in the world, and 
with .absolute purity, jthe only ingredients being pure Caracas 
cocoa and cane sugar, the natural products of the country. This 
chocolate is not only the purest, but the most fragrant .and deli- 
cious, it is more economical than any other brand, and is harmless 
to invalids and children, and can be used continuously .as an arti- 
cle of food, producing a mild tonic effect, fattening the body and 
strengthening the 'system against fatigue and disease. The Gen- 
eral h,as been estiiblished in business in Boston for eight years 
p.ast. and has developed a trade of great magnitude, selling to 
wholesale houses, jobbers and dealers. likewise to the trade at far 
distiint points. Both its to price and quality he offers substantial 
inducements, while his commercial policy is one of honor and in- 
tegrity. General Ybarra was long a general officer of the Vene- 
zuelan army and patriotically led the forces of his native land in 
defence of liberty. He is .as .able and popular a merchant as ho 
was a military commander, and has developed a trade of great 
and growing magnitude, and one of the utmosfvalue to Boston 
and the United Slates, where the best and purest food products are 
always in sucli demand. 



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THE WM. H. BRETT ENGRAVING CO., Steel Plate Engravers 
and Printers, Reuben Carpenter, Manager, No. 30 Bromfleld 
Street.— Tlie steady and marvelous progress made in steel 
plate engraving and kindred brandies during tlie last 
'quarter of a century is one of tlie notable features that mark tlie 
period in which we live. With tlie inventions. Improvements and 
■ oilier .iccessories discovered, a degree of excellence akin to perfec- 
tion h.is been attained in this industry during the time mentioned. 
Among the foremost exponents and best known men engaged in 
the business is Mr. Reuben Carpenter, manager of The \Vm. H. 
Brett Engraving Co., at No. 30 Bromfleld Street, who sustains a 
most excellent and Al. reputation for fine work in this line : and 
• as a consequence is in jiossession of a very extensive and flattering 
patronage. Mr. Carpenter is an Englishman by birth, of about 
fifty years of age, and has been a citizen of the tinited States, and 
resident of Boston ever since 1868. This house was cstablisiicd 
"Originally under its present title by Mr. Win. H. Brett in 1879, and 
soon found its way into popular favor and confidence by the excel- 
lent character of its work. Mr. Brett was succeeded in 1884 by 
Messrs. Frizzell and Carpenter who still retained the large patron- 
age by maintaining the high character of the house's previous pro- 
ductions, and in February, 1S87, Mr. Carpenter assumed the entire 
control and nian.ageinent of the business, which has greatly in- 
creased under his direction. The premises utilized comprise two 
spacious and commodious rooms— oltice and showroom— which are 
very neatly and tastefully arranged, and supplied with every con- 
venience and all the latest improved appliances necessary for the 
production of the very highest class of work known in the profes- 
sion, also everything in new designs for all kinds of engraved 
work, and when desired originals are made to order. A number 
of skilled and first-class artists are kept in constant employment 
whose operations are conducted under the immediate supervision 
.of the proprietor, who havingserved a longand faithful apprentice- 
ship and many years of practical experience, permits no work to 
leave the premises that does not come up to the higliest standard 
*f artistic excellence. Mr. Carpenter is prepared to execute 
everything in the line of commercial steel engraving and printing, 
such as letter, note, and bill-lieads, business and visiting cards, 
steel plate folders for menus, orders of dancing, wedding invita- 
tions, condolence cards, crests, monograms, stamping, vignettes, 
etc.. and no pains are spared to render the fullest s.itisfaction, while 
liis prices are extremely reasonable, and none but first-class work 
is turned out from this establishment. 

R1CE& HOLWAY, Commission Merchants, for the Sale of But- 
ter, Cheese. Eggs, and Beans, Dressed Poultry, Game, Etc.; 
Domestic Fruit and General Produce ; Store and Office, Nos. 
15 North Market and 15 Clinton Streets ; Butter Department, 
Basement, No. 15 North Market Street.— For enterprise, drive and 
success, the firm of Messrs, Rice & Holway take a prominent place 
among the commission houses doing business in tliis market. Es- 
tablished in 1872 this house has continued to increase and develop 
its trade until now it has assumed a very important place in the 
commission business. The founders were Messrs. Gould, Rice & 
Co., wlio continued in partnership until 1876, wlien the firm was re- 
organized and became, as now. Rice & Holway, the present 
partners being Mr. A. Mellen Rice iind Mr. Thomas E. Holway. 
The former is a native of Maine and tlie latter was born on Cape 
Cod. Both are active and prominent members of the Boston Fruit 
and Produce Excliange and also of the Cliamber of Commerce, and 
have had v.ast experience in their line of trade. Tlie firm handle 
on commission, dressed poultry, game, domestic fruit and general 
produce of every description. They occupy commodious and well- 
appointed premises. As a salesroom and office the store running 
tlirougli from No. 15 North Market Street to No. 15 Clinton Street; 
and a three-story building at No. 15 Ferry Street is occupied for 
storage. Tlie establishment is provided with refrigerators and all 
other necessary appliances for facilitating the handling of the ex- 
tensive stocks carried and the prompt shipment of all orders. The 
firm are daily in receipt of fresh consignments, and their favorable 
relations with producers and shippers enable them to fill the 
largest orders with dispatch and at the lowest market quotations 
The transactions of the house are extensively of a wholesale char- 
acter and necessitate the employment of twelve assistants, and 
the standing of the firm in the trade is Al. 



DAVID W. LEWIS, New Elrgtand Agent for Akron Sevwr and 
Drain Pipe, Boston Office, No. 80 Water Street.— This busi- 
ness was established eigliteen years ago by Messrs. Lewia 
& Millett, who conducted it till 1872, when on the retire 
ment of Mr. Millett, Mr. Lewis became sole proprietor. Mr 
Lewis is the New England agent for the famous Akron sewer and 
drain pipe, land tile, fire elay chimney flue linings, terra cotta 
chimney tops, wind guards, stove linings mixture, etc. He also 
deals largely in Are brick. Highland stone vases and cement, 
and is New England agent for the celebrated "Akron Star 
Brand Cement." According to offlcral reports a very large per 
cent, of all fires from known causes, are from defective flues and 
chimneys. The importance of having a building perfectly safe 
from fire in connection with the chimneys was never more felt f lian 
now. To assure this, attention is ca?Ied to the Are clay chimney 
flue lining. It is claimed for this: 1. That it is made of pure fire 
clay, unglazed, and is warranted to stand the greatest heat, and 
consequently is as durable as the chimney itself. 2. It effectually 
protects the building against fires, which so frequently originate 
from defective flues. 3. It being smooth, the soot does not adhere 
as to rough mortar surface, and it rarely fails to secure perfect 
draft. It is easily encased in the brick, and made in size for any 
ordinary chimney. The cost is trifling compared with the results 
gained. In unlined chimneys the action of soot and e,ases will 
cause the mortar to crumble and fall out from between the 
bricks, leaving crevices through whieh the fire is liable to work its 
way. Where lining is used this great danger is avoided. The 
Akron sewer pipe is well known by experts to be iinriv,illed for 
conducting sewerage, and is so constructed that perfect connection 
can be made from one pipe to the other, so that no leakage w hat- 
ever can possibly occur. Mr. Lewis is also agent for Ctapp's sewer 
inlet caps, which have gained an excellent reputation for efficiency 
and durability. All orders for sewer and drain pipe, etc., are 
promptly and carefully filled at the lowest possible prices, and the 
trade of this responsible house, which is both wholesale and retail, 
now extends throughout all sections of New England. Mr. Lewis' 
yards, which are spacious and fully stocked, are situated at No. 41 
Boylstou Avenue, Jamaica Plain, corner Portl.ind and Cambridge 
Streets. Eiist Cambridge. Mr. Lewis is a nativeof Walpole, Mass., 
but has resided in Boston for the last eighteen years, where he is 
highly regarded in business circles for his promptness, enter- 
prise and just methods. The telephone call ol the house is ISVg. 

BALDERSTON & DAGGETT, Sole Agents for National India 
Rubber Company, Empire Rubber Shoe Company, Imperial 
Rubber Company, Nos. 28, 30, 32 and 34 Lincoln Street, near 
Summer.— As a source of supplies of every kind of manu- 
factured goods the city of Boston possesses advantages and facili- 
ties to meet the wants of the country equal, if not superior, to any 
other city in the union. Numerous and varied as are the indus- 
tries here carried on they are ever multiplying, happily as tlie city 
expands itself and the population increases One of the enter- 
prises which have gained a permanent establishment in our midst 
and assumed a leading position in its line, is that conducted by 
Messrs. Balderston & Daggett, the sole agents for the National 
India Rubber Company, the Empire Rubber Slioe Company, and 
the Imperial Rubber Company, located at Nos. 28. 30, 32 and 34 Lin- 
coln Street, near Summer Street. Founded in 1879, this concern 
has had a remarkably successful career, and vigilance, push and 
the highest commercial integrity have been its characteristics 
from the outset. Their premises form one of the most commodious 
and finest business establishments on the street. They comprise 
an entire building, containing five floors .and b.asement, the whole 
standing on an area of 40x100 feet. The fittings and equipments of 
the establishment are the best that skill and capital can produce, 
and there is tliroughout a neatness and method in the general 
arrangements which cannot escape the attention of a visitor on 
entering. The stock carried is immense and comprehensive, em- 
bracing, as it does, every conceivable article into the manufacture 
of which rubter enters. The firm, being the sole agents of the 
producers, .and receiving their supplies direct from the maunfac- 
tories, cannot be undersold in the market, while they are able to 
offer terms with which no other house can conqjete. The pro- 
prietors are aged respectively 55 and 38 years, both are natives of 
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HARRINGTON & FREEMAN, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, 
Clocks, Silverware and Optical Goods. No. 59 Court Street. 
— One ot the most prominent and iiopular establishments 
in tlie jewelry trade in Boston is tliat of Messrs Harring- 
ton & Freeman, located at No 59 Court Street, opposite Adams 
Express. This firm are e.\tensive retail dealers in watches diii- 
monds, jewelry, eIocl<s, silverware and optical goods, and have 
been established in the business here since 1S79. The store is very 
desirably situated for trade purposes, elegantly fitted up, and per- 
fect in convenience of arrangement for inspection and sale. A 
very large stock is carried in every line and special effort has 
been made to preserve uniform excellence in quality and make. 
Tliis has been made fully possible by the splendid connections of 
tlie house with manufacturers and importersof the highest repute, 
and the contiuual activity ot the proprietors in exacting tribute 
from every source that promises increased usefulness and popu- 
larity. In American niid f.^viffn wnti-lic:. French and American 




clocks, bronzes, rich jewelry and charms, solid silver and plated 
ware, gold and silver ornaments, and optical goods, the .issort- 
ments are rarely equalled in the city. Precious stones of all kinds 
are kept in abundance, including a choice supply of diamonds, dis- 
tingnislied for purity, beauty and perfect sliape All tliese goods 
are selected with care and judgment, exhibiting a wide range in 
value and calculated to meet the wants of the greatest possible • 
number of buyers. A corps ot six assistants is employed, and the 
house is well prepared to give the best satisfaction in all its opera- 
tions, being consistent in all its determination to furnisli only 
tlrst-class goods and reliable work on the most advantageous terms 
that can be afforded. Ample capital is employed in the enterprise, 
and it is recognized as an important factor in the mercantile 
activity of the city. The members of the firm, Messrs. L. T. Har- 
rington and Geo. T. Freeman, are both practical jewelers and ex- 
perienced, progressive and successful merchants. Mr. Harrington 
is a native of New Hampshire, while Mr. Freeman was born in 
Roxbury, Mass. They operate a branch store at No. 102 Court 
Street, and enjoy the respect and esteem of the entire conimuity. 

CH. McKENNEY & CO., Manufacturers of Gas Fixtures, 
Electroliers. Fine Lamps and Fire Place Goods, Nos. 634 
and 636 Washington Street.— Tlie wonderful growth at- 
tained by the city of Boston during recent years, as a 
mercantile and manufacturing centre, is largely due to the energy 
and intelligent enterprise of the men wlio conduct our representa- 
tive houses in every branch of trade, while on every hand is seen 
the coloss.al results of their ability and perseverance. In this con- 
nection it is a pleasure to record the char.acter and career ot a 
thoroughly representative Boston concern, and one which in its 
particular line has distanced all competitors, and won the proud 
position of leader of the trade. We refer to the house of Messrs. 
C. H. McKenney & Co., manufacturers of gas fi.xtures, electroliers, 
fine lamps and fire place goods, at Nos. &34 and 636 Washington 
Street. This house was originally established in W!n, by Messrs. 
C. H. McKenney and C. H. McKenney, Jr., and from a modest 
beginning the operations of the firm steadily grew, until it had 
won in a few short years a national reput<ation for the artistic and 
superior excellence of its productions. The lamented death ot the 
senior partner in March, 1888, left his son as the sole proprietor, 
who now continues this immense business upon the same broad 
basis of energy and enterprise for which it had become so widely 



noted. The f.ictory, located on Beach Street, is admirably ar- 
ranged and e<|uipped in all its departments, while employment is 
furnished in tlie I.actory and workshop to seventy five skilled and 
expert hands. Each department is under the management ot a 
competent head, and the whole is regulated by a system and order 
that facilitates the transaction of business, and assures the 
prompt execution of orders. The splendid show rooms on Wash- 
ington Street, comprising three floors, 25x100 feet e.ach, and two 
floors of an adjoining building, make a magnificent display, and 
are a prominent attraction of;this busy thoroughfare. No other 
house in its line is its equal, while in the qualities of adaptability 
and true art this house possesses facilities in designing and manu- 
facture nowhere else to be found. Artists, both native and for- 
eign, are constantly employed in designing and modelling subjects 
to be produced in both real and iinit.ation bronze, as also in all 
ornamental and elegant styles of gas and electric-light fixtures. 
The immense stock here gathered together torins the best 
exponent of this line of goods ever presented to a discerning pub- 
lic. Business is brisk and lively at all seasons, and the house is an 
important and still growing factor in niaintaining the commercial 
supremacy ot this great metropolis. 

ARTHUR YOUNG & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Masons' Building Materials, Wharf, Albany Street, Corner 
Lehigh Street, Office No 54 Kilby Street.— One of the oldest, 
leading and best known concerns devoted to the handling 
of masons' materials in this city is tliat of Arthur Young & Co., 
(successors to C. Y'oung & Co..) wholesale and retail dealers in 
cement, lime, laths, pl.aster, brick, etc., whose office is located at 
No. 64 Kilby Street, with wharf on .'Albany Street, corner Lehigh 
Street, and which for upward of half a century has maintained a 
prominent position in its line in Boston. This flourishing business 
was established in 1838 by C. Young, who under the style of C. 
Young & Co. conducted the same for many years and was suc- 
ceeded by his sons Arthur and William B.. and under the firm 
n.ime ot Arthur Young & Co. it has since been continued with un- 
interrupted success: the senior partner recently assuming sole 
control. The wharf and premises at corner Albany and Lehigh 
Streets are spacious and well equipped, ample and complete facili- 
ties being at hand, while a very heavy, firstcl.ass stock is con- 
stantly carried including everything in the line of m.isons' build- 
ing supplies— cement, lime, hair, laths, plaster, brick, sand, drain 
pipe, fire brick, etc.. etc. A large |n umber of men are employed, 
while several teams owned by the firm are in steady service sup- 
plying customers. All orders by telephone or otherwise receiving 
prompt attention, and the trade of the firm, which is of a most sub- 
stantial character, extends all over the city and surrounding towns. 
Mr. Arthur Young, who is now the sole proprietor, is a man of entire 
responsibility in his business trans.ictions, .is well as a gentleman 
of energy and thorough experience in this line, and sustains an 
excellent reputation in the building trade. Half a dozen 
schooners or more are employed bringing different materials from 
the various points where they are manufactured. Messrs. Young 
& Co. are large importers of English Portland cement, buying 
direct of the manufacturers in London, England, their principal 
brand being the "Phoenix," which is well known all over the New 
England .States. 

JAMES E.WHITNEY, Importer E.ast India Good, No. 13 
Doane Street.— Mr. James E. Whitney, the widely and favor- 
ably known importer of East India goods, was born in New- 
buryport, and early in life bec.ime connected with Boston's 
leading commercial circles, and here niiide tlie rapid progress due 
to his superior qualifications. Over thirty yearsago he established 
in business upon his own account as direct importer of East 
India products, such as hides, skins, indigo, cutch and other dye- 
stuffs, saltpetre, etc., and early developed important relations 
throughout the United States. He has ever sustained an enviable 
reputation for his methods and the superior quality of his goods, 
which are directly imported from the most famous Calcutta and 
other houses, and are in staple demand as the best in the market, 
and concerning whose prices substantial inducements are manifest. 
Mr. Whitney always has a he.avy stock in the luiblic stores, and is 
prepared to promptly fill the largest orders from dealers, manu- 
facturers, mills, etc. 



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BAY STATE MANITFACTUKING COMPANY. Egg Beaters, 
Etc., No. 30 Hanover Street.— The Bay State Manufacturing 
Company possesses a national reputation and widespread 
foreign connections as manufacturers of and dealers in 
wire, metal and glass specialties and novelties. Tlie business was 
originally established in 1880, by Mr. H. H. Rogers, who was suc- 
ceeded by Mr. S. H. Dillingliam in 1887, under the present title. 
The manufacturing department is equipped with ample steam 
power and every modern convenience. Among the leading speci- 
alties here manufactured is the Dexter egg beater, which is an ex- 
act fac-siinile of the Dover, the patent upon which expired May 
31st, 1887. For seventeen years past it has been considered by tlie 
trade all over the world as the best ever made. The peculiar 
inter-shearing action of the cutting blades makes it the most ef- 
fective and perfect egg beater, and probably its superior will never 
be invented. The Bay State egg beater, another specialty, has 
been the best seller in the past and will continue to be. It has 
been greatly improved by a new patent handle, formed flat on top 
and curved to tit the thumb and fingers. No egg beater has ever 
before been made with a reasonable handle, and shaped so that a 
lady can hold it firmly while turning tlie gear wheel. The Boston 
egg beater is like the Bay State, except in the cutting device. All 
the beaters made by this comjiany can be tipped at any angle on 
the spindle rest, wliiie the Dover strikes and stops if not held 
straight. The leading features in these beaters are covered by 
patents and patents applied for, while no otlier beaters are in- 
fringed by them. This company have dropped their prices to meet 
the low figures caused by recent infringements of some egg beat- 
ers. The New England egg beater is a new invention just intro- 
duced by this company. It has the handle and spindle ingeniously 
constructed ,trom one continuous rod of wire, the gear wheel and 
handle cast in one piece, and is altogether the simplest and best 
cheap egg beater ever put upon the market. The Bay State towel 
rack, (patented,) is the most ingenious and taking article recently 
put upon the market. The Bay State clothes rack, the Bay State 
two-liook clothes rack with hat hook, the trl-mountain clothes and 
Jiat rack, and the Bay State coat hanger are all important and 
valuable specialties. Special mention should also be made of the 
Bay State sugars, as being one of the most novel and meritorious 
specialties lately introduced. Every time the sugarbowl is tipped 
it will throw exactly a teaspoonful of sugar. The trade for fancy 
salts, peppers and mustards has been enormous. The electric 
fruit jar, manufactured by this company, is better than the Mason- 
Improved or Porcelain-lined, because the cover has an elastic 
spring lock, and acts equally well under expansion or contraction. 
Locke's automatic pie turner, lifter and fork combined is another 
most useful household article sold by this house. The little coffee 
steeper saves one fourth in amount of coffee used and greatly im- 
proves the quality and flavor. All these specialties, with other 
novelties introduced by this company, have a large and increas- 
ing sale not only in all parts of the United States, but throughout 
the West Indies, England, Germany, Australia, South America and 
other foreign countries. Mr. Dillingham is a native of Everett, 
Mass., and well known by the trade every where as an enter- 
prising, progressive and successful manufacturer. 

OH. ATESHIAN & CO., Direct Importers of Turkish and 
Persian Goods, Fine Carpets, Rugs and Portiers, Etc., No. 
, 68 Boylston Street.— One of the most attractive among 
tlie handsome stores for whicli Boston is noted, is that of 
O. H. Ateshian & Co., direct importers of Turkish and Persian 
goods. The business was established in 1886 at No. 44 Boylston 
Street, and two years later was removed to the eligible premises 
DOW occupied at No. 68 on that thoroughfare, which consist of a 
store 25x72 feet in dimensions, and a portion of the second floor, 
and a spacious basement. Throughout the establishment presents 
a novel and striking appearance, the richness and elegance of the 
goods at once attracting attention. The assortment is as inter- 
esting as it is unique and embraces fine Turkish and Persian car- 
pets and rugs and portiere, and art fabrics of every description, and 
also fancy goods, choice embroideries for draperies and interior 
decorations of both antique and modern designs and also a great 
variety of oriental costumes wliich are a specialty, and displayed 
in great profusion in silk and other fabrics. This firm is one of the 
largest importers of oriental goods in the country and exhibit 



many rare beautiful specimens of fancy articles and fabrics to be 
found in no other establishment. Of course a large business is 
carried on, tlie patrons including tlie best class of cultured and re- 
fined citizens. Mr. Ateshian. the head of the establishment, is a 
native of Constantinople, Turkey, and came here in 1882, and after 
a four years' course in Amherst, and Boston University, graduated 
with distinguished honors. He spends his snniineis in tlie Orient 
and visits both Turkey and Persia, where he makes his own selec- 
tions and is constantly receiving fresh invoices of beautiful goods, 
direct from those places and he and his three assistants will be 
found courteous and pleasant and take pleasure in displaying the 
various art fabrics and all the various oriental goods that have 
been brought together by the firm from those far off countries. 

SHILLINGS, WHITNEYS & B.^^RNES LUMBER COMPANY. 
David Wliitney, Jr., President; Henry L. Tibbetts, Treasurer. 
Eastern Office, No. 5 Kilby Street.— The representative and 
most enterprising house in the city of Boston in the lumber 
trade is that known as the Skillings, Whitneys& Barnes Lumber 
Company. This extensive business was originally established in 
1857 by Messrs. Chas. Whitney, D. N. Skillings, L. Barnes, and D. 
Whitney, Jr., as C. & D. Whitney, Jr., of Ogdensburg, N. V., and 
Lowell, Mass.; S. N. Skillings & Co., of Boston; and L. Barnes & 
Co., of Burlington, Vt. In 1878, these firms were consolidated, and 
the business was duly incorporated with a paid uu capital of $250,- 
000. The present offlcers of the company are David Whitney, Jr., 
president ; Henry L. Tibbetts, treasurer ; W. L. Proctor, Ogdens- 
burg manager; D. W. Robinson, Burlington manager. Mr. D. N. 
Skillings died in 1880, Mr. L. Barnes in 1884, and Mr. Chas. Whitney 
in 1887. The company ;have extensive steam planing mills at Og- 
densburg, N. Y'., and Burlington, Vt., where several hundred work- 
men are employed. A specialty is made of dressed and rough pine 
lumber, of which the company handle immense quantities, its trade 
extending not only throughout all sections of the Middle and Naw 
England States, but also to the West Indies, Mexico, Central and 
South America, Europe, Africa and Australia. The company have 
their own vessels on the lakes, and export to foreign parts from Bos- 
ton and New York. Their facilities and resources are such that the 
largest orders are promptly and carefully filled at the lowest rul- 
ing market prices, an advantage that the trade is quick to appre- 
ciate. Mr. David Whitney, Jr., the president, is a resident of De- 
troit, Mich. He is largely interested in banking, timber lands, etc., 
and has three large saw mills in Michigan. Mr. Henry L. Tibbetts, 
the treasurer, manages the Boston business. We would observe in 
conclusion, that the affairs of the Skillings, Whitneys & Barnes 
Lumber Company are placed in able and honorable hands, and it 
worthily maintains a prominent position in this important and val- 
uable industry, reflecting tlie greatest credit on all concerned. 

D WIGHT BRAJIAN & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 82 
Devonshire Street, Corner Water Street.— As a great in- 
vestment and speculative centre, Boston stands second only 
to New York, and has of recent years become one of the most 
active markets in the United States for sound desirable securities. 
Among the most active and enterprising firms of bankers and brok- 
ers in Boston and New England, is that of Messrs. Dwight Braman 
&Co., of No. 82 Devonshire Street. Mr. Braman is a native or Bos- 
ton, and though a young man, is old-experienced in banking and 
the stock market, and very widely and favorably known throughout 
New York and New England financial circles. He started in busi- 
ness upon his own account in 1879, and has been an active and per- 
manent membfer of the Boston Stock Exchange ever since that 
date. He has most desirable connections, and has correspondents 
on the New Y'ork, Pliihadelphia and Chicago Stock Exchanges. He 
transacts a general business in receiving deposits subject to check 
at sight; all securities listed or dealt in on the Boston, New York 
and Philadelphia Exchanges. Desirable investment securities are 
a specialty, and he offers stocks and bonds that pay a very hand- 
some and steady income at prices quoted. He numbers among his 
customers leading capitalists and operators of Boston and New 
England, and offers every Lacility, fullest .and latest information, 
prompt filling of all orders, and an honorable, equitable policy. 
He is a conservative and responsible member of financial circles, 
universally popular on 'Ch.ange, and is a worthy exponent of 
sound methods and able financial policy. 



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GEO. D. OTIS & CO., Bonded Truckmen and General For- 
warders, No. 173 State Street. Stands: Nos. 61 Chatham 
Street. 35 and 48 Union Street, Boston, and Continental 
Sugar Keflnery, South Boston.— The coinmercLal supremacy 
of Boston is greatly aided by tlie facilities afforded trade by our 
leading truckmen and forwarders, like the firm of Geo. D. Otis & 
Co., wliose main office is at No. 173 State Street, with stands at Nos. 
61 Chatliam and 3.5 and 48 Union Streets, tliis city; and at the Con- 
tinental sugar Refinery, South Boston. This enterprise has been 
in successful operation for a period of tvventy-tliree years, and is 
managed by gentlemen who bring to bear the widest range o£ 
practical experience and whose connections and facilities are un- 
surpassed. Tlie firm are prepared to forward goods and merchan- 
dise to all portions of the globe, and are in a position to conduct 
all transactions under the most favorable conditions, to insure en- 
tire success and .satisfaction to all parties. They transact tlie 
leading business of this kind in the city, and have ever retained 
the confidence of the mercantile community. They give steady 
employment to thirty skilled and experienced hands to meet the 
exigencies of their business, and their patronage is especially 
large and active among leading importers, exporters and jobbers 
in this city, who confidently place in the hands of this firm goods 
of great value daily, relying upon the judgment, care and ability 
of tlie management to guard their interests safely and securely. 
The terms are invariably fair and equitable, and perfect satisfac- 
tion is assured in all cases. Mr. Otis, the active member of the 
firm, is a native of Lowell, iMass., and both as regards business 
ability and true American enterprise his house justly merits the 
splendid reputation and wide popularity which it has permanently 
attained. 

EDWIN M. FOWLE & CO., Foreign Sliipping and Commission 
Merchants, No. 34 India Wliarf.— Boston h,is ever main- 
tained a front position as a centre for the importation 
of foreign commerce, and it is here that are found the 
oldest and most enterprising firms engaged in tlie foreign shipping 
jind commission trade. One of the oldest established concerns of 
tlie kind is that of Messrs. Edwin M. Fowle & Company, of No. 34 
India Wharf. The history of this house dates back nearly a third 
of a century, the business having been founded under its present 
style In 1856 by Mr. Edwin M. Fowler, the present proprietor, who 
is one of the best known and most esteemed merctiants doing 
business at this port. Mr. Fowle was born at Jamaica Plains, 
Mass., fifty-seven years ago, and for the past thirty years has 
resided at Newton. Since 1875 he has been the consul at this port 
for San Domingo, an office which he has filled with great credit. 
Mr. Fowle occupies commodious premises that are in every way 
admirably adapted for the successful carrying on of his important 
.and extensive business, which consists of the importation of dye 
woods, sugar, coffee, and merchandise of every descrii>tion, and of 
the exportation of lumber, flour, ice, provisions and goods of all 
Tcinds. Mr. Fowle buys and sells products and manufactures of all 
kinds on commission both at home and abroad, and attends to 
shipments to and from domestic and foreign markets. He 
is rejiresented by agents in foreign ports, and has the best of 
facilities for carrying out all orders tlioroughly and satisfactorily. 
He is vigilant and zealous, has his large business systematically 
regulated and is always at the headotaffairs, seeing to the instruc- 
lions of his patrons being carried out to the letter. In his business 
<:areer he has won the respect of the mercantile community, and 
as held in the highest esteem by all. 

JORDAN, LOVETT & CO., Insurance, No. 60 State Street.— 
The development of the insurance interests of the city of 
Boston have been upon a scale of such magnitude, that the 
facilities afforded the community by our leading insurance 
brokers are of an exceptionally favorable character, both as re- 
gards low rates of premium, enormous combination of resources 
and absolute security for all risks taken. In this connection we 
desire to make suitable reference in this commercial review to 
the time-honored and responsible firm of Messrs. Jordan, Lovett & 
Company. This business was established in 1849 by W. H. S. Jor- 
dan and A. Lovett, fathers of the present members of the firm. 
They conducted the business till 1867 when they were succeeded by 
the present firm, the copartners being Messrs. L. S. Jordan and A. 



S. Lovett. They promptly effect insurance upon hotels, manufact- 
ories, mills, etc., carefully renew policies in proper season, and 
generally relieve the business community of all care and trouble in 
this important respect, while the rates ipioted by them are always 
as low as those of any other first-class house in the insurance busi- 
ness. The firm are Boston agents of the Greenwich Fire Ins. Co., of 
New York; Detroit Fire & Marine Ins. Co., of Detroit; Citizens Ins. 
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Fidelity Fire & Marine Ins., Co. Cincinnati, 
Ohio; and district agents of the Sun Fire Office, of England; Queen 
Ins. Co., of England ; Plienix Ins. Co., of New York; Massachusetts 
Mutual Ins. Co., of Boston ; Ins. Co., of North America, Phila. ; Penn- 
sylvania Fire Ins. Co., Phila., and others. Messrs. Jordan & Lovett 
are both natives of Boston, and her firm will always be fmind one of 
the best in the city, through which to advantageously obtain in- 
surance policies of every description, and with the least possible 
trouble or annoyance on the part of the insured. 

CHARLES L. DAVENPORT, Chelsea Salt Company, Salt of all 
Kinds, No. 170 State and No. 2 Commercial Streets.— A lead- 
ing house engaged in the wliolesale salt trade in Boston is 
that of Mr. Charles L. Davenport, located at Nos. 170 State 
Street and 2 Commercial Street. This house was originally estab- 
lished by the Chelsea Salt Company, who were succeeded by the 
present proprietor in 1874. The premises occupied for the business, 
consist of an office and salesroom on State Street, large storehouses 
at Caswell's and Mystic Wharf in Charlestown, and unsurpassed 
facilities are at hand for conducting the business upon the largest 
scale. Mr. Davenport has a wide reputation as an extensive im- 
porter and wliolesale dealer in salt of all kinds, and as the agent 
for Higgins' Eureka Fine Salt, supplying the trade In boxes, bags 
and by the ship load. His Caswell's wharf storehouses are con- 
nected by rail with all the railroads running out of Boston, thus 
enabling him to ship to all parts of the country without the expense 
of cartage. Tlie connections of the house with salt manufacturers 
of the highest repute places it in a position to command every fav- 
orable opportunity of the market and to offer inducements to the 
trade in quality and prices of goods which challenge comparison 
and defy successful competition. The business is broadly distrib- 
uted throughout the New England States, and is annually increas- 
ing in volume and importance under enterprising and reliable 
management. Mr. Davenport is a native and prominent citizen of 
Maiden, Mass., and is well and favorably known in this city as a 
merchant of rare business tact and ability, possessing a founda- 
tion understanding of all tlie requirements of his trade, and emi- 
nently popular and successful in meeting all its demands. 

PLUMER & CO., Commission Merchants in Flour, Grain and 
Hay, No. 173 State Street.— There is probably no single 
agency that has wielded a more healthful influence in favor, 
of the commercial advancement of Boston than the flour 
and grain trade, while the enterprise and activity of the houses 
engaged therein have been largely instrumental in securing an 
area of demand eo-exteusive with the limits of the country. 
Messrs. Pluiner & Co., at No. 173 State Street, operate one of the 
most prominent commission liouses for the sale of flour, grain 
and hay in the city, prosecuting a business of heavy proportions, 
and maintaining a most valuable reputation for adherence to the 
strictest principles of mercantile integrity in all transactions. 
The business was founded in 1.8.38 by Mr. Avery Flumer. His 
son, Charles A. Plumer, came into the concern in 1868, and 
formed the present firm in connection with Mr. Wm. L. Leavitt 
in May, 1887. The firm occupy two commodious offices at the 
above address, and carry a very large and valuable stock of 
the commodities dealt in at suitable warehouses on the line of the 
different railways centering in this city. This stock is uniformly 
superior in quality and is obtained from the most reliable sources 
of production. Thus orders of any magnitude are readily filled, 
and, owing to the excellent arrangements that tlie firm has effected 
with railroads, shipments are made to the remotest points at the 
lowest rates of freight. Messrs. Plumer &Co. offer unsurpassed 
advantages to producers, shippers and others, and consignments 
are disposed of without delay at the highest current prices. Re- 
mittances are made with promptitude and satisfaction. The co- 
partners are both natives of Massachusetts, of wide acquaintance 
and influential connections throughout New England. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



RR. HIGGINS & CO., Wholesale Dealers and Planters of 
Oysters, No. 35 Howard Street and Nos. 142 and 144 At- 
^ lantic Avenue.— Kepresentative In the wholesale oyster 
trade of New England is the widely and favorably known 
firm of Messrs. R. R. Higgins & Co., of No. 35 Howard .Street and 
Nos. 142 and 144 Atlantic Avenue. The public of New England and 
the provinces are great consumers of oysters and otiier shell fish, 
but their tastes are refined and their requirements exacting, and 
only the choicest growths find an extended market here. Realiz- 
ing tills fiict, Messrs. R. R. Higgins & Co. and their predecessors 
have ever devoted their attention solely to the best grades of Nor- 
folk ivnd Chesapeake, Providence River and native oysters, also 
clams, quahaugs, little necks and lobsters. This extensive busi- 
ness was founded in 1828 by the late Mr. John S. Higgins, a mer- 
chant of marked enterprise and energy, and who was the pioneer 
in opening up to Boston and New England this highly important 
branch of tr.ade. He developed it to proportions of great magni- 
tude, and upon his lamented decease, in 1866, he was succeeded 
by his sons, Messrs. R. R. and John S. Higgins, both of them 
thoroughly experienced in the business, they having been 
bronglit up in it from boyhood. Extending their connections, de- 
veloping their facilities, and giving their personal .attention to 
the filling of .all orders, the firm kept steadily enlarging their bus- 
iness until in 1S80 the untimely decease of Mr. John S. Higgins oc- 
curred. Mr. R. R. Higgins continued the business upon his own 
account until in 1887 he admitted into copartnership his nephew, 
Mr. Alfred S. Higgins, under the existing name .and style. The 
firm supply oysters in bulk, and at wholesale and retail, covering 
a territory of vast extent, including all New England, Northern 
New York, Quebec, etc. Their Boston trade is of the greatest 
magnitude, including leading dealers .and large consumers, such 
as oyster houses, restaurants, hotels, etc. They have largely in- 
creased their facilities, and have a large packing house in Nor- 
folk, Va., where they employ fully 125 hands, and open on an aver- 
age each season, 150,000 gallons. To supply that house they charter 
eight boats, each with a capacity of over 1,000 bushels. They thus 
are the leading New England honse engaged in the Chesapeake 
oyster trade ; they have another packing house at Drownville, R. 
I., where they pack the choice fancy oysters grown on their own 
beds in the Providence River, while at Nos. 142 and 144 Atlantic 
Avenue, this city, is their local packing house, and whence native 
oysters can be had in the shell, likewise the choicest hard and 
soft chams, little necks, and lobsters. The shipping office is at No. 
35 Howard Street. The firm ever maintains an enviable reputation 
lor dealing in the best qualities of stock, solid measure, .and the 
lowe.<!t market rates; their unflagging energy and enterprise have 
secured to Boston a highly beneficial branch of wholesale trade, 
and the partners are worthy of the substantial success attending 
their ably directed efforts. 

WOODBURY, SHAW & CO., Wlioles.ale and Commission 
Dealers in Lobsters, Oysters and Fish, Nos. 53 and 54 
Connnercial Wharf.— Recognized leaders in the lobster, 
oyster and fish trade of the city of Boston are Wood- 
bury, Shaw & Co., whose office and salesrooms are located at Nos. 
53 and 54 Commercial Wharf. This business was originally estab- 
lished by L. Ricliardson, who was succeeded by G. L. Young. In 
1888 Woodbury, Shaw & Co. became proprietors. The premises 
occupied comprise a very commodious five-story and basement 
building !5x60 feet in dimensions, fully supplied with every appli- 
ance and facility for the accommodation and presentation of the 
extensive stock. Woodbury, Shaw & Co. de.al only in the clioicest 
lobsters, oysters and fish, and guarantee the prompt and perfect 
fulfillment of all orders at the lowest market prices. They make a 
specialty of lobsters, and their trade now extends throughout all 
sections of New England and New York. They are also commis- 
sion merchants in all kinds of country produce, and consignments 
are solicited, and quick returns are guaranteed at the best market 
prices. Their resources are ample and their facilities for securing 
supplies are of a perfect character, while the substantial induce- 
ments they offer the trade are with difficulty duplicated else- 
where. Mr. Woodbury is a native of Vermont, but has resided in 
Chelsea for the last forty years. He is in the prime of life, and of 
excellent reputiition and standing in the social and business cir- 
cles of the eity. Tlie telejjhone call of the house is No. 2170. 



BOSTON CONSOLIDATED PRODUCE COMPANY, General 
Commission; C. H. Kimball, President; Gardner Chapin, 
Treasurer; No. 97 South MarketStreet.— This representative 
and progressive company was duly incorporated under the 
laws of Maine in 1887 with a capital of $400,000. The company has 
ten store houses at Aroostook, Maine, a large warehouse at Fitch- 
bury, besides .an extensive capacity in Commerchal Wharf and six 
branch stores in Boston. The following are the branch stores and 
the names of the firms that are managing them: Chas. Kimball & 
Co., corner Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Sti'eet; Chapin Brotliers, 
No. 97 South Market Street; Clark Bros. & Co., No. 112 Clinton 
Street; McKeever & H.all, Nos. 23, 25 and 27 Richnmnd Street; J. 
P. Brown & Co., No. 135 Atlantic Avenue ; T. P. Blake, Eastern 
R,ailroad. The company deals extensively in potatoes, eggs, beans, 
apples, onions, turnips, poultry, game, fish, sweet potatoes, Flor- 
ida oranges, watermelons, berries, and all kinds of southern 
truck. Special attention is given to all consignments by exper- 
ienced s.alesmen, while consignees ate at once notified on the 
arrival of their consignments of tlie same. Liberal advances are 
made on receipt of produce when required, while prompt sales 
and quick returns are guaranteed. The company always fully in- 
sures and stores all produce in frost proof warehouses. A full and 
complete stock is constantly carried in every line, spechal efforts 
being made to secure superior and clioice produce and to offer 
only such goods as are fresh and wholesome. The officers of the 
company are C. Henry Kimball, president, and Gardner Chapin, 
treasurer, both of whom are highly esteemed in trade cii'Cles for 
their executive ability, energy and integrity. The Boston Consoli- 
dated Produce Company refers by permission as to its commercial 
standing and reliability to the Bunker Hill National Bank, Boston^ 
Fourth National Bank, Boston, Bradstreets' Commercial Agency 
and Russell's Commercial Agency. 

GEORGE H. DICKERMAN & CO., Manufacturers of Paper 
Boxes, Nos. 32, 34 and .36 Green Street.— This concern is one 
of the oldest established, having been founded by Mr. Dick- 
erman in 1855. He early achieved an envi.able reputation 
by being tlie first to introduce to the trade in general the use of 
the paper box and for the superior character of workmanship, and 
uniform excellence of materials, and the growing demands of the 
trade taxed his facilities to the utmost, necessitating repeated 
enlargements. In 1875, Mr. Joseph L. Becknell was admitted into 
copartnership under the existing name and style. The firm occupy 
a very spacious brick six-story building on Green Street, 70x80 feet 
in dimensions. It is equipped throughout with the latest improved 
machinery and appliances run by steam power from an engine on 
the premises. Upwards of 250 hands find employment in the 
manufacture of paper boxes of every description, from the lightest 
.and tiuiest for confectioners and bonbons up to the heaviest for 
stationers, dry goods and furnishing goods. The trade done is al- 
most wholly wholesale on heavy contract orders from leading 
merchants and manufacturers, not only of Boston, but from all 
over New England. Anything in the shape of a paper box 
will be made here strictly to specification and .at lowest rates in. 
quantities to suit. Neatness, elegance of finisli, strength of mater- 
ials and lowest prices cominensur.ate with good work, characterize- 
all of Messrs. Dickerman & Co's. transactions. They are both na- 
tives of Norfolk County, Mass., and are honorable and respected 
businessmen. 

CURTIS & MOTLEY, Stock and Bond Brokers. Office: No. 62 
State Street.— Among the active and enterprising firms of 
stock and bond brokers in Boston is that of Messrs. Curtis 
& Motley. The copartnership was formed three years ago 
by Mr. Allen Curtis and Mr. E. P. Motley. The firm is represented 
on tlie Boston Stock Exch,ange by Mr. Motley. The earliest infor- 
mation is secured for their customers, and all orders are promptly 
filled both here and through the firm's correspondents in New- 
York. They transact a general stock and bond brokerage 
business, buying and selling strictly on commission, for cash or 
on margin, all securities listed on either Exciiange, also miscella- 
neous unlisted stocks, bonds, and mining sliares. Their wide- 
spre;id relations and energetic, prompt, business like manage- 
ment, m.aking their customers' interest paramount, are securing 
to them a very large and growing patronage. 



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He. LITCHFIELD i CO., Manufacturers, Iniporteis and 
Dealers in Fine Fisliing Tackle, No. 302 Wasliington 
^ Street.— Altliougli a comparatively young firm, as such, 
H. C. Litchfield & Co., manufacturers, importers and 
de.ilers in fine fishing tackle, cutlery, skates and dog collars. No. 
302 Washington Street, (tliird door north of old South church) 
have already establislied a business second to few engaged in this 
line in Boston, while their patronage grows apace. The secret of 
this firm's prosperity is not difficult to discover, either. Making 
and handling a very superior class of goods, prompt and thor- 
oughly reliable in their dealings, and being withal fully conver- 
sant with tlie business, the result could scarcely have been other 
than the well merited success they have attained. The premises 




occupied as salesrooms aro compact, neat, conveniently located 
and well lighted on the second floor, while an efficient assistant 
is in attendance also. A large and first-class assortment of every- 
thing in the line of fine imported and American fishing tackle, 
cutlery, etc., is constantly kept on hand, and the trade of the 
firm, is quite extensive ; all orders by mail or otherwise receiving 
immediate attention. Mr. Litchfield, who is the sole member, is 
a gentleman of middle age, and a native of Maine and has been 
m this line of business in Boston for twenty years. He is a man 
of energy, reliability and ample experience in this line having 
formerly been a member of the firm of Appleton & Litchfield 
from 1883 to November, 1887, wlien be established this thriving 
business, and prior to that had been for some years with another 
firm in same line. 

J P. SNOW, Railroad Lands, No. 7 Exchange Place.— At the 
present day no financial interest is of such paramount im- 
^ portance as tliat involved in real estate. Investments in 
real estate under the guidance of the sound judgment of 
an expert are sure to prove renumerative, as Imndreds of persons 
who have become possessed of realty in Florida and other states 
for small sums of money have in a few years in consequence of in- 
creased values realized a competency. In this connection, special 
reference is made in this commercial review of Boston to Mr. J. P. 
Snow, No. 7 Exchange Place, dealer in railroad lands for colonies 
or investor in large or small tracts. Mr. Snow has been engaged in 
the land business for the last quarter of a century, and has obtained 
an excellent reputation with patrons for his honorable methods 
and correct estimates of the values of all descriptions of country 
and city lands. He h.as now on his books 250,000 acres in twenty 
counties in Florida, and 3,000,000 acres in Mexico on the border below 
Brownsville, Texas— which are offered in suitable lots to investors 
and others at nominal prices. He is agent in Boston for the Mexi- 
can Development Company, Diston Land Company of Florida, 
Florida Land Company, of Florida, Florida Land and Improve- 
ment Company, Florida Railway and Navigation Company, etc. 
Mr. Snow also represents the Mallory Line of Steamers to Florida 
or Texas, and furnishes railroad tickets at special rates to any 
part of the south or west. He took the first colony to Nebraska in 
18.%, and also is noted as having been the importer of the first steel 
pen to the United States from Europe. Mr. Snow is a native of 
Williamsburg, Mass., but has resided in Boston for the last fifteen 
years, where he is highly regarded by tlie community for his 
energy, enterprise and integrity. Persons wanting a home among 
the orange groves of Florida can secure a block of ten acres from 
Mr. Snow near a railroad for 8100, payable either ten dollars a 
month or one dollar a week till paid without interest. 



WILLIAM RALPH EMERSON, Architect, No. 85 Water 
Street.— With the vast increase of population, refine- 
ment and wealth in the principal centres of tlie United 
States, has arisen a growing demand tor the blending of 
the artistic and the beautiful with the utilitarian in modern archi- 
tecture. The result has been extremely gratifying to the advo- 
cates of progress in this most vitally important profession. 
Among those who have acquired a national reputation for his great 
skill and artistic conceptions as an arcliitect is Mr. William Ralph 
Emerson, whose surname is becoming in architecture a reminder 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson's name in literature and philosophy. Mr. 
W. R. Emerson was born at Alton, 111., and early in life settled in 
Boston, where he acquired a thorough practical as well as theoret- 
ical knowledge of the science of architecture. In 1863 he became 
copartner witli Mr. Jon.ithan Preston, and in 1871 continued alone 
the practice of his profession. The steady increase of his commis- 
sions and widening field of effort resulted in March, '1888, in his re- 
moving to his present commodious offices in Water Street, where he 
enjoys every lacility for draughting, designing, making computa- 
tions, etc. Mr. Emerson's designs have become deservedly cele- 
brated, his fame rests on a long and successful career, engaged 
largely in supervising the erection of the most advanced classes of 
public and private buildings, among which are churches and villas, 
cottages and mansions at such fashionable centres as Newport, - 
Bar Harbor and such great metropolitan centres as Boston, Phila- 
delphia, Chicago and various large cities. It is needless to 
particularize in regard to the work of such a nationally famous 
architect as Mr. Emerson, but we might mention among his crea- 
tions in this city the beautiful building of the Boston Art Club; 
several of the handsomest city scliool buildings and while a very 
young man assisted in tlie making of the plans of the old Bos- 
ton Theatre, etc., Mr. Emerson attends faithfully to details; his 
plans are well digested and studied and his architectural efforts 
greatly tended to beautify the urban characteristics of the United 
States. Mr. Emerson is a member of the Boston Association of 
Architects and is held in the highest estimation in .social and 
professional circles for his honorable, able metliods. He is fully 
prepared with all the necessary facilities to design and supervise 
the erection of any building not only promptly, but %vith that Intel 
ligent apprehension of design which has ever caused his efforts to 
be so highly appreciated. 

THE CIGARMAKERS' COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, Sales- 
roem and Factory, No. 376 Atl.antic Avenue.— A recently 
organized enterprise, is tlie Cigarmakers' Co-operative As- 
sociation, and from its methods, able guidance and supe- 
riority of product is worthy of the patronage and support of all 
who appreciate pluck, integrity and tlie honest efforts of an asso- 
ciation of skilled workmen to produce the finest grade of hand- 
made cigars now in market. Tlie Cigarmakers' Co-operative Asso- 
ciation was duly organized and Incorporated under the laws of the- 
state, with a capital of $15,000, in the spring of 1888. The stock 
was promptly taken by about twenty-five of the most skillful and 
widely known cigarmakers of New England, and the association: 
has already developed a large and growing trade, under the enter- 
prising and skilled management of Mr.W. H. Batchelor, an old and 
experienced cigarmaker. Tlie association occupies two floors at 
No. 376 Atlantic Avenue, wliere from forty to fifty hands are em- 
ployed in tlie manufacture of the choicest grades of 5c. and 10c> 
goods. The association is sole proprietor of the C. C. A. brand, 
now the leading 10c. cigar on tlie market, and wliich is most care- 
fully made from choicest growths of Connecticut, Havana and Su- 
matra tobaccos. For delicacy of flavor, true fragrance, perfect 
workmansliip and select leaf, this cigar is rapidly distancing all 
competition. Their Co-operative No. 25, is an equally popular and 
reliable 5c. brand and cannot be duplicated elsewhere. The as.so- 
ciatlon is building up its trade on the basis of fine hand-made 
goods only, and is a worthy representative of honorable methods- 
and skilled workmanship. We cannot too strongly recommend ho- 
tels, restaurants and the trade generally to sample these splendid 
cigars, which give such universal satisfaction and will be found to- 
sell quickly, hold customers and give a good profit to the retailer. 
This association is a step in the right direction ; its members seek 
for themselves the benefits of producing the finest goods, and are 
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R A. PATTERSON & CO., Tobacco Manufacturers, Richmond, 
Va., P.H.Duke,Manager,Boston Offlee : No. 4 Central Wharf. 
J —One of the largest and leading tobacco manufactories 
of the United States is that of Messrs. K. A. Patterson & 
Co., of Richmond, Va. As the natural homeof the finest bright leaf 
tobaccos in the world, Virginia is especially favored as a region to 
engage in the manufacture of tobaccos for the markets of the 
country at large. It was in Richmond with its direct water com- 
munications to New England and rail connections with all parts of 
the United States, that in 1856, Messrs. E. A. Patterson & Co., be- 
gan to manufacture, and with marked success. No house has 
since the war, developed such a permanently large and flourishing 
trade north and east as they, and in response to the growing de- 
mand from New England they in 1882 opened a branch house;in this 
city, with Mr. P. H. Duke as manager. The results have fully 
warranted this new departure, as Mr. Duke has developed a trade 
of great and growing magnitude all over New England. The Arm 
are manufacturers of full lines and numerous styles of plug and 
twist chewing and smoking tobaccos. All these are carried in the 
heavy stock in Mr. Duke's salesrooms. No. 4 Central Wharf.and the 
trade is here offered substantial inducements both as to price and 
quality. In fact the Patterson brands are pronounced by experts 
to be the best in this market, and that they are ready sellers is 
shown by the large increase of orders received. Amongthe popular 
brands is the " Lucky Strike," the most famous and popular smok- 
ing tobacco in the market. It has received well merited testimo- 
nials from all over the United States and is a choice combination 
of the selected growths of finest Virginia and other tobaccos. Its 
fragrance and uniform high standard of excellence specially com- 
mends this brand to the trade. The firm of Messrs. R. A. Patterson 
& Co., is composed of Mr. R. A. Patterson, his son, Mr. R. F. Pat- 
terson, and Mr. T. M. Rutherford, all gentlemen of ability and ex- 
perience, of sterling integrity and personal worth and whose fac- 
tory, one of the most complete in the United States, and affords 
steady employment to upwards of 600 hands. Mr. Duke is a native 
of Richmond, Va., and is possessed of a thorough practical knowl- 
edge of the tobacco trade. He is a pusliing and able business man, 
universally popular and respected, and is a worthy representative 
of this great staple branch of trade. 

MANNING & BROTHER, Isinglass, Illuminating and Lubri- 
cating Oils, No. 10,1 Fulton Street. — Thirty odd years of 
unbroken prosperity sums up in brief the history of the 
widely known firm of Manning & Brother, dealers in isin- 
glass and oils. No. 105 Fulton Street. This thriving business was 
established in 1858 by Messrs. Charles B. and William H. Manning, 
and under the same style it has since been conducted with unin- 
terrupted success, although one of the members, (William) was re- 
moved by death some five years ago. The business premises at 
No. 105 Fulton Street, occupy a commodious store and cellar, while 
three in help are employed. The firm handles the entire product 
of C. Norwood & Son's isinglass factory, Ipswich, Mass., (the oldest 
concern of the kind in the United States) and sell the same in New 
York, Mr. Manning & Bro., being general selling agents. They 
al.so deal quite largely in illuminating and lubricating oils, the 
leading specialty, however, being isinglass, and altogether, they 
do a large and active business; the trade in isingla.ss extending 
throughout the entire country, and in oils all over the New Eng- 
land States. Mr. Chas. B. Manning, who is a gentleman in the 
prime of life, active, energetic and devoted to his business, was 
born at Waldboro, Maine, but has been a respected resident of this 
city many years, and is well and favorably known in commercial 
life. 

LENNON & COMPANY, Brass Founders and Finishers, Deal- 
ers in Plumbing Materials, No. 292 Washington Street.— 
Messrs. Lennon & Co. have a deservedly high reputation as 
brass founders and finishers, and as extensive dealers in 
plumbing materi.als, giving particular attention to jobbing mi 
plumbers' brass work in or out of town. The foundation of the 
business was laid in 1860 by Messrs. Curley and Lennon, and in 1876 
Messrs. M. T. F. O'Donnell and John .J. Murphy purchased the 
same and the business has since been continued under the present 
firm name. The business premises comprise two floors, 2-5x100 feet 
each, fitted up in the most approved style with new and improved 



machinery, operated by steam power, and furnishing steady em- 
ployment to ten skilled workmen. The supplies here manufact- 
ured are highly esteemed by the trade everywhere for their super- 
ior quality, thorough durability .and uniform excellence and wher- 
ever introduced and used they practically supplant all rival pro- 
ductions. Inducements are also offered, as regards reliability of 
goods and liberality of terms and prices, which are rarely dupli- 
cated by rival concerns. The copartners are both Boston men, 
born and bred, and experienced and accomplished masters of their, 
trade. Mr. Murphy is the first assistant assessor of Boston and 
has served his fellow citizens as a member of the State Legisla- 
ture, as City Councilman, and of various other positions of honor 
and trust. 

SAMUEL I. COY, Proprietor of Restaurant, Nos. 243, 245 and 
247 Atlantic Avenue.— The multiplication of shipping inter- 
ests, offices, wareliouses, etc., in the neighborhood of Atlan- 
tic Avenue has been the means of creating a great demand 
for all kinds of accommodations and facilities for those whose 
business relations lie in that part of the city. The spacious and 
elegantly appointed restaurant of Mr. Samuel I. Coy may be re- 
ferred to ;n Illustration of what is meant. This establislynent has 
long ranked as one of the best conducted and most popular dining 
places in this section of the city. The restaurant is very eligibly 
and conveniently located at Nos. 243, 245 and 247 Atlantic Avenue, 
and was originally opened some fifteen years ago under the style 
of Brock & Coy, who dissolved their partnership in 1881, when Mr. 
Coy took sole control of the business. That he is an accomplished 
caterer goes without saying, for tlie extensive patronage he en- 
Joys is a standing permanent proof of that fact. The dining-hall 
has a seating capacity for two hundred and fifty guests, and i» 
open for the supply of meals from three o'clock in the morning 
until eight o'clock in the evening. It is a model of cleanliness and 
order, and so systematized is the business that it runs with the 
regularity of clockwork. The culinary department is alike highly 
creditable and will bear the most rigid inspection by the most 
fastidious. It is furnished with all necessary appliances, and con- 
veniences, and here finest delicacies are cooked .and prepared in 
the most tempting style to order. The tables are liber.ally pro- 
vided with the finest edibles, and the service is prompt and cour- 
teous, while the charges are of a very reasonable character. 
Forty-five hands are employed in the various departments. Mr. 
Coy was born in Cambridge forty-six years ago, and personally is- 
very courteous and popular. 

HOUGHTON & COLBY, Grain and Feed Commission, No. 102 
State Street.— Its energetic, enterprising and progressive 
business methods have given the grain and feed com- 
mission house of Messrs. Houghton & Colby, at No. H)2 
State Street, a standing in the great thoroughf.ares of trade, rarely- 
excelled by its oldest and best known contemporaries. This firm 
are spechally prominent as selling agents for western grain 
houses, representing large dealers in Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, 
Columbus, Burlington and established their business here in 1887. 
The copartners, Messrs. Chas. W. Houghton and Benjamin L. 
Colby, are gentlemen of wide acquaintance and large experience, 
thoroughly posted in all the wants and requirements of th& 
trade, and among the most active and efficient commission mer- 
chants and trade representatives of Boston. Messrs. Houghton 
& Colby command all the best opportunities of the market, and 
are enabled to render the most valuable service to such as com- 
mit their interests to their care. Consignments are disposed of 
without delay, the market prices are invariably obtained, and 
remittances are promptly made. The house is responsible in 
every way, and may be relied upon implicitly. Every facility 
and convenience is at hand for the transaction of business, and 
no similar house is more thoroughly prepared to Lake proper 
care of its extensive and growing interests. Its resources are 
ample and abundant, its facilities are complete and perfect, its eon. 
nections are wide-spread and influential, while the substantial in- 
ducements it offers to the trade are r.arely duplicated elsewhere. 
Mr. Houghton is a Western man and received his education in Penn- 
sylvania and Chicago, while Mr. Colby w.asborn in Maine, but re- 
ceived his business training in Boston, and both are prominent, pub- 
lic-spirited and popular business men. 



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BOSTON & LOCKPORT BLOCK CO., Sole Manufacturers of 
Self-Lubricating Metaliue Tackle Bloclis, Etc. ; Ambrose S. 
lieverly, President, No. 162 Commercial Street.— Tbe repre- 
sentative and uoted establishment in the United States 
engaged in the manufacture of tackle blocks is that known as the 
Boston & Lockport Block Company, whose offices and warehouses 
are located on Commercial and Fulton Streets, Boston. The com- 
pany's factories are situated in Boston, Mass., and Lockport, N. V. 
and two hundred skilled operatives are employed, and the trade 
of the house now extends not only througliout all sections of the 
United States, but liltewise to Canada, Me.tico, the West Indies, 
Ceutral and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New 
Zealand. The company has a branch at No. 33 South Street, New- 
York, and its principal agents are C. H. Gurney & Co., No. 247 Lake 
Street, Chicigo, and the Broderick & Bascom Rope Co., St. Louis, 
Mo. This business was originally establislied in 1840 by Bagnall & 
Loud, who were succeeded by tlie Bagnall & Loud Block Co. 
Eventually in 1887, it was duly incorporated under the laws of New 
Jersey, including the Bagnall & Loud Block Co., of Boston, and the 
Penfield Block Co., of Lockport, N. Y , with a paid up capital of 
$300,000. The following gentlemen being the officers, viz : Ambrose 




S. Beverly, president; E. O. Loud, vice president; Herbert Loud, 
treasurer; M. H. Tarbox, secretary. Tlie Boston & Lockport Block 
Co. are the sole manufacturers in the United States of self-lubri- 
cating metaliue and improved self-adjusting five- roll roller bushed 
tackle blocks, and star brand. These blocks are absolutely un- 
rivalled for safety, strengtli, utility, reliability and uniform excel- 
lence by those of any other first-class house in America or Europe, 
while tlie prices quoted for them in all cases are extremely moder- 
ate. The company owns thirty-five patents, which have been duly 
registered not only here, but also abroad. Tliey are also tlie sole 
manufacturers of au improved sanitary lead trap called the Mans- 
field Compressed Lead Trap, whicli is the simplest form of a trap 
in the market, and having a four-iiicli water seal absolutely pre- 
vents the escape of sewer gas into the house, and is highly in- 
dorsed by all first-class architects. They also manufacture the 
best differential hoist in America, being simple in form and far 
less liable to get out of order. In conclusion we would observe 
that the affairs of the Boston & Lockport Company are now placed 
in able and skillful hands, and it worthily maintains tlie leading 
position in this valuable and useful industry, reflecting the great- 
est credit on all concerned. 



JL. KENT & CO., Commission Brokers, Stocks, Bonds, Grain, 
Provisions and Oil, No. 14 State Street, Room 6.— Tliere is 
no more important interest to the financial and mercantile 
community than tliat controlled by tlie several stock ex- 
changes of the country. The city of Boston, with its vast interests 
in railroads, steamship lines, produce and oil, daily transacts an 
amount of business rarely equalled in the history of any country. 
A leading firm of commission brokers in tliis city is that of Messrs. 
J. L. Kent & Co., whose spacious office quarters are located at 
Room I), No. 14 State Street, with entrances also at Nos. 194 Wash- 
ington and 29 Devonshire Streets. Tlie facilities possessed by this 
firm for covering every branch of the business are unsurpassed. 
Stocks, bonds, grain, provisions and oil are handled, either for 
cash or on a margin, on commission, orders are made at once and 
transfers executed, together with all business of this nature, as 
readily .is could be done on Wall Street or Broadway. The firm 
give their personal attention to every item of business that passes 
through their office, and the accuracy with which they estimate 
the values of the various securities has given them a distinction 
th.at h.as merited the confidence of an extensive clientage and a 
marked success as brokers and financiers. As all business en- 
trusted to them is dealt with promptly and in a manner which se- 
cures the greatest possible advantage to customers, their office is a 
favorite resort for investors. Quotations are noted by the stock in- 
dicator, and every convenience is afforded that customers can de- 
sire, including private wires connecting with the various ex- 
changes, and a staff of assistants who contribute to the satisfac- 
tory operations of the house. Mr. Kent, the .active member of the 
firm, brings a wide range of practical experience to bear, coupled 
with superier facilities, in the management of the business, and 
has a high standing in business and financial circles. 

WF. ROBINSON & CO., Wholesale Dealers in Beef, Pork, 
Lard, Ham, Etc., Nos. 77 and 79 South Market and 38 
^ Commerce Streets.— The trade in provisions is un- 
doubtedly one of the most important of the industries 
of Boston, and the New England metropolis is well represented in 
this respect by a number of responsible and reliable houses, de- 
voted to this branch of commerce. Prominent among the number 
thus referred to, is that of Messrs. W. F. Robinson & Co., whose 
offices and salesrooms are situated on South Market and Commerce 
Streets. This business was established in 1854 by Mr. W. F. Robin- 
son. In 1856 Mr. Charles H. Robinson became a member, and in 
1873 Mr. L. G. A. Fanteaux w.as admitted into partnership. The 
premises occupied comprise a superior five-story building which is 
fully equipped with every appliance .and facility for the success- 
ful prosecution of tlie business. Messrs. W. F. Robinson & Co. are 
extensive wholesale dealers in beef, pork, lard, ham, tripe, tallow, 
dried beef, tongues, beans, cheese, pickles, etc. They are receiv- 
ers of Geo. C. Napheys & Son's famous pure leaf lard, which is care- 
fully put up in pails. The firm handle only the finest qualities of 
provisions and offer advantages in prices very difficult lo be 
secured elsewhere. They are now prepared to place on the mar- 
ket their Ferguson hams for whicli they are sole agents for which 
they claim to be the best quality in the country. They are care- 
fully cured in the most improved manner with granulated sugar, 
and cannot fail to satisfy the wants of the public who desire a fine 
and delicately cured ham. Every ham is branded with the name 
of this firm and none are genuine without it. They are also re- 
ceivers of Geo. C. Napheys & Son's, gold brand pure leaf lard, 
which is tlie finest and purest manufactured. Their tr.ade extends 
throughout the principal cities anil towns of Canada, New Eng- 
land and the Eastern States, and is steadily increasing owing to 
the superiority and excellence of their provisions, which have no 
superiors in this or any other market. Messrs. W. F. Robinson & 
Co. make liberal advancements on consignments of first-class 
provisions, and guarantee entire satisfaction to shippers and pack- 
ers. The partners are members of the Chamber of Commerce, 
where they are highly esteemed for their sound business princi- 
ples and integrity. Messrs. W. F. and Chas. H. Robinson were 
born ill Vermont, while Mr. L. G. A. Fanteaux is a native of Bos- 
ton. Their long experience in the provision trade gives them ex- 
cellent advantages, .and their high character is a sufficient assur- 
.ance, that all orders will receive faithful attention and will prove 
satisfactory to patrons in every instance. 



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COMMONWEALTH LOAN & TRUST COMPANY, Eastern Of- 
fice: No. 131 Devonshire Street, Boston; Western Office: 
Commonwealth Buililnig, Kansas City. C. A. Paiks, Presi- 
dent iind Western Manager; W.W.Mason, E.astern Man- 
ager.— At the present day in all the vast array of openings, wliich 
present themselves for the use of surplus funds, there is not ons 
that when prudently availed of through the best channels is so 
sure, remunerative and legitimate, as the loaning of money on the 
mortgage security of productive western improved farms. The 
rapid growth of the fertile north-west in population and wealth 
would have been greatly hindered without the free borrowing of 
feastern capital, which has enabled farmers and stock raisers to 
improve tiieir farms, to purchase blooded stock, new and im- 
proved tools and implements, and to erect larger barns, stronger 
fences and set out orchards. These are all legitimate improve- 
ments, and for every dollar thus expended add two to the value of 
the farm. The loans on western farm mortgages are thus in the 
nature of things, the most secure of any that can be made. In 
connection with these remarks, we desire to make special refer- 
ence in this commercial review of Boston, to the substantial and 
reliable Commonwealth Loan & Trust Company, whose Eastern 
ofRce is located at No. 131 Devonshire Street. The com- 
pany's western office is situated in the Commonwealth Build- 
ing, Kansas City. This company was duly incorporated under 
the laws of Kansas with a cash capital of $100,000, and since 
its organization has obtained a liberal and Influential patronage. 
The following gentlemen are the officers and directors, viz: C. A. 
Parks, president and western manager; W. W. Mason, treasurer 
and eastern manager; E. I. Parks, secretary; E. W. Mason, assis- 
tant secretary: F. M. Hay ward, attorney. Directors, Oscar H. 
Bradley, Geo. M. Woodward, G. T. Baker, A. 0. Stilphen, Ed. B. 
Rogers, L.B. Smith, W.D.Smith, and George E.Thayer. Loans are 
only made to the extent of one third the value of the farm, subject 
to independent and critical appraisement, and the mortgages are 
drawn so as in every case to fully protect the mortgagee. These 
guaranteed first mortgage western farm and city loans are abso- 
lutely safe, and yield always 7 per cent, net to the investor. The 
company also offers to the public Its secured 6 per cent, debenture 
bonds, interest and principal pay.able at the company's Boston of- 
fice. The following is the statement of the condition of the Com- 
monwealth Loan & Trust Company, at the close of business, July 
31, 18S8: Resources, first mortgages on real estate, $267,374.03; lix- 
tures and furniture, $1,941.79; stocks in corporations, $2,000.00; 
cash on hand and in banks, $20,023.51 ; bills receivable, $4,415,00; 
total, $295,754.33. Liabilities, capital stock, $100,000.00; six per 
cent, debenture bonds, $8fi.9O0.00; accrued interest on .same, 
$434.50; bills payable, $23,000.00; funds and deposits held for cus- 
timiers, $46,419.04; Kansas City office, $20,066.53; undivided profits, 
$18,934.26. Further details as to the operations and methods of 
this substantial corporation may be obtained at the company's 
offices in Boston and Kansas City. 

J MORRILL, JR., & CO., Manufactursrs of Soap .and Candles, 
No. 8 Commercial Street.— Tliere is no branch of manutact- 
I uie of more vital importance to a community than that of 
soap and candles ; in this line the oldest house in New 
England is that of Messrs. J. Morrill, Jr., & Co., of Eoxbury and 
Boston, and whose product is pronounced the purest and the best 
by the trade and consumers. It is now ninety-two years since the 
grandfather of Mr. Morrill started the industry of soap manufact- 
uring upon a comparatively small scale. He achieved marked 
success, and was succeeded by his son, father of the present pro- 
prietor. It is now forty-four years ago since Mr. Morrill was 
taken into copartnership by his father, under the name and style 
of Morrill &. Son, and after a lengthy career, he eventually be- 
came sole proprietor and has been doing business for many years 
past under the existing name and style. He brings to bear the 
widest range of practical experience, coupled with perfected facil- 
ities, and has in operation at Roxburya large and fully equipped 
soap and candle factory. He is a resident of Roxbury, and ex- 
ercises close supervision over the processes of manufacture, liav- 
ing the reputation of being the most skillful soap manufacturer 
in the U. S. His product is absolutely pure and of the highest 
standard. Mr. Morrill selects his materials with the utmost care ; 
only the best of tallow and Al chemicals, etc., are permitted in 



these works, while skilled hands attend to the various processes. 
The candles produced have also become internationally cele- 
brated. The firm permanently maintain their enviable reputation 
and have a heavy trade of the most desirable character. Their 
depot and warehouse is at No. 8 Commercial Street, where is 
carried a large and complete stock. The firm sell strictly at 
wholesale to the grocery and export trade. Their brands o£ 
soap and candles are deservedly popular and are largely con- 
sumed in Boston and New England, while they find a mar- 
ket in New York and elsewhere; in the provinces, with a 
heavy export trade' to the West Indies and Central and South 
America. The Morrill soaps are the most effectual detergents of 
dirt known. They are strong and effectual, yet do not harm the 
most delicate fabric, and are the most economical and reliabla 
soaps in existence. Mr. Morrill is a popular and respected manu- 
facturer, and his concern is a valued factor in promoting Boston's 
commercial supremacy. 

RITCHIE & BROWN, Auctioneers, Real Estate and Commer- 
cial Brokers, No. 172 Washington Street.— The firm of 
Ritchie & Brown, No. 172 Washington Street, are well-known 
in Boston in connection with the business of real estate, 
while as auctioneers and commercial brokers they have come to 
the front within a comparatively recent period and shown an en- 
terprise .and ability which mark thein as one of the most success- 
ful houses in the city of the kind. The business was established 
twenty years ago by tlie senior partner of the house, W. K. Ritchie,, 
who is a justice of the peace and has always enjoyed the respect 
of the tr.ading community. A little over a year ago the present 
firm was formed by the admission of Mr. J. L. Brown, wlio had 
much experience in the different branches of the business, and 
was well qualified in every way to advance the interests of the 
house. Messrs. Ritchie & Brown as auctioneers, real estate and 
commercial brokers, do a large business in buying, selling and ex- 
changing all kinds of real estate, improved and unimproved, in 
town and country, disposing of all kinds of property at auction or 
private sale, sales being attended in all parts of the country, 
negotiating business properties, securing partners and capital, 
and having stocks, stores, markets, saloons and boarding houses 
on their list. Legal papers are drawn by Mr. Ritchie of the firm, 
and only the most moderate commissions are ch.arged by the house 
in every case. Both gentlemen are natives of Boston, and are ad- 
mittedly fine representatives of tlie commercial ability of the city. 

FP. ADAMS & CO., Proprietors of Kellogg's Flavoring Ex- 
tracts, Salad Cream, Etc., Manufactory aud Salesroom,. 
, No. 280 Dover Street.— The steady and growing demand 
that has become so manifest of late years for choice flavor- 
ing extracts, sauces and kindred table relishes has resulted, in the 
very nature of things, in placing upon the market some especially 
fine goods of condiments manufactured in this city. And while it 
is gratifying to note tliat very marked improvement lias been 
effected in tires'^ palatable articles, special mention ought here be 
made of the productions of F. P. Adams, proprietor of " Kelloggs" 
flavoring extracts, olives, catsup, salad cream, etc., manufactory 
and salesrooms at No. 280 Dover Street, which are goods of excep- 
tional merit. The articles put up by this widely known firm are 
noted for their purity, quality and flavor, and for general excel- 
lence are not surpassed by anything of the kind produced in the 
country, having taken an enduring hold on popular favor through- 
out the land, and as a consequence they are in wide and increasing 
demand in the trade all over the United States. The business 
premises occupy the whole of a 40x125 foot floor, which Is supplied 
witli ample and complete facilities, while some ten to twelve in 
help are employed, besides several traveling salesmen. The pro- 
ductions included besides "Kellog's" flavoring extracts (which 
are the leading specialty), also olives, maple syrup, catsup, salad 
cream, bay rum, French mustard, lemon and lime juice, and a full 
line of choice condiments; a large and complete assortment being 
carried constantly in stock, and all orders for the trade are 
promptly and reliably filled. They are the largest packers of 
olives in the north-east. Mr. F. P. Adams, who is the sole pro- 
prietor, is a man of middle age, active and energetic, and prior to- 
embarking in this flourishing enterprise in 1884 h.ad been engaged 
in the grocery business tor about fifteen years. 



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HASKINS BROTHERS. Manufacturers and Dealers in Ameri- 
can Isinglass, Irish Moss, Cod Liver Oil, Curriers Oil, Fish 
Koe for Export, No. 175 Atlantic Avenue; Factories, 
Koeliport, Jeffries Point; Cable Address, " Haskins, Bos- 
ton."— Prominent among the representative manufacturers of 
specialties peculiar to their respective establishments in this city 
is the firm of Haskins Brothers, widely and favorably known as 
extensive manufacturers of and dealers in American isingUass, 
Irish moss, cod liver oil, curriers oil, and fish roe for export, whose 
main offices are at No. 176 Atlantic Avenue, in this city, with fac- 
tories at Rockport and Jeffries Point. This important enterprise 
has been in successful operation for a period of twenty years, and 
its influence and connections have become widely extended over 
al! portions of tlie civilized globe. Their factory at Jeffries Point 
is used for preparing salt fish and fish roe for export, and for the 
mannfactnre of cod liver oil and curriers oil; while their Rock- 
port factory is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of their 
celebrated American isinglass. They import fish sounds direct 
from Europe, Asia and South America tor tlie manufactureof their 
isinglass, and produce an article unequalled for durability and 
general excellence by any other house on this continent. Wher- 
ever introduced and tested it is preferred above all other makes, 
and is in permanent and increasing demand throughout the United 
States and tlie Canadas. Employment is provided for some fifty 
skilled hands, and the output is one of great magnitude and im- 
portance. In all branches of their business the Messrs. Haskins 
exercise the utmost care that all products shall be maintained at 
the highest standard of excellence, and as a result their oils are 
widely preferred on account of their salability and solid merits, and 
their trade is constantly increasing in its proportiiras. Orders are 
filled witli promptness and careinall cases, and goods are placed to 
the trade at prices difficult to be duplicated elsewhere. Tlie cop.art- 
ners, Messrs. Moses W. and Leander M. Haskins, are natives of 
Rockport, Mass., and, in addition to tlieir business as here briefly 
sketched, tliey are also active and prominent in this market as 
members of the firm of Haskins Bros. & Co., wholesale fish dealers, 
with lieadquarters at No. 18 T wharf. They are energetic and en- 
terprising in all their business methods, and have won success in 
all their undertakings by honestly deserving it. 

COMER'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, No. 666 Washington 
Street.— We desire to direct special attention in this review 
of the commerce and industries of Boston to that well- 
known and popular institution, famed far and wide under 
the name of Comer's Commercial College, wiiich is situated at No. 
666 Washington Street, coiner of Beach street. This splendid insti- 
tution was founded in IWO. and was the first commercial college 
established in America. Its founder was Mr. George N. Comer, 
who laid the foundations strong and deep for the good of coming 
generations, giv'ng it the benefit of his wisdom and sound manage- 
ment until 1877, when he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Charles E. 
Comer.the present efficient educator and scliolarly principal. That 
Mr. Comer, by long training under his father in all the depart- 
ments of the college, was peculiarly fitted for the position, is 
shown by the i-emarkable success of the institution under his prin- 
cipalship. Since its foundation Comer's Commercial College has 
graduated hundreds of young men who owe their success in lite 
to the instructions here imparted, wliile the leading merchants, 
brokers and business men of this city and throughout tlie country 
manifest their approval of its educational course and system by 
sending their sons and daughters to it. The building occupied has 
been fitted up with an especial view to its permanent occupancy 
as a business college. Here will be found tlie theoretical and 
the practical departments in full swing; the banks, with all the 
Daraphernalia for conducting a legitimate banking business, and 
otlier departments, all in charge of successful educators. It is the 
aim of the theory department to make the student thorouglily fa- 
miliar with tlie principles of arithmetic, writing, spelling, gram- 
mar, correspondence and book-keeping, tlius to establish a solid 
foundation upon which to build his subsequent knowledge, and 
which shall make him a thorough accountant, competent to prop- 
erly dispose of any transaction.no matter how complicated it may 
be, or how different from anything which he has before had to do. 
In the actual business department may be found the college bank, 
mercliaudise emporium, transportation department, and ofiices for 



conducting retail, commission and jobbing business. Through 
these houses, arranged after tlie best models, with necessary ap- 
pointments and equipments unsurpassed by any similar iustitution. 
in the country, business is conducted as in the great world of com- 
merce and trade. Every young man should take a course of study- 
here after leaving the public schools, and before going into busi- 
ness. It will prove of inestimable value to liini. That this cour.se 
of study meets the demands of the times for a business education 
is proved by the ability and success of its graduates in business 
and by tlie demand for them by the business men of this and other 
cities. Axworthy graduate of Comer's is always sure of employ- 
ment. It had in attendance last year over 4S0 students ; and tlie 
enrollment for the forty-eight years past amounts to over 25,000' 
students. The faculty is one of tlie best qualified ever brought 
togetlier in tlie various departments of a business college. Mr. 
Comer and his corps of assistants are gentlemen of the highest 
culture and training, and possess skill and experience in educat- 
ing tlie youth of this country not excelled, and rarely equalled. 

LB. SMITH & CO., Manufacturer of Small Machine Screws 
in Steel, Iron, or Brass, Screw Machine Work to Order, 
, No. 30 Hanover Street.— The increased attention given of 
late years to the [iroduction of an improved grade of ma- 
chine screws and kindred articles has resulted, as it is needless to- 
mention, in marked progress being made in this direction. A Bos- 
ton firm that has been notably successful in this line is that of L. 
B. Sinitli & Co., manufacturers of small machine screws in steel, 
iron and brass, whose oflice and works are located at No. 30 Han- 
over Street, and whose products are in steady and growing demand 
in the trade, owing to the general excellence of the same. The ar- 
ticles turned out in this concern are of a very superior character 
in every respect, alike in design, strength and efficacy, and taken 
altogether, are not surpassed by anything of the kind produced in 
or around this city. This thriving enterprise was started about 
fourteen years ago, and from its inception the venture proved a 
highly gratifying success. The office and salesroom of the firm are 
located on the second floor with commodious and well equipped 
factory on tlie fifth, while some dozen or more expert hands are 
employed on the premises. The productions include machine 
screws of every size, style .and variety, in steel, iron and bra.ss; 
also studs, rolls, taper pins, etc., while odd designs are produced, 
and screw machine work of every description is executed to order 
in the most prompt and excellent manner, and the trade of th& 
firm which extends throughout the city and state is of a very sub- 
stantial character. The copartnership consists of Messrs. L. B. 
Smith and W. E. Tlionuas. natives of New Hampshire .iiid Maine, 
respectively, and are men of energy, experience ana practical 
skill. 

CHAPIN BROTHERS, Wholesale Produce Commission Mer- 
chants, No. 97 South Market Street.— Among the widely- 
known and reliable produce commission merchants of this 
city, there are none having a better representation or con- 
trolling a more substantial business than Messrs. Chapin Brothers, 
wliose oflice and salesrooms are located at No. 97 South Market 
Street. This business was established in 1874 by Messrs. Gardner 
and Ira Chapman, both of whom have had great experience in the 
wholesale produce trade. Mr. Ira Chapin continued in the busi- 
ness until January 1. 1885, and in 1882 Mr. Preston V. Chapin, who 
has been with the concern since its inception, was admitted a 
partner. Their premises are commodious and are arranged vvitlia 
due regard for storage purposes and for business operations. The 
firm have infiuential connections in the best producing sections of 
tlie country, and are constantly receiving in season potatoes, 
eggs, beans, apples, onions, poultry, game, sweet potatoes, 
Florida oranges, watermelons, berries, and all kinds of fruit and 
produce, which are offered to customers at the ruling market 
prices. Liberal advances are made on consignments of first-class 
grades of fruit and produce, and shippers can always find a ready 
sale for their products througli the medium of this concern, and at 
tlie same time prompt and satisfactory settlements. Messrs. G. 
and P. V. Chapin are natives of Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Tliey are 
highly esteemed in trade circles for their promptness and integ- 
rity, and are popular members of the Boston Fruit & Produce Ex- 
cliange and Chamber of Commerce. 



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CHICAGO, MILWAUKKE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY, Gen- 
eral OBices, Milwaukee, Charles A. Brown, New England 
Passenger Agent, H. D. Corbett New England Freight 
Agent, Office, Old State House, No. 210 Washington Street. 
— The great trunli route and fashionable line to the north-west is 
the famous and deservedly popular Cliicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul railway. The country tributary to it is tlie richest and most 
prosperous agricultural region in the world, with a vast and con- 
stantly enlarging population, and in spite of numerous lines of 
railroad which here and there exercise a competitive influence, 
the mighty St. Paul permanently maintains the lead as the great 
artery of inter communication between the fertile north-west in- 
cluding the continental regions across to the Pacific slope, and tlie 
east, south and seaboard. This is tlie favorite route with eastern 
travelers and shippers, and the most direct connections, fastest 
trains and lowest rates give it the lead and permanent supremacy 
over all other routes. A general eastern agency has for many 
years been maintained in Boston, and since 1885 tlie offices have 
been centrally located in the Old State House. The New England 
passenger agent is Mr. Cliarles A. Brown, wlio has been in cliarge 
since 1880, while Mr. H. D. Corbett is the New England freight 
agent. Botli gentlemen bring to bear tlie widest range of prac- 
tical experience, coupled witli influential connections, and abund- 
ant energy and enterprise. Mr. Brown is a native of Maine and 
tas from early youth been closely identified with tlie railroad busi- 
ness. He was formerly with the Wabasli railroad, and by reason 
of his qualifications, urbanity, and close attention to the promotion 
of the welfare and comfort of the traveling public, has become 
one of the most popular pas.senger agents in the United States. 
Mr. Corbett was born in Hingham, Mass., and has been with the 
company for four years. He has been actively engaged in the 
railroad business for tlie past thirteen years, and has acliieved an 
unviable reputation for the efficient manner in which he discharges 
the important duties devolving upon him. The Chicago, Milwaukee 
and St. Paul railway has through the energetic and ably directed 
efforts of Messrs. Brown and Corbett very greatly increased its 
New England business, and the substantial inducements offered 
cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Among the advantages are its 
direct lines to all the principal cities of the north-west and west ; 
the choice of four routeseither goingfrom or returningto Chicago; 
splendid vestibuled trains free of extra charge between Chicago 
and Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis; the finest dining cars 
In the world are run on this line ; its short line to Omaha is the 
favorite route between the great lakes and the Pacific railroads; 
it gives the best and most direct route to Sioux City and Yankton ; 
and is also the great connection between Dakota and Nebraska, 
etc. ; it has a new, easy grade line to Kansas City and St. Joseph ; 
it carries its emigrants on regular express trains in comfortable 
• cars, and stop-over checks are issued to all first-class passengers, 
enabling tliem to stop at any number of way points for fifteen 
days each; the track, rolling stock and equipment generally are 
kept up to the higliest standard ; the conductors and station 
agents are courteous and intelligent, the service is frequent and 
fast, and all who travel to and through the north-west will con- 
sult their best interests and comfort generally by purchasing 
tickets via the old, reliable and popular Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul railway. 

WISE, HARRIS & CO., Importers and Manufacturers of Fine 
Cigars, Dealers in Pipes, Tobaccos and Smokers' Articles, 
Sole Proprietors of the Celebrated Rising Sun Cigar, Nos. 
119 and 121 Hanover Street.— The manufacture of cigars 
and the trade in tobacco forma prominent feature in the commer- 
cial enterprise of Boston. Among those manufacturers of fine cigars 
who are noted for the superiority of their output is the firm of Messrs. 
Wise, Harris & Co., at Nos. 119 and 121 Hanover Street. This firm 
established their business here two years ago, and are fast acquir- 
ing a national reputation as extensive importers and manufactur- 
ers of flue cigars, dealers in pipes, tobaccos and smokers' articles, 
and as sole proprietors of the celebrated Rising Sun cigar, wliich 
they sell at $60 per thousand to the trade. Their facilities for 
rapid and perfect production are of the finest and most complete 
cliaracter, tlieir resources are ample and abundant, and their ex- 
perience as manufacturers lias given them a foundation under- 
standing of all the wants and requirements of the trade. In their 



manufacturing department only thoroughly seasoned and care- 
fully selected tobaccos are used and the best processes are em- 
ployed, the result being that the cigars here produced are widely 
preferred for their absolute purity, fine flavor, and even combus- 
tion. The Rising Sun is the best ten cent cigar in the m.arket to- 
day, wliile Cumberland and the P. Q., both five cent brands made 
by this house, are in great demand among dealers on account of 
their salability and solid merits. A complete stock of tliese special- 
ties is kept in store, and ordersof any magnitude are filled with 
promptitude and satisfaction on terms that are invariably fair 
and satisfactory to the trade. A fine retail trade is also enjoyed 
in cigars, tobaccos and smokers' goods, while the wholesale trade 
extends to all parts of New England and the west, and is rapidly 
increasing under enterprising and reliable management. The 
members of this popular firm are Messrs. Albert Wise and Henry 
B. Harris, both natives of Boston, and gentlemen of wide acquaint- 
ance, eminent popularity and high standing in the social and busi- 
ness circles of this city. 

EB. BARNES & CO., Manufacturers of Fine Gold and Bronze 
Frames, Ornamenters and Gilders, No. VSl Court Street.— 
J Among the leading and best known firms engaged in the 
production of ornamental and gilt work that have come to 
the front within recent years in Boston, may be mentioned the 
popular and prosperous firm of E. B. Barnes & Co., manufacturers 
of gold and bronze frames, etc., No. 127 Court Street. The work 
turned out by this Arm is of a very superior character, alike as to 
beauty of design, execution and finish, and as a consequence, tlieir 
productions are in steady and growing demand all over the New 
England States, with some trade also throughout other sections of 
the country. This thriving enterprise was started about three 
years ago, and the unequivocal success that has attended it from 
the first abundantly attests the excellence of the work produced. 
The premises occupied are ample and well equipped, a commodi- 
ous workshop being maintained also at No. 100 Sudbury Street, 
while from a dozen to fifteen expert hands are employed. Gold and 
bronze frames in every size, design and variety are manufactured; 
also mirror and looking-glass frames, while old frames are re- 
gilded in the most prompt and excellent manner at very reason- 
able rates, everything in the line of gilding and kindred artistic 
work being executed in the very highest style of the art. Mr. 
Barnes, who is the sole member, the "Co." being nominal, is a na- 
tive of England, but has resided in the United States for over 
twenty years. He is a practical and expert gilder himself of many 
years' experience in the exercise of his art, and is thoroughly 
conversant with the business in all its branches. 

SS. WOODCOCK, Architect and Landscape Gardener, No. 40 
State Street.— Tlie important and exacting profession of au 
architect is ably represented in Boston by Mr. S. S. Wood- 
cock, whose office and draughting rooms are eligibly lo- 
cated at No. 40 State Street. Mr. Woodcock conimenced the prae- 
tice of his profession in 1854, and is widely known as an accom- 
plished and expert architect and landscape gardener. He has de- 
signed and built upwards of forty churches, also a number of pub- 
lic buildings in Boston and the neighboring cities. His buildings 
are greatly .admired for their stability, finish and elegance, while 
the elaboration of detail and care bestowed upon every depart- 
ment of his work reflect the utmost credit upon his honorable and 
business-like methods. Mr. Woodcock is now superintending the 
construction of the Price Public Library, Kittery, Maine. His 
patronage extends tliroughout the entire United States and Can- 
ada, and he has also designed several extensive and important 
buildings for the Sandwich Islands. Mr. Woodcock is at .all times 
prepared tofurnish plans, specifications, and estimates for churches, 
chapels, houses, stores, cemetery enclosures, monuments, and the 
improvement of estates, .and likewise to superintend the construc- 
tion of the most elaborate and expensive buildings. He is a na- 
tive of Sidney, Kennebec County, Maine, but has resided in Bos- 
ton the greater part of his life, where he is higlily regarded by the 
community for his skill, ability and integrity. Mr. Woodcock is 
practically conversant with the growth and wants of Boston, and 
is fully competent to carry to successful completion all work per- 
taining to his profession a proof of which is the constant and con- 
stantly increasing demand for his services. 



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WHITAKEK BROTHERS, Ecclesiastical Decorative Pain- 
ters, Etc., No. 630 Washington Street.— A representa- 
tive and prominent lirm in the City of Boston actively 
engaged as ecclesiastical decorative painters, and 
mannfacturers of stained glass, altars, etc., is that of Messrs. 
Whitaker Brothers, whose office, salesroom and workshops are 
located at No. 630 Washington Street. This business was estal)- 
(ished in 1878 by the present copartners, Messrs. Frank and Wil- 
liam Whitaker. Both partners after many years of experience 
have learned, that in order to have perfect harmony in interior 
decorations, the various parts of the work usually let out in a 
number of contracts, should be dealt with as a whole under one 
contract, thus saving the clergy a great deal of annoyance, which 
of necessity must be endured by different contracts. Messrs. 
Whitaker Brothers make a specialty of furnishing under one con- 
tract the frescoing, altars, veslment cases, confessionals, pews, 
windows, etc. The firm also keeps in stock altars and pas. 
chal candlesticks, candle holders, vases, stations of the Cross 




paintings, engravings, chromes, representing religious subjects, 
religious statues of oil composition, gas and kerosene fixtures, 
artificial flowers, baptismal and holy water fonts, crucifixes for 
altars, processional crosses, etc., and all kinds of church goods 
Tlie firm have done a large amount of work for many prominent 
Catholic churches, Convents and Protestant churches in New 
England, in every case giving entire satisfaction. All church goods 
handled by this reli.able firm are unrivalled for elegance of design, 
quality of materials and uniform excellence, and have no superiors 
in America or Europe, while the prices quoted in all cases are ex- 
ceedingly moderate. Both Messrs. Frank .and William Whitaker 
are natives of Boston, wliere they are highly esteemed by the 
community for their artistic skill, ability and just methods. They 
give special attention to tlie fitting up chapels, in Convents, and 
promptly furnish estimates and drawings upon application. 

NATHAN SAWYER & SON, Book and Job Printers, No. 70 
State Street.— In " the art preservative of all arts " it is sate 
to say that the firm of Messrs. N,athan Sawyer & Son, of 
No. 70 State Street, st.ands unexcelled in the city of Boston 
as an enterprising, practical and in-ogressive house. The senior 
partner, Mr. Nathan Sawyer, was born in Boston. Mass., in August, 
1819, and began to leai-n his trade in Portland, Me, in 1832. In 
1835, he came to Boston, and served his apprenticeship with Sam- 
uel N. Dickinson, at No. 52 Washington Street. January 1st, 1866. 
the present firm was organized by Mr. Sawyer and his son, Henry 
N. Sawyer, and they are now recognized as one of the oldest houses 
in this line of Boston. No house has been more successful in book 
and job printing, or produced a better class of work than that of 
Nathan Sawyer & Son. Their premises are admirably arranged 
and equipped for the business with all necessary presses, type 
and modern facilities with which to expedite the work in hand 



with wonderful ease and rapidity of execution. Work in book and 
commercial printing, both plain and ornamental, is performed 
with true artistic conception and with line effect. The p.atronage 
of the house is large, influential and permanent in this city and 
throughout all the New England States, and a competent force of 
expert printers are kept constantly busy. The prices which pre- 
vail are invariably fair and reasonable, and tlie judgment dis- 
played in designing new and appropriate styles, commend this 
firm to the favor and confidence of all. The Messrs. Sawyer are 
both practical printers of ripe experience and established reputa- 
tion. The senior partner is known far and wide as one of the 
oldest printers in the state and one of Boston's solid and substan- 
tial business men. The junior partner was born in this city, and 
is a member of the Masonic Order. 

BF. LAMB & CO., Lumber Merchants. No. 130 State Street.— 
It is an admitted tact that the lumbering interests of the 
^ United States form a very important item in the general 
aggregate of our country's business. The most important 
and essential branch of the lumber trade is that carried on by the 
firm of Messrs. B. F. Lamb & Co., the well-known lumber mer- 
chants. This firm deal in Miciiigan pine and hard woods from 
South Tennessee and Indiana, and have been established in the 
business here since 1882. They ship direct to buyers, carry stock 
at different railroad sheds— and the connections of the firm are of 
so important and influential a cnaracter that all orders and com- 
missions, of whatever magnitude, are promptly and satisfactorily 
filled. They have an immense permanent trade In this city, and 
are continually lengthening and strengthening their stakes, ex- 
panding tlieir commercial relations .and increasing their facilities, 
so that they are becoming widely recognized as leaders in the 
trade. But few houses in this line have h.ad the active experience, 
or possess the comprehensive knowledge with I'egard to the wants 
of contractors, builders and dealers as the case with the manage- 
ment of this house. The policy upon which the business is carried 
on h.as ever been characterized by liber.ality and a careful foster- 
ing of the interests of all patrons, so that transactions once begun 
are such as prove both pleasant, profitable and lasting. The co- 
partners, Messrs. Geo. A. Heywood and B. F. Lamb, are well and 
favor.ably known in this city .as energetic, enterprising and repre- 
sentative business men. Mr. Heywood is a native of Athol, Mass., 
while Mr. Lamb was born in New London, Conn., and both are 
gentlemen of high social and business standing in this commu- 
nity. 

J HENRY SEARS & CO., Shipping Commission Merchants, 
No. 9'2 State Street.— The business of the shipping and 
J commission merchant, when properly conducted, is an 
essential benefit to every commercial centre. In Boston 
there are a number of extensive and influential houses engaged 
in this line, and a leading and representative one is that of J. 
Henry Sears & Co., located at No. 92 State Street. This house 
w.as established twenty-five years ago by Messrs. J. Henry Sears 
and A. Nickerson. The latter gentleman retired in 1887, since 
which time Mr. Sears has continued the business under the origi- 
nal firm name. He owns his own vessels, and transacts an ex- 
tensive business in California, East Indies, Europe and all parts 
of the world. He deals in merchandise of all kinds, shipping 
direct to the export trade, and receiving important consignments 
daily, fresh from the hands of the manufacturer and producer, 
which are promptly disposed of at his hands. He has acquired 
a high reputation and the entire confidence of all who have been 
brought into business contact with his house. Honorable deal- 
ing, push and enterprise are the means tli.at have effected this 
result, and have served to give this house a prestige on both sides 
the water that could not be acquired in any other way. Mr. 
Sears is a native of Cape Cod, and has long been recognized in 
this city as a leader in his line of commercial activity. He gives 
his business the benefit of his large experience and close per- 
sonal application, .and is a thorough .and complete ni.aster of all 
Its details and various phases, besides being an .able and intel- 
ligent business man, fully competent to maintain and increase 
the splendid record of this distinguished establishment, and 
standing high in business, financial and shipping, as well as lu 
social circles. 



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STEPHEN TILTON & CO., Sole Agents for P. H. Mayo & Bios'. 
Manufactured Tobaccos, No. 10 Central Wliarf.-Tliere are 
no manufactured tobaccos in the world which have attained 
the popularity and deserved pre-eminence of those of P.H. 
Mayo & Brothers. These goods are the standards in the New 
England market and as such their sales have attained proportions 
of enormous magnitude. The sole agents and representiitives are 
Messrs. Stephen Tilton & Co., one of the oldest established firms in 
Boston and New England, and the most prominent in the wliole- 
eale tobacco trade. It was founded fully fifty years ago by the 
late Mr. Stephen Tilton, one of Boston's old-time merchants and 
whose decease occurred in 1857. He was succeeded by his sons, 
Messrs. Stephen, Joseph B., and Charles T. Tilton. Their energy 
and enterprise resulted in a greatly increased development of the 
trade. Mr. Stephen Tilton died in 1871 ; Mr. Joseph B. in 1882, and 
Mr Charles T. in 1877, being succeeded by Mr. Charles H.Tilton, 
gon of Mr. Charles T. and by Mr. George H. Tilton, a son of the 
founder. As thus constituted the firm brings to bear every possi- 
ble qualification, including vast practical experience, perfected fa- 
cilities and influential connections. They have established most 
desirable relations with leading jobbers, retailers, etc., and also 
do considerable export trade in the world-famous Mayo tobaccos. 
Their establishment at No. 10 Central 'Wharf, comprises four en- 
tire floors, 25x75 feet in dimensions, and where is carried a very 
heavy stock of the choicest Virginia chewing and smoking tobac- 
cos, including among others, the following brands: Mayo's genu- 
ine U S. Navy, the great favorite for chewing and whose sales 
are as steady and staple as wheat: Clarence smoking, a brand 
that needs no praise here, for all lovers of the weed have personal 
knowledge of it: Holly, a delicious sweet chewing tobacco: Eglan- 
tine a bright brand, and Ivy, a standard dark brand. Other 
brands equally well known and all favorites are: Mayo's cut 
plug Royal, and Boston Ideal. Tobacconists carry Mayo's tobac- 
cos as their leading line and a standard product that competition 
fails to keep up to. The partners are members of the Chamber 
of Commerce, merchants of sterling integrity, who have ever re- 
tained the confidence of leading commercial circles, and are 
worthy representatives of one of the great staple branches of 
trade, and have largely contributed to. Boston's mercantile su- 
premacy. 

GO.SSLER & CO., Bankers and Imiwrters, No. 70 State Street. 
—A representative firm and one of the most important fac- 
tors in affording necessary facilities for the carrying on of 
an enormous foreign trade, are Messrs. Gossler & Co., the 
widely and favorably known firm of bankers and general commis- 
sion exporters and importers. The house here is a branch of the 
great Hamburg house of Messrs. John Berenberg Gossler & Co., 
of Hamburg, Germany. The concern here is one of Boston's oldest 
commercial establishments, dating away back to 1830. Through- 
out a series of copartnership changes the n.ime and style of Gos- 
sler & Co., has remained unchanged, and is synonymous with in- 
tegrity and stability. The present partners, Messrs. Arthur 
Donner and J. B. Schroeder, assumed control in 1882 and are 
too prominent and widely known in Boston's and New England's 
social and commercial circles to require any explanatory comment 
at our hands. Mr. Donner is the Consul here for the Empire of 
Austria-Hungary, and worthily performs the exacting duties of 
his office. Mr. Schroeder holds the equally responsible post of 
Consul for the Empire of Germany, and faithfully performs the 
onerous duties devolving upon him. Messrs. Gossler & Co. have 
direct trade and monetary relations with Europe of enormous 
magnitude. They annually ship and receive a long series of 
cargoes of natural products, and manufactured articles on com- 
mission account and numerous vessels are consigned to them 
from Hamburg, Bremen, Liverpool and other great European sea- 
ports. The firm's State Street oRices are commodious and hand- 
somely furnished in the most perfect manner, and every facility 
attends the transaction of business. Though young men. Messrs. 
Donner & Schroeder are old in practical experience and have 
achieved an enviable reputation for the thorough and honorable 
manner in which they carry through and conclude all transactions. 
Their trade is principally with South America and the West 
Indies and is constantly increasing extending in all directions and 
promises in the near future to be of immense proportions. 



CL. PERKINS, Manufacturer of Choice Chicag o Caramels,- 
and Fine Candies, No. 90 Court Street. Branches: No. 
631 Washington Street, and in New Haven.— For the 
" highest grades of pure confectionery, there is no estab- 
lishment in Boston or New England, where they are manufact- 
ured so carefully or can be so advantageously obtained, as that 
of Mr. C. L. Perkin's, of Nos. 90 Court Street, and 631 VVasliing- 
ton Street. The reputation of Mr. Perkin's Chicago Caramels is 
international in character; they are not duplicated for tlieir 
delicious qualities elsewhere, and their consumption here in Bos- 
ton has attained proportions of enormous magnitude. The 
business was founded by Messrs. Perkins & McDonald about ten 
years ago, and in 1882, Mr. Perkins and McDonald dissolved. His 
trade grew rapidly, and to adequately meet it he opened a sec- 
ond elegant establishment at No. 631 Washington Street. Both, 
are handsomely fitted up and decorated, reflecting the highest 
credit upon Mr. Perkin's sound judgment and good taste. He 
has a large soda fountain in each, and makes a specialty oi 
mineral waters of superior quality. For years Mr. Perkins man- 
ufactured nothing but his "Chicago Caramels," and had all he 
could do to cope with his orders, selling them not only all over 
the United States, but in England as well. His facilities were 
taxed to the utmost, and in enlarging he introduced the manu- 
facture of other choice lines of pure confections. Marked suc- 
cess attended his efforts, and he is to-day the leading confec- 
tioner here catering to fine trade, and makes the largest variety 
of bon tons or dip goods in the city, and has ready call at retail 
for all he can make, employing a large force of skilled hands, 
and'personally superintending the work of manufacturing. He 
caters to Boston's best citizens, and his fine candies have a repu- 
tation of their own. Mr. Perkins also does some jobbing trade in 
fancy confectionery throughout the United States, and dealers- 
will find his fine and fancy confections to excel tlieir most exacting 
standard. He holds the same prominent position in the fine con- 
fectionery trade of New Haven, as he does of Boston, and is an 
enterprising, able and honorable representative of the high class 
confectionery trade. 

CHARLES D. ELLIOTT, General Civil Engineer .and Sur- 
veyor, Room 5, No. 31 Exchange Street.-One of the best 
knowii, experienced civil engineers and surveyors in the 
city is Charles D. Elliott, whose office is room 5, No. 31 
Exchange Street. Mr. Elliott has been established for the long 
period of twenty-five years or more, and during that time 
has executed work of an important kind in the city and 
immediate neighborhood, his services having been in large 
demand, both in a public and private way. For a consider- 
able period he held the important position of city engineer 
of Somerville, and gave general satisfaction. In private under- 
takings he has been no less successful as an engineer and sur- 
veyor having carried out many important enterprises and laid 
out estates in a manner to elicit the highest praise from those 
who commissioned him to do the work. Mr. Elliott, apart from 
his eminent profession.al skill, is a gentleman of first-class scien- 
tific and general attainments, and takes a lively interest in the- 
current questions of the day. He resides in Somerville and so- 
cially is held in the greatest esteem. 

HH\ZELTINE & CO., Butter, Cheese and Eggs, No. 16. 
Blackstone Street.-Although a comparatively young^ 
firm, H. Hazeltine & Co.. receivers of and dealers in but- 
■ ter, cheese and eggs, have already attained a commercial 
standing and built up a business connection vouchsafed to but few 
among the older handlers of these staple food products in this 
vicinity This pushing and popular firm was established some- 
thing over two years ago. They handle nothing but prime goods, 
and all orders are promptly and reliably filled, the concern being 
conducted on strict business principles, while its management is 
characterized by energy, sagacity and integrity. The premises 
occupied are ample, neatly kept and well equipped, while several 
efficient salesmen are in attendance, and the trade, which is of a. 
wholesale nature exclusively, is large and active, extending al 
over the city and surrounding cities and towns. Mr. Hazeltine, 
who is the sole member, the "Co." being nominal, was born in 
Vermont, and has lived in Boston since 1870. 



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Wlf. H-"*''^^^'^''^'''^^^ COMPANY, Confectioners' 
tZT'rl' '"'■'^""''"•-'^t.'overings, Oxyline Chocolate 
&t cet ?^:';""t:^""^'-'''«- Ef-=- Nos. 23 and 26 Fulton 
f«„,- f "eet.-The leading representative of tlie trade in con 

fee .oners' supplies is generally recognized as the Waverly m u 
fac ur.ng Con,pany of Nos. 23 and 25 Fulton Street, irmanuact- 
mers of specialties peculiar to their house, this coinpanyoccuDTes 
a unique position in the industrial world, and it is safe to say tha 

ou,Urv"°Thr'""" ■'"''^'°'-^='"<l - Peersinthis 01 aiy'othe 
country. The company has a reputation and a trade co-extensive 
with he civilized world, as manufacturers of confectroneiV 
specialties, patented by them in 1874 and 1883, and endo sed by the 

wiU, new ;„?. fr^ , """"""^ ""•<'« *''="'i°»» """'S. equipped 
with new and improved machinery, operated by steam povver uid 

hand? "rCrT '■' ^"'=" '" '^ '"^<= '■<"'=<^ 0' Skilled and expert 
nanv ;. V ' P™"""«'>' specialties produced by this com 

lluL, '"''''"''' '"•"'"'"" '^"««'-- '="«'^<"i'' and albari 'e for 

c.inu}, cocoanut tatly, corn sheets and balls. These eoods arp 
Euarajiteed as having no deleterious substances used h?tl,.! 
>na.,ufactui-e. and are for sale by all confectio'i e s' snppl.hou 
The largest caramel and butter scotch specialty hou es m ti"«" 
country and Europe have adopted the carame buttei mide bv 

thete't r '''''•^'""''orized by this con.pany to guirai te« u 
ouiers. This company also manufacture Waverly Slab Dre>!,in^ 

birth ,nH,; deserving enterprise, is a Boston man bv 



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of securing and retaining the best trade. Their =tock of fre.l, p,v.„ 

h::-e':f trbrt""' "' '^'^^'='=" ■"-'"»"• -'" eommai 's : "^ 
ri^i^-nrgra™--^~--rH 

justly appreciated all over the west etc M,- i „ " 

better t„H '%^", •'"'"'"'■"y '" "^'^ ''™'«-" »f trade. There are na 

nections of the most influential wide-spread clai^cter The v' 

branrt!^f' "''°'^«ale grocers and wholesale dealers in the best 
biands of western flour, also produce and provisions Thev earlv 
developed a desirable, growine trade tLv ^l„ '"^5"=*"^ 
four-story building, appfopriitfly n«e"d up,ld"^j:e'ire:rra 
the choicest line of -staple as well as fancy groceries This firm 
are also the sole proprietors of the famous "Brunsw ck " b and ' f 

cated eisellie e ^rl" ■ T'''^ <^™-"e>-e<i, cannot bedupli- 
lishment and hve travelers on the road. In this connection «!„., 



SWAIN, EARLE & CO.. Teasrand ColTees. Importers and Alanu 
fa turers. No. 63 Commercial Street.-The leading rep esen 
tative firm of coffee roasters, and importers of teas ad co 
fees in Boston, is that of Messrs. Swain, Earle & Co oi No 

Earle, and Mr. B. T. Thayer formed the existingropartnersmp' 

el wlfeTe'ThreTr^L''" 

efl.rnf fL; ? *'t'""e practical experience, thorough knowl- 
edge of the best methods of roasting coltees, and the best niant nf 
command to do it; ample resources and faciliti h. the inlVa 
tion of full lines of teas and coffees. Messrs. Swain Et.Tercn" 

^^^ndSn=^-!r--rr'^^^ 

'n.uutain the lead, and should be handled by every firm desirous 



WA^ BATTEY, Commission Merchant and Wholesale 
of^rw" VTn'"- ^^°- ''' ''''' «treet.-The hout 
■ ','■ Y-' ^'''"''^"^■"istly accounted one of the most 
substantial and successful establishments in the vvlo"e 
iTsl ed bTbusreslT'' ';" """^ '" ""' "''■ "^^ P'-oP'-to.- eS- 
at tfe nhn ^ "■' '"""y ^''^''^ ""S"- He occupies two floor* 

stock While tt r''' '■""! "'"' ''•"^'""^ '^ P'ovided for handm g 
stock, while the transportation arrangements are unsurpassed 
Extensive storage accommodations are furnished in State stree: 
Block and an immense stock is constantly carried conipr sinf th^ 
best brands of western flour, roller ineai, corn flour herme^T 
pearl meal and kindred specialties. The proprietor halspecial a ' 
rangenieu s in force with leading millers an<l prod, cerr n aU 
parts Of the country, for the procurement of supplies and i thus 
enabled to secure the finest goods in everygiadeaudo fill the 
heaviest orders without delay. The house represents ^ a geL^'^ 
o he milling industry interested in Boston as a point of dTst.lbu! 
tio for Its products. The high reputation acquired by Mr 

wim,I r°"' '""n """""■""•* ^^'"> '"^ ««•"■ interereverywhfre 
with,,, the scope of its trade, is the best and most satisfactlT 

"TnauJe:; Att/T' Z'" "^ '''''" '"^ estabnLnne f 'h^ 
IS a native of Attleboro, Mass., and is known as one of the most 
capable exponents of the flourtrade in thissection of the city. 



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MT. QUIMBY & CO., Manufactuiiiig Jewelers, Importers 
ami Wholesale Dealers in Watches and Clocks, No. 14 
^ Hanover Street.— One of the oldest ■jstablisheil and 
leading' firms of manufacturing jewelers in Boston is 
that of Messrs. M. T. Quiniby & Co., of No. 14 Hanover Street. 
This extensive busine.ss was^ounded in lS5i) by Mr. M. T. Quiniby, 
a native of Vermont, aud who early in life learned the jewelry 
trade in its every detail. He early developed an active trade, and 
in 1867 admitted Mr. L. V. Quiniby into copartnersliip. The tirin 
thus continued until 1883, wlien Mr. L. V. Quiniby died, deeply 
regretted by the trade and the public. Since tlien Mr. M. T. 
Qnimby lias conliiuied the business and has greatly enlarged it. 
His factory ii at Piovidence, K. I., wliere he manufactures full 
lines of solid and plated cuff and collar buttons, rings, chains, 
bracelets, and general lines of gold and silver jewelry in sets, half 
sets and individual articles. His designs are among tlie most 
popular known to the trade. His jewelry is rich and elegant, .and 
commands a heavy sale all through New England, and the British 
Provinces. An equally important department of Mr. Quimby's 
business is his direct importations of hue Swiss watches, renowned 
for the e.xcellence of tlieir movenients and being reliable time- 
keepers. He also deals in W.altliam and other tine American 
movements, and can supply the trade with watclies of any style in 
nickel, silver or gold cases at prices which cannot be duplicated 
elsewliere. The attention of jewelers Is directed to tlie substan- 
tial inducements offered here to secure a stock of fashionable and 
readily salable jewelry and the best makes of watches. Mr. 
Quiniby Is a respected business man, and has ever retained the 
conliilence of leading commercial circles— a worthy representa- 
tive of a most important branch of tiiide. 

FA. SMITH & CO., Commission and Wholesale Paper Ware- 
house, Nos. 37 and 39 John Street.— The enormous con- 
^ sumption of paper in all departments of trade, as well as 
in the private affairs of life, lias led not only to the foun- 
dation of many huge paper manufactories in all parts of the coun- 
try, but to the establishment of extensive houses m most of the 
principal cities of the Union having for their object the diffusion 
of the products of the mills in wliolesale tiuantities. The concern 
of Messrs. F. A. Smith & Co., at Nos. 37 and 39 John Street, is one 
of this class, and in its line of trade has gained a prominence un. 
surpassed by but few other establishments. The business was 
first organized some twenty years .ago by Mr. P. C. Bacon, Jr., 
who subsequently formed a partnership with Mr. F. A. Smith, un- 
der tlie style of Bacon & Smith. In 1885 Mr. Smith purchased his 
partner's interest, and assumed entire control of tlie business un- 
der the style of F. A. Smith & Co. The premises occupied com- 
prise a building containing tour floors and basement, and 25x60 
feet in dimensions. The business is of a commission and wholesale 
character, and the firm are the selling agents for the Rensselaer 
Mills, Central Mills, Keuka Mills and sundry paper bag manufact- 
urers. The firm make a specialty of handling all kinds of wrap- 
ping and straw paper and paper bags of all strengths and sizes, 
and receiving supplies direct from the mills and offering them at 
manufacturers' prices, they have a very extensive and growing 
trade throughout the whole of the New England States. Mr. 
Smith is a native of Massachusetts, and a member of the Paper 
Tr.ade Association. He is widely known in mercantile circles, and 
Jis much esteemed .as he is well known. 

J A. STUBBS, Wholesale Dealer and Shipper of Extra and 
Common Oysters, Clams, Quahaugs, Etc., No. 1!J4 Atlantic 
I Avenue, He.ad of T Wharf.— Among the leading and old- 
est establislied wholesale oyster merchants and shippers 
of Boston is Mr. J. A. Stubbs, whose business card with its big gilt 
shell, and the men with their tongs fast to a mammoth oyster is 
typical of his sterling enterprise, .and big growing trade. Mr. 
Stubbs w.as born in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass., and early in life be- 
came identified with the branch of trade in which he has achieved 
such success. He learned it thoroughly in every detail, and about 
twenty-five years ago, established in business upon his own ac- 
count. He devoted himself energetically to the various br.anches 
of the business and early became noted for the superiority of tlie 
oysters ho delivered. He has enlarged his fiicllities and they are 
now second to none in the wholesivle oyster trade of New England. 



Mr. Stubbs removed to his present directly convenient premises. 
No. 154 Atlantic Avenue, head of T wharf in 1886, and liere receives 
fresh every day direct from his own beds. He owns very exten- 
sive beds at Warren, R. I , also at Pocasset, Mass , planting a very 
select seed oyster, and securing a qu.ality of extras that are re- 
nowned in this market. Mr. Stubbs is also a regular receiver of 
cargoes of extra and common Virginia oysters, and ships by the 
package and in tlie shell all over New England, while in Boston he 
supplies retail dealers and leading restaurants, oyster liouses, ho- 
tels, etc. He employs upwards of 100 hands in getting the oysters 
from the beds, opening, sorting and shipping. He has his own 
fleet, including some of the fastest sloops in the business, and 
permanently maintains the lead for desirable, strictly fresh and se- 
lect shell fish, including large quantities of hard .and soft clams, 
lobsters, shrimp, etc. His trade is annually enlarging, and he 
ships hundreds of miles out of Boston to numerous customers 
along every line of railroad and by steamer. 

CN. CAKTER, Cloaks, Suits and Furs, No. 496 Washington 
Street.— One of the best known houses in the city engaged 
^ in the manufacture and sale of cloaks, suits and furs is 
that of C. N. Carter at No. 496 Washington Street. Mr. 
Carter has been engaged in tills business for twenty-seven years, 
and was located on Winter Street until last ye.ar when he removed 
to the premises now occupied, which consists of two spacious 
floors, each having .an area of 25x60 feet, affording ample opportu- 
nities for display and convenience of tlie patrons. Throughout, 
the est.ablishment is very .attractive and contains a large and val- 
uable assortment of the latest styles of ladies'cloaks and handsome 
suits and costumes in silk, velvet and other fabrics, and also seal 
sacks, pelisses and fashionable furs of the very highest quality. 
Mr. Carter is not only one of the oldest aud most reliable dealers 
in this line of goods, but is also a leader and is always the first to 
introduce the new styles and fashions, and always has the latest 
designs to place before the public. In the assortment, which is 
perfect and complete in every department, is exhibited everything 
that is new and desirable and in accord with the fashionable ideas 
of the day, and in such variety that no one, not even the most fas- 
tidious, need find any difficulty In making a selection. The pat- 
ronage of the house is large and fashionable, and Mr. Carter and 
his dozen lady assistants give their special attention and are 
prompt in looking after the wants of the customers who are af- 
forded every facility and advantage for inspecting the elegant 
goods that have been brought together expressly for their exami- 
nation. Mr. Carter is a native Bostonian and is an autliority upon 
the styles and fashions of ladies cloaks, costumes and furs, and 
can offer the Very best goods and unsurpassed inducements at all 
times. 

WILLIAM H. EDMANDS, Optician, No. 47 West Street.— 
Keeping p.ace with the march of progress in science 
and art. very notable improvement has been effected 
of recent years in the devices intended to increase the 
power of vision and restore impaired sight. What with invention, 
discovery and the marked development of skill, a comparative de- 
gree of perfection li.as been reached in optical goods. A gentle- 
man who has won an Al reputation for judgment and skill in this 
line is William H. Edmands, the well-known optician of No. 47 
West Street, who has attained a position in the front rank in his 
profession. Mr. Edmands who is a man of middle age and a na- 
tive of this city, is a thorouglily practical and expert optician of 
many years' experience in the exercise of his profession, and a 
thorough master of the .art in all its branches. He was formerly 
with the firm of Thaxter & Brother, and in May, 1888, succeeded O. 
H. Roth, who had conducted the business here since 1874. The 
store is compact, ample and very tastefully appointed— an elegant 
displ.ay being made— while competent assistants are employed. A 
large and first-class assortment Is constantly kept on hand, com- 
prising telescopes, microscopes, lenses, opera-glasses, field and 
marine-glasses, philosophical and scientific instruments, specta- 
cles, eye-glasses and optical goods in great variety, while repair- 
ing and .adjusting in all their branches are promptly and reliably 
executed at reasonable rates, all work being fully warranted, and. 
altogether, Mr. Edmands has a very fine and constantly increasing 
patronage. 



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THE BOHTON TVPE-WlilTEK COMPANY, Nos. ISO and ISC 
Washington Street.— It can be stated williout fe.ai' of success- 
ful contradiction that the type-writer has done more to revo- 
lutionize tlje details of daily business life than any other one 
improvement, and as a result almost every house of any importance 
has one or more of the instruments in use. Being an accepted 
fact, it is only necessary to select always what is deemed to be the 
best, and ranking at the head for botli efficiency and economy is 
the Boston Type-Writer, manufactured by the Boston Type-Writer 
Company. This company was incorporated in 1881!. with Benjamin 
Dore, president; .lames H. Currier, treasurer and general man- 
ager; and are manufacturers of type-writers, copying presses, and 
dealers in general supplies. There has long been needed a good, 
cheap type-writer that would do all the work that could be done 
on the high-priced m.achines. There are thousands of persons who 
have wanted a type-writer but could not afford one on account of 
the price, or could not operate it should it be purchased, and not 
having a business that would require the continuous employment 
ot an operator have had to do without one. The Boston type-writer 
exactly tills the bill. It will do all kinds of work that can be done 
on any writer, and more than can be accomplished on some. It 
is simple in construction, easy of action and does pood work, while 
it is easier to learn to operate than other writers and any one can 
write with it without practice. Tlie alignment is perfect and 
straight ds print; it cannot get out of alignment by use, mistiikes 
can be easily corrected, and several copies can be written at one 
time. It has a stationary index plate, which does not tire the eyes 
as do those on other writers, which are constantly moving up and 
down. Tlie letters and characters are large and plain, and these 
used most frequently are nearest the centre, and many words fre- 
quently used are already formed as shown in di;igramof index. 




Familiarity with the posiiiMii nl thi> letters on the index is all that 
is necessary to produce rapid work. Metal and interchangeable 
type are important features of the Boston writer, as the operator 
can use a variety ot styles, if desired, at a trifling expense. It 
takes but a few minutes' time to change type, as tliey are fastened 
upon the type wheel with a set screw which can be easily turned. 
Should a type get injured it can be readily removed and another 
replaced at a trifling cost without trouble or inconvenience. The 
type can be cleaned with a stiff brush without being removed from 
the macliine, as they are always accessible. It writes on a flat 
surface, the paper lying in the same position as though using the 
pen, and on tliis account is superior to otlier writers in wliich the 
paper is wound around a roll as envelopes, cards, etc., can be 
written on as well as any kind of paper. The operator can at any 
time inspect all that has been written, correct any mistake, or in- 
sert omissions without removing paper from tlie machine. It is 
made with such accuracy that any part can be duplicated if worn 
or broken. It is Jight, strong and portable; is less complicated 
than any practical writer in the market, while the price places it 
within the reach of all who desire a type-writer. It is the best 
writer for the. money, and in quality of work equals the highest- 
priced writers. The latest improvement in copying presses is the 
Boston wall copying press, manufactured by this company. It is 
a combination press, table, water receptacle and brush holder, 
made to fasten upon the wall, thus leaving as much room on the 
floor for a chair or table as there would be if there was no press in 
the room. It can be adjusted to suit .any thickness of bonk, and 
all the parts are interchangeable and can readily be duplicated. 
They are in use in many of the largest mercantile houses, hotels, 
ofBces, markets, etc., throughout th« coinitry, and is universally 



acknowledged to be the most convenient and best working letter 
press extant, and far sui)erior to the old style. The Boston Type- 
Write Company is in a position to guarantee tlie prompt and per- 
fect fullillment of all orders for tliese important improvements, 
and offer inducements to purchasers tliat •::;mnot be duplicated 
elsewhere. Their trade is large, influential and steadily increas- 
ing throughout the United States, the Caiiadas and England, and 
agencies are established in .all the principal cities. The officers of 
the company are gentlemen of large experience and thorough 
knowledge of the business; are enterprising, progressive and prac- 
tical in all their methods of manufacture. 

W POUTER & CO., Agents of Quincy Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Coini)aiiy, of Quincy. Traders and Mechanics 
^ Insurance Company, of Lowell, and General Insur- 
ance Brokers, Oftice, No. 27 St.ate .Street.— One of the 
best channels through which to effect fire insurance in this city 
is that afforded by Messrs. \V. Porter & Co., the agents of Quincy 
Mutu.al Fire Insurance Company, of Quincy, Mass., and Traders 
and Mechanics Insurance Company, of I.uwell, Mass., and promi- 
nent as Insurance Brokers, at No. 27 State Street. This agency 
was founded forty years ago by Mr. W. Porter, who died October 
30, 188:-', and was succeeded by Clias. II. Porter, his son, and W. P. 
Butler, who have continued the business under the origin;vl firm 
name. Without in any way reflecting on others' offices, it is but 
justice to say tliat these gentlemen have secured the leading posi- 
tion in their line, and have developed a connection and patron.age 
of a most influential and permanent cliaracter. This firm are 
placing risks with the above-named companies, and with all re- 
sponsible fire insurance corporations in the world, at remarkably 
low rates; their policies are clearly worded, explicit and devoid 
of technicalities, and all losses are promptly paid on ad- 
justment. They control the insurance of important lines 
of business, residential and manufacturing property, stocks 
ot merchandise, leases, rents, yachts and household effects, 
etc., and are steadily extending their patronage ;iiid influ- 
ence. The partners are recognized authorities in their 
line, and have an unrivalled knowledge ol the principal 
risks offering, rendering them safe as .agents for conserva- 
tive c<mipanies like tliose they represent. Mr. Porter is a 
prominent citizen ot Quincy, and a director of the Quincy 
■^ Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Butler resides in 
■ Cambridge, and has been connected with this house tor 
fhirly-two years. Both gentlemen are members of the 
Board of Underwriters and tlie Insurance Brokers' Board, 
and are noted for their excellent business methods and liberal 
policy, ever retaining the confidence of leading commercial and 
financial circles. 

FP. TRICKEY. Boarding, Baiting, and Sale Stable, No. 255 
Atlantic Avenue.— The well conducted boarding, baiting 
J and sale stable .at No. 255 Atlantic Avenue, is an import- 
ant and essential convenience to this community. It oc- 
cupies a fine location for the business, being close to pleasure boats 
landings, and al.so close to other steamer landings. It lias been es- 
t.ablished the past fifteen years and under the able management ot 
Mr. F. P.Trickey. the proprietor, it has become widely known and is 
liberally p.atronized. The lu-eniises have an area of 80x100 feet, con- 
taining stalls and accommodations for lOOhead of horses, every con- 
venience being provided for their care, and only those who are fa- 
miliar with the duties of stablemen are employed about the place. 
The .accommodation provided for boarding horses, of which there 
are a large number in tlie stable, are of asuperiorcharacter, and for 
baiting horses, every convenience is at hand. Thewholeest.ablish- 
ment is kept neat and clean and every provision is made for proper 
ventilation. Mr. Trickey also conducts a large business, juying and 
selling horses, and .always has a nnmber ot fine animals .suilable 
for driving or heavy draughting purposes. He is a correct, upriglit, 
honor.able gentleman to deal with and can .always be relied npon 
in al! transactions. A native of Dover. N. H., where he w.as born 
forty years ago, Mr. Tricljey has since 1861 been a resident of 
Boston where he has made many friends and is well-known as a 
popular horse dealer and the proprietor of an establishment 
wliich is admirably suited for the purposes for whicli it is main- 
tained. 



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SEARS' PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, No. 136 Hanover Street. 
—An old established and excellent Hanover Street pliar- 
ni.icy is Sears' People's Drug Store, whicli is eligibly located 
in tlie Blaclistone Banlc Building, corner of Union Street, 
and wliicli tor forty odd years has maintained an enduring liold on 
popular favor and confidence. It is one of the oldest and leadinfc 
establishments of the l<ind in tliis part of tlie city ; and has a large 
and flourishing trade. Physicians' prescriptions and family recipes 
are here compounded from absolutely pure and best quality ingre- 
dients, and in the most careful and accurate manner by thoroughly 
competent pharmacists, while bottom prices lil^ewise prevail at all 
times. Tlie store, which is open from 7 a. m. to 12 midnight, is com- 
modious, liandsomely appointed and complete in every respect, an 
elegant soda fountain, beautiful plate glass show cases and at- 
tractive fixtures imparting to tlie place a very inviting appearance. 
A large and first-class stock is always carried, embracing besides 
fresh and pure drugs, medicines and chemicals of all kinds, all the 
standard proprietary remedies, alcohol, spirits, acids, extracts, es- 
sences, flavors and druggists' sundries in great variety; also pure 
medicinal wines, liquors, and mineral waters, and a fine assort- 
ment of toilet articles, perfumery, fancy soaps, sponges, chamois, 
choice cigars, etc., while four experienced assistants are in attend- 
ance, the proprietor exercising close personal supervision over 
the prescription department. Mr. G. T. Sears, who is a man in the 
full prime of life and a native of this state, is a gentleman of 
agreeable manners and the highest personal integrity, as well as a 
pharmacist of judgment and skill, with long and varied experi- 
ence in the laboratory, and is a prominent member of the Drug- 
gists' Alliance, the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association and 
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. 

STEDMAN & KELLOGG, Bankers and Brokers, No. 8 Congress 
Street.— A widely known and representative house in Bos. 
ton, dealing largely in investment securities, stocks, bonds, 
etc., is that of Messrs. Stedman & Kellogg, whose oflices are 
located at No. 8 Congress Street. This business was established in 
1872 by Charles F. Emery, who was succeeded in 1883 by the present 
firm. The copartners, Messrs. C. L. T. Stedman and Geo. G. Kel- 
log, have long been identified with the leading financial circles of 
Boston, and are recognized authorities on the most reliable classes 
of investment securities and guaranteed dividend paying bonds. 
The firm buy and sell all kinds of investment securities, and make 
a specialty of guaranteed realestate mortgages. Messrs. Stedman 
& Kellogg are agents in Boston for the sale of bonds and mortgages 
of the Central Kansas Loan & Trust Co., of Russell, Kansas, also of 
the Charles T. Emery Real Estate Loan Co., of Kansas City, and 
the Union Investment Co., of Kansas City. They devote close at- 
tention to this branch of finance, and have an influential circle of 
permanent customers, numbering many wealthy capitalists and 
investors. Both Messrs. Stedman and Kellogg are natives of Boston. 
Mr. Stedman was for several years with the National Eagle Bank, 
and the American Loan & Trust Company of Boston. Mr, Kellogg 
w.as also connected with the American Loan &Trust Co., of Boston, 
and the Montpelier National Bank of Montpelier, Vermont. The 
firm of Stedman & Kellogg have ever conducted their business on 
the enduring principles of integrity, and are also always cogniz.tnt 
of the true position of ahouse, that holds the interests of its patrons 
in its hands. 

FOGG BROTHERS & CO., Bankers and Dealers in Commercial 
Paper, No. 48 Congress Street.— Tlie banking interests of 
Boston are of the greatest importance, not only to the city, 
but also to all sections of New England. Capital naturally 
seeks this city for investment, and here are found some of the 
most wealthy and enterprising financiers in the United States. 
Prominent among the number thus referred to, is the reliable and 
widely known firm of Messrs. Fogg Brothers & Co., bankers and 
dealers in commercial paper, No. 48 Congress Street. This busi- 
ness was established in 1865 by Fogg Brothers & Bates, who were 
eventually succeeded by Fogg Brothers & Co. In 1871 Mr. T. S. 
Fogg died after a successful and honorable career. The business 
Is now the property of Messrs. John S. Fogg, E. S. Bristol, A. S. 
Austin and A. B. Vining, all of whom are able financiers and rec- 
ognized authorities with regard to the values of stocks, bonds and 
first-class investment securities. They transact a general bank- 



ing business in all its branches, and make a specialty of dealing 
in high class commercial paper. Possessing a large capital, this 
responsible firm is well able to handle all business in a prompt 
and satisfactory manner, while their standing in financial circles 
gives the utmost confidence to their numerous patrons. Messrs. 
J. S. Fogg and A. B. Vining are natives of Weymouth, Mass., Mr. 
Bristol of Winthrop, and Mr. Austin of Salem. They have ever 
conducted their business on the enduring principles of integrity, 
and are always cognizant of the true position of a house that 
holds the interests of others in its_hands. The firm's New York 
correspondent Is Mr. H. L. Horton. 

ED. SAWYER, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, No. 60 Congress 
Street— The profession of a civil engineer is one of great 
responsibility, requiring the highest order of ability, skill 
and experience to secure success. One of the best-known 
and most popular and civil and mechanical engineers in Boston is 
Mr. Edward Sawyer, of No. 60 Congress Street. This gentleman 
established himself in the practice of his profession here in 1865, 
and has devoted his time and talents during all these years to 
manufacturing plants, mill work and sanitary engineering, secur- 
ing a reputation and a patronage that early placed him in the 
front rank of enterprise, popularity and success. The fidelity and 
accuracy of all his plans and engineering designs have been 
widely recognized and appreciated, and he has been entrusted 
with many important public and private commissions that have 
materially added to his prestige as an engineer and master work- 
man. Among the works executed by him may be named two 
mills for the Chicopee Manufacturing Company, at Chicopee Falls, 
Mass.; several mills for the Arlington Company at Lawrence, 
Mass. ; and other large cotton and worsted mills throughout New 
England. Mr. Sawyer was born in New Hampshire, and has re- 
sided in Boston for the past thirty years ; Is treasurer of the 
Sawyer Spindle Company of this city ; a member of the Boston 
Society of Civil Engineers, and is widely and prominently known 
to the trade and public as an eminent leader in his profession and 
a gentleman of large business capacity and thorough reliability, 
with whom it is always a pleasure to meet socially, professionally 
or in a business way. 

BALLANCE & SORRELL, Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes, 
No. 42 Lincoln Street.— Frequently have we spoken of the 
steady progress Boston has made in almost every branch of 
industry and department of trade, but probably in none 
has that progress been more visible than in the sale and manufac- 
ture of boots and shoes. For half a century this city has been 
recognized as the great boot and shoe mart of the Union. The 
quality of goods handled here is constantly growing in popular 
favor; consequently every portion of the country draws its supplies 
from Boston. This is in part, no doubt, due to tlie enterprise and 
energy of our wholesale houses. We have in Boston many firms 
engaged in the trade, that for wealth, standing and reliability, no 
city in the land can duplicate the -same. Worthy of mention 
among such is the concern of Ballance & Sorrell, with commodious 
quarters at No. 42 Lincoln Street. The firm are manufacturers of 
men's and women's machine and hand sewed boots and shoes at 
wholesale only. The business was organized in 1885 by Messrs. W. 
P. Ballance, I. \V. Ballance and M. W. Sorrell. Mr. Ballance is a 
native of North Carolina and has always been identified with the 
boot and shoe trade, in which he was formerly a salesman. Mr. 
Sorrell, in 1887, disposed of his interest in the business to Mr. J. M. 
Dunwoody, who is a native of Georgia, where he was formerly in 
the shoe trade, and subsequently was located for a time in New 
York City. The original style of the firm, that of B.allance & Sor- 
rell, has been retained, and the firm has gained a high reputation 
and a trade which extends to every section of the country. The 
premises occupied comprise the first floor and basement of the 
building which is 25x75 feet in dimensions, and are admirably 
fitted up and arranged. A very heavy stock is carried, and the 
firm control the products of factories in Lynn and Brockton, thus 
enabling them to fill all orders promptly and at the lowest prices 
ruling in the trade. Shipments are made to all sections of the 
country and the standing of the firm in the trade is of the highest, 
a position which they have gained by straightforward methods 
and first-class goods. 



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FARMER'S LOAN & TRUST CO., T. O. MofTett, President; 
A. C. Goss, General EasternlAgent ; Western office, Anthony, 
Kansas; Boston Offices, No. &t Devonshire and 20 Water 
Streets.— The State of Kansas is the heart of tlie American 
■Continent. In a few years the face of the land has been trans- 
formed with orchards and osage hedge rows. Everywhere in this 
splendid and fertile state are evidences of culture, thrift and en- 
terprise; everywhere the promise of prosperity and greatness. 
City lots which tlve years ago sold in Antliony, Harper County, for 
seventy-five dollars, are worth to-day $3,500. In connection with 
these remarks, we desire to make special mention in this commer- 
cial review of Boston to the successful and progressive Farmer's 
Loan & Trust Co. of Kansas, whose office in this city is located at 
No. 84 Devonshire and No. 20 Water Streets. The company's West- 
ern office is situ,ated in Anthony. Kansas, and its Philadelphia 
branch at No. S07 Walnut Street. This company was duly incorpor- 
ated under the laws of Kansas in 1885 with a capital of $600,000, of 
which $500,000 has already been paid in ; $100,000 of the above capital 
has not yet been issued, but is reserved as treasury stock. All who 
■desire absolutely safe and profitable investments should investigate 
and compare the merits and records of this reliable company with 
the best corporations in the .same business. The company has been 
remarkably successful, and maint.ained its reputation for careful, 
conservative management, because its western members are com- 
posed of men whose reputation for Integrity and business ability 
is well known throughout Kansas. Most of them have been in this 
business from ten to twenty years, and are thoroughly familiar 
with real estate values. Being well known and trusted, farmers 
would naturally select them to place a mortgage on their homes. 
Among the eastern members are some of the strongest, most suc- 
■cessful, and best known business men of Boston and other partsof 
New England, New York, and Philadelphia, who keep a careful 
supervision overall the affairs of the comp.any, and send from their 
number each year one or more committees to make a thorough 
examinjitlon of all the affairs of the company. This commends the 
company to careful Investors. Able counsel with a thorough 
knowledge of Kansas law and the loan business have been retained 
by the company, to attend to all legal matters. The company's 
examiners are each paid a salary; their compensation does not 
•depend on the number of loans made, as It does where commissions 
are paid. The company issues seven per cent, guaranteed mort- 
gages, and six per cent, debenture bonds, based upon real estate 
mortgages, on the following plan: A series of $100,000 six percent, 
■coupon bonds are issued in sums of $500 and $1,000, payable in six 
years after date, coupons being payable quarterly. Principal and 
interest payable at office of Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Com- 
pany. Bonds of $200 and $300 to meet the requirements of small 
investors are also issued. Each series of these debentures is se- 
cured by $100,000 of this company's first mortgages on property 
valued at not less than two and one-half times the amount of the 
loan, by a pledge and assignment of the mortgages by this com- 
pany to the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of Boston, 
Trustee. Each bond bears the certificate of the Boston Sate De- 
posit and Trust Company, which holds the securities, setting forth 
plainly the terms of the trust. No bond can be issued un- 
til the mortgages required to secure It are duly assigned to 
the trustee, and no bond will be certified by the trustee until such 
security has been delivered to it by the company. This Is rapidly 
becoming the most popular form of Investment In ■western securi- 
ties. The following gentlemen, who .ai'e highly regarded in finan- 
cial and commercial circles for their prudence, executive ability 
and just methods are the officers and directors: T. O. Moffett, 
president ; Col. Wm. H. Long, vice-president ; J. K. Wilson, 2d vice- 
president; J. M. Bent, secretary; W. R. Stivers, assistant secre- 
tary; S. A. Darrough, treasurer; E. H. Goss, 'assistant treasurer. 
Directors: T. O. MolTett, president of Ashland Bank, Kan. ; J. M. 
Bent, capitalist, Anthony, Kan. ; S. A. Darrough, president of First 
National Bank, Anthony, K.an.; John F. Reese, real estate, 
Wichita. Kan.; Frank Evans, Wichita, Kan. (Examiner for Co.) ; 
J. K. Wilson, Anthony, Kan. (Ass't examiner for Co.) ; Jas. G. 
Woods. Bluff City, Kan.; O. F.Casteen. treasurer Harper Co., Kan.; 
J. M. Pollock, capitalist, Wichita, Kan. ; W. R. Tucker, retired 
mercliant, Wichita, Kan. ; J. M. Russell, director of First National 
Bank. Anthony, Kan. ; Max Tandler, merchant, Anthony, Kan. ; J. 
J. Bancroft, M.D., treasurer Insane Asylum, Concord, N. H., also 



director N. H. .Savings Bank.; J. A. Wright, of Peter Wright & 
Sons,Pliiladelphia, P.a. ; Albert Bromer, clothing manuf., Schwenks- 
ville. Pa ; J. L. H. Cobb, capitalist, and trustee Bates College, 
Lewiston, Me. : Col. Wm. H. Long, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 
Boston ; Herbert Nash, of Nash & Co., tea Importers ; Moses 
S. Page, of .Moses S. Page & Co., Boston ; Levi S. Gould, of F. M. 
Holmes Furniture Co., Boston ; A. C. Goss, Gen. Eastern Agent of 
the company, Boston ; Chas. II. Bond, of Waitt & Bond, Boston. 
Mr. A. 0. Coss, the General Eastern Agent of the company has 
control of the Boston offices, and will be glad to give any imforma- 
tlon relative to the real estate mortgages and securities of this suc- 
cessful corporation. 

C BLAKE FURNITURE CO., Manufacturers of Desks, Hall 
Stands. Etc., Office and Warerooms, No. 100 North .Street.— 
Prominent among the numerous houses of enterprise and 
refinement in the city of Boston, extensively engaged in 
the manufacture of desks and fancy cabinet ware. Is that known 
as the C. Blake Furniture Company, whose offices and warerooms 
are located at No. 100 North .Street. This business was established 
in 18,50 by Mr. C. Blake, who conducted It till April, 188", when he 
retired, and was succeeded by his son Mr. .J. M. Blake, and Mr. C. 
F. W. Schllmper, the business being carried in under the style and 
title of the C. Blake Furniture Company. The factory of the 
company which is fully supplied witli latest improved wood work- 
ing machinery, tools and appliances, and furnishes constant em- 
ployment to 100 skilled cabinet makers .and operatives, is situated 
on Dorchester Avenue, Soutli Boston. The C. Blake Furnltiu-e 
Company manufacture to order or ortherwise desks, hall stands, 
book cases and fancy cabinet furniture of every description. Many 
of the rarest woods are utilized, and the furniture Is carved In the 
most workmanlike and artistic manner from unique and original 
designs and patterns. Their goods are unriv.alled for elegance, 
finish, quality of materials and workmanship and have no superiors 
in this country, while the prices quoted in all cases are as low as 
those of any other contemporary first-class house in the trade. The 
company's resources and facilities are such, that the largest orders 
are promptly filled, and Its trade now extends throughout all sec- 
tions of the United States. Messrs. Schlimper & Blake are natives 
of Boston. They are highly esteemed for their Integrity and sound 
business principles, the exercise of which in all tr.ansactions has 
won for them an excellent reputation with the trade, and been in- 
strumental in the achievement of their business success. 

JT. DYER & CO., Gents' Furnishers, No. 12 Bowdoin Square.— 
The firm of J. T. Dyer & Company has been for the past 
eigliteen years prominently identified with the trade in tlie 
finest grades of gentlemen's furnishing goods. They estab- 
lished their business originally in 1870, at No. 19 Green Street, and 
in 1880 they opened their i)resent main headquarters at No. 12 
Bowdoin Square, under the Revere House, which has since con- 
tinued as a leading representative of all that is styli.sh, original 
and refined In gentlemen's furnishings. Both stores are now 
operated on a large scale, maintaining the early reputation of the 
firm, and controlling the very best class of fashionable trade. The 
stock displayed Is the most complete and comprehensive In Its 
character, embracing a magnificent line of the newest shades and 
patterns in fall and winter hosiery ; a most beautiful assortment 
of stylish ties and cravats possessing the most tasteful and correct 
combinations of colors; white and ornamental colored linen hand- 
kerchiefs; silk, merino and lamb's wool underwear; shirts and 
collars, gloves and suspenders, canes and sticks, the best 
makes of imported and domestic umbrellas, and all the choic- 
est Importations In fine furnishings and outfittings. These 
goods have been selected with an experienced eye and a keen ap- 
preciation of the popular want, and are calculated to meet the 
tastes and the demands of the greatest possible number of patrons. 
They are placed to customers at prices which are eminently fair 
and equitable, and competition is challenged as regards both 
quality and novelty of goods and liberality of terms and prices. 
Mr. J. T. Dyer, the senior partner of this firm, is a native of Cape 
Cod, Mass., while Mr. R. H. Gardner, the junior member, was born 
in Maine. Both are well and favorably known In the social and 
business circles of this city, and have won their large measure ot 
success by honestly deserving it. 



ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



BOSTON ICE COMPANY, No. 76 State Street, H. O. Bright, 
President; James H. Eeed, Treasurer.— Ice, wliicli was 
formerly but little used for any pui'pose, lias become within 
recent years a staple commodity and an indispensable ne- 
cessity. Tliere are few families so poor in the great cities of the 
United States, that they do not patronize the ice man, during the 
heated term at least, and in a great city like Boston, the quantity 
used for various purposes is simply innnense. Among the enter- 
prising firms and corporations engaged in the ice trade of this 
city, the Boston Ice Company, which was duly incorporated in 
1866, is in all respects the leading company. The operations of 
this popular company are extensive, requiring the services of 400 
operatives and eighty teams. They own immense ice houses, and 
draw their supplies of ice from various large lakes in the state, as 
in case one location fails to furnish it, a larger quantity can be cut 
and housed where it is thick, clear and free from snow. The com- 
pany controls 500 acres of surface, and its ice is absolutely unri- 
valled for quality, purity and uniform excellence. During the ice 
cutting season, the company often employs 1200 hands. The head- 
quarters of the company is at No. 76 State Street, Telephone 565, 
while its sub-ofBces and depots are in East Cambridge at Prison 
Point Bridge, Telephone 6453, and in Charlestown on Front Street, 
Telephone 6154. The cliief executive ofBces of the company arc Mr. 
H. O. Bright, president, and Mr. James H. Reed, treasurer. Tlie 
coinpany makes a specialty of supplying the retail trade with tlie 
best ice at lowest rates, also families, hotels, stores, etc. The 
charges for supplies of ice are reasonable, as shown by the sub- 
joined tariff of rates: May to October 1st, twelve poimds daily, 
six doU.ars; eighteen pounds 'daily, nine dollars; twenty-four 
pounds daily, twelve dollars; thirty-six pounds daJy, seventeen 
dollars. By weight, fifty pounds for fifteen cents; twenty-five 
pounds for ten cents. Monthly prices (for other than season 
time): twelve pounds daily, per month, one dollar and fifty cents; 
eighteen pounds daily, per month, two dollars and twenty-tlve 
cents; twenty-four pounds daily, pf r month, three dollars ; thirty- 
six pounds daily, per month, four dollars and twenty-five cents. 
Customers are supplied before aiul after the season at proportion- 
ate rates, and the company can always be relied upon for prompt 
and effective service. The trade of the Boston Ice Company ex- 
tends throughout all sections of the city and its vicinity, and it 
also transacts an e.vtensive wholesale trade. Mr. Bright, the presi- 
dent, is a native of Belmont, Mass., while Mr. Reed, the treasurer, 
was born in Boston. Mr. Reed is also president of the National 
Wax Thread Sewing Company. 

ROBERT F. CLARK, Stock Broker, No. 40 State Street.— The 
importance of Boston as a great financial centre is gener- 
ally recognized. She is in f-ict the most prominent point 
for the disposal of desirable investment securities, and the 
purchase and sale of active stocks and bonds, and the Stock Ex- 
change of this city ranks second only to that of New York in point 
of volume of trade and number of members. Representative 
among the number is Mr. Robert F. Clark, the widely and favora- 
bly known banker and broker, of No. 40 State Street. Mr. Clark 
was born in Boston, and has long been actively identified with the 
Interests of investors, having been established in business since 
18C5, and has developed an excellent reputation for executive abil- 
ity, and accurate knowledge of every phase and feature of the 
stock and money markets. He has long been an influential mem- 
ber of the Boston Stock Exchange, ever according a conscientious 
support to all mea.sures and regulations for the benefit of this use- 
ful institution, and to secure increased facilities to the public. He 
has been repeatedly called on to serve in executive capacities, and 
is now the vice president of the Exchange. The responsibilities 
and duties of the Vice Presidency are onerous, and no one could 
more ably and faithfully perform same than Mr. Clark who has 
filled the office several times and is universally popular and re- 
spected and spoken of in the highest terms on 'Change and in the 
street. He conducts a general commission business in the pur- 
chase and sale, for cash or on margin, of all stocks, bonds and 
miscellaneous securities as listed by this Board, or listed on the 
New York Exchange. His New York correspondents are Messrs. 
Hallgarten & Co., of No. ;;.s Broad Street. He occupies two central 
and commodious offices fitted up in the most thorough manner, 
with tickers, one for Boston stock quotations and news, the other 



for New York quotations. Every convenience is afforded custom- 
ers, who include leading capitalists and active operators. His fa- 
cilities for obtaining the latest reliable in formation as to the course 
of the market, are of the most perfect kind ; and no one is better 
qualified to fill orders for country capitalists or city operators and 
investors, eitlier for investment or speculative purposes. He 
is a recognized authority on the market, intimate with the 
records of railroads and other corporations, while his methods are 
truly conservative, his .standing and reputation are of the highest 
character, and he is a faithful exponent of the enduring princi- 
ples of equity which are the substantial foundations of the busi- 
ness and influeuce of the Boston Stock Excliange. 

ALBION MILLING COMPANY, Merchant Millers and Ship- 
pers of Mill Feed, Corn, Oats, and Choice Michigan Pro- 
duce, Beans, Butter, Eggs, Etc., No. 130 State Street.— There 
is not, as it goes without saying, among the great staple 
food products entering into general consumption, any one that 
comes within measurable distance of flour in point of interest and 
importance, and it is in the nature of things, therefore, that the 
production and sale of this and kindred articles should constitute 
one of the principal branches in commercial activity in every cen- 
tre of trade and commerce. Among the flourishing concerns in 
this line that have come into prominence of recent years in Bos- 
ton can be named that of the Albion Milling Company, merchant 
flour millers and shippers of mill feed, grain, and choice Micliigan 
produce, with nulls and warehouse at Albion, Mich., and Eastern 
headquarters at No. 130 State Street, this city. This widely known 
and responsible concern was established some fifteen years ago, 
at Albion, Mich., the Boston office being opened in May, 188S, and 
from its inception the enterprise has proved a higlily gratifying 
venture. Producing and handling a very superior line of goods, 
liberal and honorable in their dealings, and being withal men of 
energy, sagacity and excellent business ability, Messrs. W. B. 
Knickerbocker and Joshua S. Ingalls, the proprietors, have been 
enabled to secure the hold on public favor and to build up the ex- 
tensive connections they enjoy. Besides a fine and very superior 
grade of family flour ol their own production, they also handle 
corn, oats, and everything In the line of mill-feed; also prime 
creamery butter, eggs, beans, and choice IMichigan produce of all 
kinds, and transact a wholesale business exclusively. The office 
and salesroom in this city, which are under the efficient manage- 
ment of Mr. Ingalls (Mr. Knickerbocker being the resident p.art- 
ner at Albion), are ample and commodious, all orders for home or 
export trade (cable address "Bates") being promptly and relia- 
ably filled, and the business of the Boston branch, which is chiefly 
with the New England States, is of a most substantial character, 
and grows apace. 

BF. GREEN & CO., Tailors, No. 1.59 Court Street.— For a 
period extending over twenty-eight years the well-known 
J firm of B. F. Green & Co., merchant tailors. No. 159 Court 
Street, have maintained an enduring hold on popular 
favor. They are, in fact, among the oldest and foremost exponents 
of the tailoring art in this quarter of the city, and fully sustain to- 
day their well earned reputation for fine work, promptness and 
reliability. The business was formerly located on Wasliington 
Street, whence It was moved to the present commodious quarters 
some three years ago, and has here been conducted since with un- 
interrupted success. The premises here occupied are spacious, 
neatly appointed and well ordered, a large and AI assortment 
of imported and domestic suitings being constantly carried, in- 
cluding the Latest novelties In cassimeres, cloths, checks, cheviots, 
serges, meltons, stripes, plaids and fashionable woolens and wors- 
ted in quite a variety, while as many as twenty first-class hands 
are employed in the busy season. Fine tailoringis the specialty.the 
garments leaving this reliable establishment being noted for their 
general excellence, alike as to design, put, fit, finish and f;ibric. 
and the patronage which extends throughout the city and 
environs Is of a very substantial and influenthal character. Mr. 
Green, who is the sole member, is a gentleman in the prime of 
life and a native of England, but has resided in Boston some thirty 
odd years. He is a practical and expert cutter and general work- 
man himself, of long and varied experience in the exercise of his 
art, and is conversant with the business in all its branches. 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



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CHARLES C. BEALE, Author, Publisher and Teacher of Sinipli- 
lied Phouograpliy, Nos. 180 and 186 WasliinRton Street.— The 
Beale School of shortliand, typewriting and business corres- 
pondence was formed Ave years ago, by Messrs. Charles C. 
Beale and L. E. Lovejoy, but soon merged into the control of Prof. 
Beale, under whose management it has ever since remained. From 
its inception it met witli almost phenomenal success, thus pioving 
the need of a reliable and well conducted institution of the Icind. It 
has accomplislied a great worlv in training young men and women 
for the duties of tlie stenographic amanuensis and reporters, and 
to-day its graduates filling responsible and lucrative positions, 
probably outnumber those of all tlie similar schools in Boston, 
combined. Nearly two hundred and fltty of its working gradu- 
ates attest the thorough and practical manner of instruction. 
Much of this success is owing to the fact that Prof. Beale, after 
long study and research in stenographic literature, as well as after 
preparing himself by long actual practice In every branch of the 
profession, succeeded involvniga system of shoithand, preserv- 
ing the salient featuiesof tlie previous systems but so harmoniz- 







ing and simplifying tlie det.ails as to make it comparatively sim- 
ple of acquisition. Tlie school has been constantly growing until 
now it has prob.ibly the largest and best appointed quarters of 
any shorthand school in the country. It is centrally located at 
Nos. 180 and 186 Washington Street, and visitors, who are always 
welcome, are impressed by the quiet elegance of its appointments. 
On account of its superior facilities, simplicity of system taught, 
thoroughness of instruction, and moderate price, this school offers 
unrivalled inducements to the intending student of these most 
useful studies. The unprecedented success which his improve- 
ments in stenography met, induced Professor Beale to publish a 
complete series of works on shorthand and kindred subjects, 
necessitating a large and well fitted printing ofBce, which forms 
a by no means small department of his business. He is the author 
and publisher of the complete series of works on Simplified Pho- 
nography, the name appiopri>ately given to his system of shorthand, 
.as well as being editor and publisher of Stenography, now in its 
third ye;ir, the most influential journal of its class in the world. 
Professor Beale became deeply interested in Volapuk, the interna- 
tional commercial language, so useful to business men throughout 



the world, and was one of the pioneers in its introduction in this 
country. Ue is publisher of a series of text-books on the subject 
and editor and publisher of "Volapuk," the first magazine pub. 
lished in this country devoted to this wonderful language. He 
has also published various other educational works. We append 
herewith a complete list of his publications, with prices: Phono- 
graphic— All about stenography, 10 cents; advantages of simpli- 
fied Phonography, 5 cents ; Manual of Simiilified Phonogr.Tphy, 
$1.00; Te.\tBook of Simplilied Phonography, $3.00; Reading Book 
of Simplified Phonography, 25 cents; Pocket Reading Book of 
Simplified Phonography, 25 cents ; Book of Wordsigns and Con- 
tractions, 50 cents; Book of Business Letters, 50 cents: Stenography, 
Vol. I, bound, $1.50; Stenography, Vol. II, bound, $1.50; Sten- 
ography, monthly, per year, $1.00; Annual catalogues, 1885, 1886, 
1887 1888, 1889, tree ; Complete catalogue of publication, free ; Short- 
hand in a Nutshell, 10 cents. Nutshell Series.- Typewriting in a 
Nutsliell, Spelling in a Nutshell, Shorthand in a Nutshell. Punctua- 
tion in a Nutshell, Volapuk in a Nutshell. Memory Culture in a 
Nutshell, 10 cents each. Volapuk.— All About Volapuk, 5 cents ; 
Volapuk in a Nutshell, 10 cents; Stilwell's Volapuk Grammar. 35 
cents; Volapuk Dictionary, $2.00; "Voliipuk," a monthly maga- 
zine, per year, $1.00. Miscellaneous.— Sylvester's Cipher Code. 50- 
cents. Mr. Beale. is well known by the business community, and 
highly esteemed for his ability, professional skill and integrity, 
justly meriting the signal success achieved by him in his school 
and publishing business, as well as for the efforts he has made to 
place art of stenography on a higher plane, and to smooth the 
diftieulties and obstacles formerly .abounding in the study of this 
profession, while hundreds of his graduates thank him for the aid 
he has given them towards securing a liveliliood. 

NK. FAIRBANK & CO., Lard Refiners, Chicago; S. W. 
Andrews, Wholesale Agent for New England ; Office, No. 
5 CentraljWharf.- The largest and oldest established lard 
manufactures in tlie world are Messrs. N. K. Fairbank & 
Co. It was in 1863 that Mr. N. K. Fairbank beg.an the manuf:icture 
pf the purest, highest grade of refined lai'd known. He had mas- 
tered every problem attending the production of a perfect qual- 
ity of a lard for general use, that would remain sweet and good in 
any climate and stand transportation to any part of the world. 
From small beginnings tlie business lias grown to proportions of 
colossal magnitude, upwards of 1,000 tierces a day now being man- 
factured, rend.ring it the largest industry of the kindon the globe. 
In addition the firm manufacture a pure, edible refined subsiance 
for culinary purposes from cotton seed oil, known as Cottolene and 
which has every desirable quality of pure leaf lard, coupled with a 
flavor and uniformity of strength and quality that is rendering it a 
great popular favorite. The evidence of themosieminent chemist* 
and experts goes to show that cotton seed oil is a healthful 
and nutritious article, and when duly refined by the elabor- 
ate methods in the Fairbank refinery, and the product 
known as Cottolene is prepared, it is absolutely tlie most 
healthful, whole some and desirable article in existence 
for culinary use. Tlie firm also manufacture immense 
/quantities of lard oil, neat foot's oil, tallow, gold dust, the 
famous wasliing powder, and Santa Claus soap, tlie best and most 
economical laundry and bath soap in the world. The firm has ex- 
tended its trade relations all over the world .and has itsown depots 
and branches throughout the United States. Here in Boston is 
the headquarters for Massachusetts, the agency having been 
established here in 1877 by Mr. S. W. Andrews, who came direct 
from Chicago in that year to take cliarge of this branch house. 
He is the recognized aufhority on lard and its kindred products, 
is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Andrews' 
office is at No. 5 Central Wharf, where all wholesale orders are 
promptly filled, shipments being made direct from Chicago to 
wholesale grocers, jobbers, oil men, etc. We advise the people of 
New England to secure the interesting pamphlet, entitled " Facts 
About Lard," demonstrating and proving th;it Fairbank's lard 
is made strictly from the choicest of the hog product, with suffi- 
cient refined cotton seed oil and beef suet added to place it far 
ahead of all other lards, etc., as regards the essentials of positive 
purity, freedom from anything deleterious or unwholesome, sweet- 
ness, richness and economy as the best article for cooking in the- 
known world. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



JF. HUTCHINSON & CO., Wholesale & Commission Dealers 
in Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultiy, Game, Beans, Etc., Nos. 
103, 105, and 107 South Market Street.— The character and 
magnitude of the wholesale produce connnlsslou trade of 
Boston is lorcibly illustrated by a review of the leading houses 
engaged therein, represent! ve among the number being that of 
Messrs. J. F. Hutchinson & Co., of Nos. 103, 105 and 107 South 
Market Street. It was in 1875 that Mr. Hutchinson founded the 
present business, and which under wise and honorable manage- 
ment has been developed to proportions of such magnitude. In 
1878 to secure increased acconuiiodation, the firm removed to their 
present eligible premises, Nos. 103 to 107 South Market Street, 40x50 
feet in dimensions, carefully fitted up to meet their requirements, 
and which is crowded to its utmost capacity with high grade but- 
ter, cheese, eggs, poultry and country iiroduce generally. The 
firm ranks among leading receivers of dairy butter, and best 
makers of New York State and western creamery, and are also 
extensive buyers of same in open market, thus rendering their 
stock specially attractive both to the city and New England trade; 
as also to exporters. Their annual sales of butter alone have at- 
tained extended proportions. In eggs they are also large re- 
ceivers and buyers of the freshest lots, direct from shippers and 
packers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England, 
while they handle the best brands of New York State and western 
■cheese. Liberal advances are made on consignments, and prompt 
account sales are rendered the firm's high standard being practi- 
■cally demonstrated by reference to its nifluential trade connections. 
Mr. .1. F. Hutchinson isa native of Brookline, and has been a per- 
manent resident of Boston since boyhood. He is still a young man, 
though old in experience, and has ever retained the confidence of 
leading commercial circles. He is an active and respected mem- 
ber of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and ol the Fruit and 
Produce Exchanges, alfording his customers the facilities enjoyed 
by meeting all the leading dealers on the floors of these Institu- 
tions, and ever according a hearty support to all measures best 
calculated to advance the welfare of Boston Produce trade. Mr. 
J. F. Hutchinson has just been elected a member of Legislature. 

NEW ENGLAND & SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP COMPANY, 
Boston Agents, Richardson & Barnard, North Side Lewis 
Wharf.— One of the most reliable and comfortable line of 
steamers plying from Boston to the Gulf States and Cuba, is 
the famous New England & Savannah Steamship Company, in con- 
nection with the Ocean Steamship Company's vessels. Average 
passage by these steamers from Boston is seventy-two hours, and 
from New Y'ork flfty-flve hours. These steamers being provided 
with electric head-lights, during the night can be navigated in the 
Savannah River, avoiding all delay. Close connections are made 
at Savannah with the various routes diverging from that city. A 
steamer leaves north side of Lewis Whiirf, Boston, every Thursday 
at 3.00 P.M. First-class tickets include berth in state-room .and 
meals on all steamers, except on St. Johns River and Tampa Bay. 
Intermediate ticket entitles holder to all the privileges of regular 
first-class ticket, except location of state-room and first table. In- 
termediate accommodations being limited berths should be en- 
gaged when ticket is purchased. Children under four years, free ; 
between four and twelve, half rate, unless requiring accommoda- 
tions wanted for adults. Rates named are limited and include 
transportation of KO pounds of baggage. Richard & Barnard, 
agents. North side Lewis Wharf, Boston ; A. DeW. Sampson, agent, 
C. R. E., No. 201 Washington Street, Boston ; O. G. Pearson, agent, 
Sav., Fla. & W. R'y., No. 211 Washington Street, Boston. The 
steamers of the New England & Savannah Steamship Company are 
fitted with every possible convenience and luxury. The table is 
equal to that of any hotel, and what is far more importance than 
this, everything that is possible is done to insure the safety of the 
ships and passengers. The officers are among our best known navi- 
gators, selected for their particular fitness for their positions. The 
passages of the company's .steamers are speedy, and the line is very 
popular toth in Boston and the South. This is now the favorite 
route from New England to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Texas and Cuba. Messrs. Richardson <Si Barnard were 
previously the company's agents in Savannah, and assumed the 
management of the Boston branch in 1886, and since then have 
materially increased the patronage of the line. 



DAVID LEVY, Manufacturer of Clothing, No. 735 Washington 
Street.— One of the most popular and successful concerns in 
the city engaged in the wholesale manufacture of custom 
and ready-made clothing, and one deserving of special 
mention in these pages, is that of Mr. David Levy, whose estab- 
lishment is very centrally located at No. 735 Washington Street. 
This enterprise was started in 1878 by Messrs. Levy Brothers, and 
on the dissolution of their partnership in 1885 Mr. David Levy took 
control of the business, and by bringing to bear upon it energy, 
ability and integrity, has developed a trade of great magnitude 
and a most desirable and wide-spread connection. It is needless 
to add that Mr. Levy has an intimate, practical knowledge of the 
clothing trade, and vast practical experience in every detail. 
Thus constituted the house is the most competent to afford the 
fullest satisf.action to the numerous wholesale clothiers who now 
form the patrons of the establishment. For the purposes of the 
business the third floor of the building is occupied, and this has an 
area of 30x100 feet. It is admirably equipped with all necessary 
appliances and conveniences for the business and permanent em- 
ployment is provided for some sixty skilled and expert hands. 
The house has fiom its inception enjoyed a steady run of business, 
and undertakes the making of every necessary description of male 
attire, a specialty being made of fine custom order work. Style, 
make and fit are guaranteed, and the charges are warranted to be 
as low as those of any other house in the trade. Mr. Levy is a 
native of Germany, and a gentleman of fine business ability and 
honorable methods. 

SCANLON & DILLON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fruit, 
Vegetables, Poultry, Eggs, Etc., No. 78 Blackstone Street.— 
Few among the many prosperous fruit and produce firms 
that have come to the front of recent years in this vicinity 
have been more fortunate than that of Scanlon & Dillon, wholesale 
and retail dealers in domestic fruit, vegetables, poultry, eggs, etc., 
whose commodious and well-kept stand is located at No. 78 Black- 
stone Street. This popular and responsible firm was established 
in 1884 and from its inception the business has been conducted 
with uniform and gratifying success. Handling a reliable and 
excellent line of goods, upright and straightforward in all their 
dealings, and withal prompt and courteous in attending to the 
wants of customers, Messrs. Scanlon and Dillon have been enabled 
to gain the hold on public favor and to build up the substantial 
patronage they deservedly enjoy. They occupy a spacious and 
nicely ordered basement store, with ample and excellent storage 
facilities, and carry constantly on hand a large and carefully as- 
sorted stock, including domestic fruits, nuts, berries and vege- 
tables of every variety in their season ; also poultry and game, 
fresh eggs, and country produce generally, while several capa- 
ble assistants are employed likewise ; all orders both wholesale 
and retail, receiving immediate and siitisfactory attention. The 
individual members of the firm are E. Scanlon and James J. Dil- 
lon, natives respectively of Ireland and Nova Scotia, but resi- 
dents each of the United States many years. 

CHAS. H. MORE & CO., Importers and Manufacturers of Gran- 
ites, Main Office, No. 14 State Street.— This business was es- 
tablished m.any years ago, the copartners being Messrs. 
Chas. H. More and A. L. Rhinehart, both of whom are prac- 
tical and experienced granite manufacturers, fully conversant 
with every detail of this growing and important industry and the 
requirements of patrons. The firm have branch offices and works 
in Aberdeen, Scotland ; Barre, Vermont and Quincy, Mass. At 
Barre they employ sixty experienced and skilled stone cutters in 
their own sheds besides giving employment to fully as many more 
by subletting contracts to other manufacturers. The same is true 
in Quincy, Mass., where they have lately purchased a plant and 
are thus in position to take advantage of the market in regard to 
time and class of work that others in the same line cannot who 
have no sheds, and their trade covers the whole of the United States 
and Canada. Messrs. Chas. H. More & Company import and deal 
largely at wholesale in Scotch, Swedish, German and American 
granites, which are offered to customers at the lowest possible 
prices. They keep constantly in stock granite suitable for monu- 
mental and cemetery work and promptly furnish estimates. 
Messrs. More & Rhinehart were born in Roxbury, N. Y. 



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THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK of Boston, No. 28 State 
Street, Franklin Haven, President; Alonzo P. Weelts, 
Cusliier. — In no respect has tlie City of Boston developed a 
greater degree of influence and progress tlian in that of her 
banking facilities, which are in every way of a thoroughly repre- 
sentative and conservative character. In this connection we de- 
sire to make special reference is this commercial review to the old 
established and reliable Merchants National Bank, whose banking 
olTices are centrally located at No. 28 State Street. It was origin- 
ally organized as the Merchants Bank in 1S31, and eventually be- 
came a National Bank in 1864. The paid up capital of the bank is 
$3,000,000, which is further augmented by a surplus of $1,000,000. 
Its management has always been signally prudent and sagacious, 
and the financial crises that have smitten the country from time 
to time since Its organization, have never affected its strength or 
overshadowed its standing and reliability. Its board of directors 
is composed of gentlemen, who are prominent and influential in 
commercial and social circles, whose names are synonymous with 
strict probity and stability, and there is no fiscal institution in 
Boston, which challenges and enjoys a greater conlidence with its 
numerous customers. Tlie Merchants National Bank transacts a 
general banking business, receiving the accounts of banks, bank- 
ers, corporations, manufacturers, merchants and others upon 
favorable terms, and affords every possible facility and conven- 
ience for monetary transactions. The bank has always paid semi- 
annual dividends, and has issued no bill for less than five dollars 
since 1835. The present building is the property of the bank, and 
was purchased by it in 1835 from the United States Bank. Tlie 
area of the site is 9,000 square feet. The president, Mr. Franklin 
Haven, Jr., is confessedly one of our most able financiers, and an 
energetic exponent of the soundest principles governing banking 
and finance. He is treasurer of the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital, a director of the Bay State Trust Company, and also of the 
New England Trust Company, and other institutions. From 1868 
to 1879 Mr. Haven was assistant treasurer of the United States at 
Bo.ston. Mr. Alonzo P. Weeks, the cashier, is highly esteemed as a 
prompt and faithful bank officer, with every qualification for his 
responsible position. 

HS. McKAY. Architect, No. 28 Beacon Street.— A rising 
and popular young Boston architect is H. S. McKay, 
^ who by skill and reliability is rapidly pushing his way to 
the front ranks In his profession. Mr. McKay was born 
in Canada, but has resided in this city a number of years. He is a 
thoroughly practical and expert drauglitsman and general archi- 
tect, of ample experience, and is a complete master of the art in all 
its branches. Mr. McKay was formerly a member of the firm of 
Silloway & McKay, established in 1883, and about three years ago 
assumed sole control. Plans tor all classes of buildings are exe- 
cuted in the most reliable and excellent manner, and designs and 
estimates are cheerfully furnished on any proposed work, while 
construction is judiciously superintended always in person. 
Among the more notabis pieces of work executed on Mr. McKay's 
plans may be mentioned the Prospect Hill church at SomerviUe 
the Medford Opera House, Worthen Street, Baptist church, Lowell' 
and the Methodist church at Marion, Ohio. 

EH. WAKEFIELD, Real Estate, Mortgages, Etc., No. 194 
Washington Street.— Tlie house of Mr. E. H. Wakefield, 
J dealer in real estate and mortgages, at No. 194 Washing- 
ton Street, is one of the oldest and best-known in its line 
-11 the city. The proprietor has been engaged m the business here 
(or the past thirty years, and has developed a solid business con- 
nection in all branches of realty. He negotiates mortgage loans 
and business paper of all kinds, buys, sells, rents and leases 
property, invests money, collects rents, and takes the entire man- 
agement of estates. He has the fullest confidence and esteem of 
leading capitalists, investors and property owners, and owing to 
the wide range and superior character of his connections he is 
prepared to promptly dispose of realty at fair values, while offer- 
ing to conservative investors the best possible bargains that are 
guaranteed to produce a steady income and a prospective increase 
in values. His varied experience, keen appreciation of value, and 
large acquaintance with business men, combine to render his 
services peculiarly valuable to parties dealing in realties and 



those in need of loans, and any business entrusted to his care is 
always faithfully and honorably attended to in every particular. 
Mr. Wakefield is a native of New Hampshire, a resident of Boston 
for many years, in high standing in the re.al estate circles of the 
city, and commands the confidence of all with whom he comes in 
contact in a business way. 

RWARNEK & CO., Manufacturers and Wliolesale Deal- 
ers in Wooden Ware, Brooms, Brushes, Baskets, Mats, 
^ Etc., Nos. 36 and 38 Commercial Street.— Boston Is a 
mo.st important centre for the wholesale woodenware 
business, willowware, basket, broom and brush trade, and in the 
above lines the oldest, most enterprising and one of the largest Arms 
in Boston is that of Messrs. R. Warner & Co., of Nos. 36 and 38 Com- 
mercial Street. The business was established in 1843 by Mr. R. 
Warner, a native of Massachusetts, and one of the representative 
members of Boston's financial and commercial circles. From its 
inception, under his able management the business rapidly grew, 
and in 1846 he permanently removed to his present central stand, 
and here has continued a trade of the highest importance, both 
domestic and export. The premises comprise two buildings each 
five stories in height, 2.5x100 feet in dimensions, and where is car- 
carried the most complete stock of woodenware, willowware, etc., 
in Boston. Messrs. Warner & Co. are manufacturers on the most 
extensive scale, owning and operating a large factory in Concord, 
Mass. They began manufacturing fully thirty years ago, and have 
ever maintained the reputation of producing the most reliable and 
handsomest goods of this kind on the market. Their factory is 
fitted up with the latest improved machinery and appliances, run by 
steam power and where upwards of forty hands are employed in the 
manufacture of full lines of woodenware. The firm's stock Includes 
all standard sizes of tubs, pails and buckets, washboards, clothes 
horses, step ladders, meat safes, refrigerators, etc. ; all kinds of bas- 
kets, painted tubs, brooms and brushes for all purposes, mats, etc. 
Manufacturing themselves so extensively and contracting direct 
witli many factories for special lines in the largest quantities ; alsti 
selling extensively to jobbers, exporters, etc., this house positively 
quote.s prices that are not duplicated elsewhere. Both as to styles, 
quality and finish its goods compare favorably with any others, 
and the concern is thoroughly representative in every respect. 
Mr. Warner is a respected and public spirited citizen. He has 
been a director of the Faneuil Hall National Bank for thirty-five 
years past, and has ever pursued a policy of equity and honor, 
likewise ever according a hearty support to all measures best cal- 
culated to advance the permanent welfare and prosperity of the 
city of Boston. 

SNOW & HIGGINS, Provisions, Groceries, and General Ship 
Stores, No. 253 Atlantic Avenue.— The establishment of 
Messrs. Snow & Higgins, dealers in provisions, groceries and 
generalship stores is one of the most prominent in the section 
of the city in which it is located. Mr. J. M. Snow and Mr. R. S. 
Higgins, the copartners, have quite an extended experience in 
this line of trade, the former having been engaged in it eighteen 
years and the latter fifteen years previous to tlieir becoming 
associated in 1876. Their business connections are of the most 
satisfactory character and have established a trade and a reputa- 
tion for integrity and fair dealing which has given their house a 
wide-spread prominence. The dimensions of the premises are 
25x75 feet and complete in their arrangements and here purchases 
may be made under the most advantageous circumstances both 
with reference to quality and price. The stock embraces every- 
thing in the line of provisions and staple and fancy groceries and 
general ship stores and to assist them in the business the firm em- 
ploy two clerks and supply a large demand derived from the city 
and from vessels and make a special business of furnishing ships, 
for large or short voyages and also coasting and fishing vessels 
with supplies. They also furnish yachts with their supplies during 
the summer season and do a larger business in this line than any 
other house in Boston. Both members of the firm are natives of 
the old Bay State, are middle-aged gentlemen and as popular 
representative citizens enjoy the confidence and esteem of all 
who have dealings with their house and connections once estab- 
lished with them are sure to continue and always prove profitable 
and pleasant to all concerned. 



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CLARK & HALEY, Commission Merchants, Flour and Pro- 
duce, Clieese, Butter, Etc., Nos. 78 and 80 Uoinniercial 
Street.— As a centre of the wholesale commission produce 
trade, Boston is second to no other point In tlie United 
States, and oilers one of the finest mari<ets in tlie woiid for all 
kinds of fruits, vegetables, poultry, game, butter, clieese, etc. 
Among the leading ttrms and one of the most active and enter- 
prising of those devoted to flour, butter and cheese, is that of 
Messrs. Clark & Haley, with warehouse centrally located at Nos. 
78 and 80 Commercial Street. The business was founded by Mr. J. 
Foster Ciaric and Mr. Charles B. Haley in 1883, botli partners bring- 
ing to bear tlie widest range of practical experience, coupled with 
perfected facilities, and influential connections. Tliey speedily 
developed a desirable and growing trade, and have during the in- 
tervening period manifested special abilities in the securingof tlie 
choicest of all kinds of supplies for the New England market. 
They make a specialty of western flour, receiving direct from sev- 
eral of the most famous roller mills, and handling our standard 
and other brands of fancy patent flour, which are specially popu- 
lar with the New England public. They also are regular receivers 
of large consignments of butter, cheese, eggs and poultry. They 
are the receivers of tlie justly celebrated Cloverdale Creamery 
butter in demand with the choicest trade; also Franklin County 
Dairies. They handle the finest factory brands of cheese direct 
from the New York State and Canada markets, fresh eggs and 
poultry in season. They are prepared to promptly dispose of tlie 
largest consignments of flrst-class produce. ren<ieriiig account 
sales .at the earliest possible moment, they are are a responsible, 
honorable and one of the most desirable with which buyers and 
shippers can enter into commercial relations witli. Mr. Clark is a 
native of Chester, Vt. He has had a varied and successful career. 
For a period of fifteen years he was .actively engaged in the Penn- 
sylvania oil trade, and since 1876 h.as been a resident of Boston. 
He is a popular member of the Chamber of Commerce and a bul- 
wark of Boston produce trade. Mr. Haley was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., and from early in life h.as been .actively identified 
witli this branch of trade. He was for four years member of tlie 
firm of C. L. Cotton & Co., and is an able exponent of this branch 
of commerce. The liouse is conducted on the principles of equity ; 
its stock is worthy the attention of the best class of trade, and it 
has before it a wide sphere of activity and usefulness. 

CAPE ANN GRANITE COMPANY, Granite, Building and 
Monumental Work. Offices: No. 40 Water Street. Quar- 
ries: Bay View, Gloucester.— Tlie finest veined granites in 
the world, and the best adapted for building and monumen- 
tal work, flagging, paving, etc., is that furnished by the nationally 
celebrated Cape Ann Granite Company, of Boston. Tlie business 
Is very old established, having been founded many years .ago by 
citizens of Boston and Gloucester. In 18f>9 the important interests 
Involved were duly capitalized at $100,000, and the company incor- 
porated, with increased resources and facilities and the business 
has attained proportions of enormous magnitude, and the company 
not only supplies thousands of tons annually throughout Boston 
and New England, but ships to New York, Philadelphia, and 
other large centres in the middle states. The quarries are situ- 
ated at Bay View, Gloucester, and are operated upon the most 
extensive scale, having steam cranes and every improvement, 
also large shops for the sawing to dimensions and for polisliing 
of blocks, slabs, and shafts. This granite from its fineness of tex- 
ture, hardness and susceptibility to polish, is specially ad.apted to 
secure the finest architectural effects, and for monumental pur- 
poses. It has the endorsement of leading architects and builders, 
proprietors of monument works, etc., .and those seeking a build- 
ing material alike of great strength and beauty should place or- 
ders for Cape Ann granite. It is likewise unrivalled for flagging 
and paving purposes, and is the popular stone for the broad pave- 
ments in front of new buildings. Mr. Jonas H. French, the pres- 
ident of the company, is a capitalist and business man of the high- 
est standing, both in Gloucester and Boston, and all over tlie 
country. He is a director of the Maverick National Bank, an en- 
ergetic exponent of the soundest business principles, and has 
ably guided the company in its career of usefulness and prosper- 
ity. Mr. H. H. Bennett is the coinp.any's treasurer, and resides at 
Bay View. He is an experienced business man, possessed of the 



highest order of executive abilities, and faithfully discharges the 
onerous duties devolving upon him. The superintendent is Mr. 
Clias. W. Foster, practically experienced in the most adv,anced 
methods of quarrying, and who enforces a thorough system of or- 
ganization. The Cape Ann Granite Company is the leading expon- 
ent of this important branch of industry, and they are fully pre- 
pared to enter into the heaviest contracts for the supply of granite 
by the cargo for public buildings, private structures, and to man- 
ufacturers of, or dealers in all kinds of monumental work. 

JAMES HALL & SON, Fine Carriages. Etc., No. 21 H,awkins 
Street.— This business was established thirty-seven years ago 
by Mr. James Hall, who eventually In 1866 admitted his son 
Mr. Jiimes Hall, Jr., into partnership. In August, 1885, Mr. 
James Hall, Sr., died after a successful and honorable career. Ho 
was succeeded by his son, who is now conducting the business 
under the old firm name of James Hall & Son. The premises oc- 
cupied comprise a .spacious five-story brick building, fully sup- 
plied with every facility and convenience for the successful prose- 
cution of this useful industry. Mr. Hall manufactures to order or 
otherwise all kinds of fine carriages, buggies, etc., from a coach 
down to a trotting wagon. He employs thirty-five skilled work- 
men, and turns out nothing except first-class hand work, while 
the prices quoted for them are extremely moderate. Mr. Hall ob- 
tained medals at the centennial, Philadelphia, and at the Massa- 
chusetts Charit.able Mechanics Association for tlie superiority and 
excellence of his vehicles. He is a native of Boston. 

FRANCIS FRENCH, Proprietor of The Old Original Nova 
Scotia Employment Company, No. 298 Washington Street.— 
The largest and leading employment agency in the city is 
the widely and favoiiibly known old original Nova Scotia 
Employment Company of No. 298 W,ashington Street. Botli by 
re.ason of its f<acilities in securing tlie best class of help and suc- 
cess in placing applicants, it is thoroughly representative and en- 
joys the confidence and patronage of the best tamilies of Boston 
and New England. The business was establislied in 1868 by Mr. 
A. W. Winkfield, to whom Mr. Francis French succeeded as sole 
proprietor in 1876. He is possessed of vast practical experience 
and influenti.al connections and h.as achieved an enviable reputa- 
tion for the accuracy of all statements and the tliorough good 
character of all servants and employees hired through liiin. The 
steady growth of patronage resulted in 1888 in the removal of his 
office to its present most central stand in W.ashington Street, 
where he has splendid accommodations both for male and female 
help, and for the public to call and niivke engagements. The enor- 
mous amount of business done here indicates tlie popularity of 
Mr. French's office. A large number of persons, male and female, 
secure situations through his agency, which is by far the best place 
in town to get good, reli.able help just from the Provinces, also the 
best cl.ass of help of all nationalities, including skilled and ex- 
perienced hands for every branch of employment. Mr. French is 
a native of M.assachusetts. a business man of the highest standing 
.and responsibility and is ably and faithfully discharging his duty 
to the community in supplying it with honest, efflcient help at rea- 
sonable rates of wages. 

CHAS. D. BLAKE & CO., Music Publishers, No. 488 Washington- 
Street.— One of the best-known houses in the music publish- 
ing tr.ade is th.at of Ch.as. D. Blake & Co., No. 488 Washing- 
ton Street. Tills popular firm was establislied in 1883, Mr. 
Charles D. Blake, the sole partner has been identified with the 
business for many years and is generally acknowledged to have 
no superior in his line. The firm occupy a commodious store and 
show room, 30x40 feet in dimensions in which tliey carry an excel- 
lent line of upright, square and grand pianos of the leading mak- 
ers, handling chiefly however the celebrated Schubert Piano Com- 
pany's eleg.ant upright pianos for which they are the New England 
agents. These instruments are conceded to be the most perfect- 
toned instruments m.ade and are in wide demand all over the 
country. As mnsic publishers tlie firm of Ch.as. I). Blake has a 
rcpntatiim second to none, as a gl.ance at the catalogue of their 
publications .sent on application will convince anyone. Mr. BUake 
who is a Boston man, in the prime of life, h.as built up a splendid 
business by the exercise of ability .and energy. 



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J SMITH & CO., Manufactui-eis of Fine Harness, Interfer- 
ing Boots, ana Horse Clotliing, No. 26 Sudbury Street.— 
For strictly the finest grade and mostskillfully made lines 
of fine carriage harness, gentlemen's road and sulliy in- 
terfering boots and hor.se clothing, the American public as well as 
many foreign customers have learned to place their orders with 
the old responsible honse of Messrs. .1. Smith & Co.. of No. 26 Sud- 
bury Street. He established in bu.siness upon lus own account in 




1857 and bringing to bear natural inventive ability, sound judgment, 
keen observation and marked enterprise, he speedily created for 
his work the reputation of being the best on market. He has the 
distinguishe<l honor of being tlie first to make horse boots, and has 
introduced to the horsemen of the world the most improved and 
perfect lines of interfering boots, toe weights, etc. Mr. Smith has 
been at his present location for twenty-seven years past, and has 
every facility at command. He employs a numerous force of 
skilled hands, and turns out by far the tinest track, road and car- 
riage harness in the market at lowest prices, quality considered. 
Selecting his materials with the utmost care, Mr. Smith personally 
supervises all the work, the trimmings and mountings are the best 
obtainable, and the harness of his make are renowned alike for 
elegance and synunetry, and strengtli and durability. He manu- 
factures every description of horse boots for elbows, breasts, arms, 
knees, shin and ankle, elastic supporting boots, quarter boots, and 
toe weights and full lines of horse clothing, muzzier bandages, 
scrapers, brushes, etc., of the finest materials and most skillful 
design. Mr. Smitli's interfering boots are the neatest and most 
perfect fitting of any. The original introducer of these goods, he 
is the leading maker and fully maintains the lead of all competi- 
tors. He sells to fine trade and leading horse owners all over the 
United States and Canada, and has customers iu all parts of the 
world. 

GILLETTE & HENNIGAN, Receivers of and Wholesale Deal- 
ers in Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Banan.as, Domestic Fruits 
and Produce, No. 125 Clinton Street.— Among the leading 
and most enterprising produce commission houses of New 
Engl.aud is that of Messrs. Gillette & Hennigan. They are direct 
commission receivers from every section of the continent that in 
tlie season contributes vegetables, fruits, etc., to the markets, while 
their connections in the line of .sales are equally influential. The 
business was founded in 1877 by the present proprietors, Mr. George 
A. Gillette and Mr. P. Frank Hennigan. Both gentlemen bring to 
bear the widest range of practical experience. Their si)acious 
warehouse on the wharf has seven floors, suitably fitted ui) tor the 
Arm's piu'poses, and where they always carry a heavy and com- 
prehensive stock of sweet potatoes, apples, and all domestic fruits 
and vegetables in season, while a specialty is made of tropical 
fruits such as oranges, lemons and bananas direct from the West 



Indies, Centr.al America, Florida and the Mediterranean. Quality 
is their first consideration. They ship no fruit or green stuff not in 
prime condition and can be fully relied on by parties at a distance 
to till all orders promptly and at lowest rates. They now do a 
tradethat covers a vast area, including New Kngland, Nova Scotia, 
New Brunswick, and west and south. They employ a number 
of hands and are in daily receipt of consignments and handling 
promptly and to best advantage and make prompt returns. Mr. 
Gillette Wits born in New York State, and has resided in Boston for 
twenty-three years. Mr. Hennigan was born in Massachusetts 
and has resided here for fully twenty-five years past. They are 
popular and influential members of the trade and we strongly 
recommend both consignors of fruits .ind produce, and dealers 
and retailers to order through this able and responsible old 
house. 

THOS. W. EMERSON & CO., Growers and Jobbers in Garden, 
Field and Grass Seeds, Nos. 74 and 7G South Market Street. 
—A representative and old established liouse in Boston, ex- 
tensively engaged in growing and jobbing garden, field and 
grass seeds, is that of Messrs. Thos. Emerson & Co., wliose office 
and warehouse are located at Nos. 74 and 715 South Market Street. 
This business was established in 1839 by H. Blanchard, who was 
succeeded in 1863 by Bl.anchard & Emerson. Eventually in 1864 
Mr. Thos. W. Emerson became sole proprietor, and is now conduct- 
ing the business under the firm name of Tlios. \V. Emerson & Co. 
The premises occupied comprise a spacious five-story building 
2.5x100 feet in area, equipped with every facility and appliance 
for the systematic conduct of this growing and important business. 
Mr. Emerson grows and deals largely in garden, field and grass 
seeds, also iu beans and peas of every description for cooking pur- 
poses. His seeds are always carefully prepared lor the market, 
and are absolutely unrivalled for reliability and uniform excel- 
lence and have no superiors in this country. He constantly keeps 
on hand an inunense stock, and quotes prices that necessarily at- 
tract the attention of close and prudent buyers. Mr. Emerson 
employs a number of agents In New England, the Eastern States 
and Provinces, and his patronage is steadily increasing owing to 
the superiority of his productions and seeds, which are general 
favorites with intelligent farmers and agriculturists. Forty em- 
ployees, assistants, etc., are required in his wareliouse to attend to 
his extensive trade. Mr. Emerson was born in New Hampshire. 
He is a popular member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and 
has served on several of the committees with credit. He is highly 
esteemed in business circles .as a liberal, .able and honorable mer- 
chant, fully meriting the signal success achieved in this useful 
and valuable industry. 

HE. WOODWARD & CO., Wholesale Dealers in Salt and 
Pickled Fish, Fort Hill Wharf, Nos. 416 to 454 Atlantic 
Avenue.— One of the oldest, if not the oldest house in 
Boston, devoted to tlie wholesale trade in all kinds of 
salt and pickled fish is that of Messrs. H. E. Woodward* Co., of 
Fort Hill WharL The firm has ever been a leading representa- 
tive in this branch of commerce, and h.as contributed very materi- 
ally to the development of Boston's exi)oit and southern coast- 
wise trade. It is about fifty years ago that Mr. W. R. Clark 
started this business, Mr Harrison E. Woodward coming into co- 
partnership in 1848. under the name and style of Clark &. Wood- 
ward. It thus continued, a steadily enlarging trade being devel- 
oped until in 1873 tlie present firm w.as formed by Mr. Woodward, 
and who brings to bear the widest range of practical experience, 
perfected facilities and influential connections. His extensive 
premises are centrally located on Fort Hill Wharf, and where 
they have maintained their identical location for over fifty years 
past. Here in their warehouse, 30x150 feet and two stories in 
height, the firm carry a large and complete stock of all kinds of 
salt and pickled fish packed in every style of pack.age, as specially 
adapted to the wants of southern and foreign trade. Many car- 
goes eacli season leave Fort Hill Wharf, shipped by them to West 
Indies, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston, etc. They 
also do a heavy New England trade with wholesalers and fish 
dealers. Mr. Woodward is an active member of the Fish Associa- 
tion and a popular, respected merchant, who has ever retained 
the confidence of leading commercial circles. 



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MERCHANTS & MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO., Boston, 
Baltimore and Norfolk Steamship Line, George E. Smal- 
ley. Agent, Central Wharf.— The leading and largest 
coastwise steamship line, making Boston its eastern 
terminus Is that of the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co., 
which was duly incorporated in 1858 by leading capitalists of Bos- 
ton, Baltimore and Norfolk. The line has ever been ably managed 
and a public spirited policy has characterized its operations, its 
fleet being composed of some of the fastest, strongest and most 
seaworthy iron steamships afloat. The line is equally popular for 
passengers and on every trip there is a long list inward and 
outward from Boston. The annually incrsasing travel to the 
southern states can find no such comfortable and pleasant a route 
as this, which takes passengers direct via the Atlantic Ocean and 
Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, Baltimore and by connecting river 
steamer direct to Washington. The fare is nmcli lower than by 
rail, being only nine dollars first-class to Norfolk, and ten dollars 
first-class to Baltimore, including meals and berths, second-class 
tickets to above points are only seven dollars and also include 
meals and berth. The steamers connect with the splendid railroad 
systems of the south and west via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 
from Baltimore, and Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and 
Ohio from Norfolk. There is sleeping car and palace car service 
to Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis. Baton Rouge, New Orleans and 
West, The company's steamships make sure connections, and 
both going and returning offer most substantial inducenientstothe 
traveling public of New England and the British provinces. The 
company enjoys an enviable reputation for its successful and effi- 
cient service during the past thirty years and it has built up an 
enormous and steadily enlarging traffic. It now has a fleet of ten 
first-class steamsliips of which the following are devoted to the 
regular tri-weekly passenger service between Boston and Norfolk 
and Baltimore: "Chatham," 2,800 tons, captain, F. M. Howes; "U. 
H. Miller," 2,296 tons, captain, J. C.Taylor; "Berkshire," 2,300 
tons, captain, J. S. March, Jr.; and "Allegheny," 2,300 tons, cap- 
tain, D. P. W. Parker. These ships have large and roomy saloons 
and cabins, elegantly furnished, light and airy state-rooms, and 
every convenience and accommodation for first and second-class 
passengers. They are the equal of any steamships afloat as regards 
coastwise Atlantic service, are under the commands of able, exper- 
ienced captains and have had immunity alike from accident and 
detention. The public cannot do better than travel by this line 
when bound south on business or pleasure, and thus secure the 
invigorating breezes and pleasure of an ocean voyage, instead of 
the cramped seats or stuffed berths of the cars on the dusty and 
tedious railroad route from New England to Virginia. The com- 
pany's officers are, George J. Appold, of Baltimore, president, 
and Henry A. Whitney, of Boston, vice-president. Both are 
possessed of vast practical experience, and manifest marked 
executive ability in the management of the line. The Bos- 
ton agent is Mr. George E. Smalley, who has energetically and 
efficiently represented the company here for four years past, he is 
a popular member of Boston's business circles, and is a genial and 
courteous representative of the Company, of whom all information 
can be obtained as to rates, time of sailing, length of voyage, con- 
nections, etc. The company has largely contributed to the pros- 
perity of Boston and has opened the most direct and popular route 
for shipments of iron, cotton and tobacco from the south, and of 
New Eugland maimfactured goods from the east. 

BOYCE BROTHERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Furni- 
ture, Carpets, Etc., No. 739 Washington Street.— There is 
no branch of industry in which such rapid progress and 
improvement have been made in recent years, as in the 
production of artistic household furniture and upholstery goods. 
One of the oldest established and representative houses in Boston 
actively engaged in this important trade is that of Messrs. Boyce 
Brothers, wholesale and retail dealers. No. 739 Washington Street. 
This business was established in 1848 by Boyce Brothers and 
Squire, and after some changes in the firm, in 18fi2 Messrs. C. 
B. and Wm. Boyce succeeded to the management under the style 
and title of Boyce Brothers. The salesrooms of the firm are spa- 
cious, and are fully stocked with a superior assortment of parlor, 
library, dining-room, drawing-room, hall, chamber and kitchen 
furniture, carpets, mirrors, bedding, upholstery goods, etc. The spe- 



cialty of the house is fashionable furniture, much of which is 
made from mahogany, cherry, French walnut, rosewood and 
ebony, which, from the finenessof grain and richness of color main- 
tain always such a fine finish. The upholsterers of this popular 
house are the admiration of experts, the richest stuffs of all de- 
sirable shades and textures being used. In the carpet depart- 
ment, the firm keep constantly in stock the latest p.atterns in Wil- 
tons, body Brussels, velvets, tapestries, ingrains, also oil cloths, 
linoleum, mats and matting, all quoted at extremely low prices. 
Messrs. Boyce Brothers promptly furnish estimates for furnishing 
completely all sizes of houses and fiats, and guarantee entire sat- 
isfaction to patrons. They sell either for cash or on the install- 
ment plan, which latter method permits those of moderate cir- 
cumstances to obtain what they want for housekeeping safely and. 
easily. Messrs. C. B. and Wm. Boyce are natives of Vermont, but 
have resided in Boston since boyhood. They are highly esteemed 
by the comnuinity for their enterprise and just methods, and are 
among Boston's substantial .and public-spirited citizens. 

BARNES & CUNNINGHAM, Bankers and Brokers. Offices: 
No. 60 StateStreet.— Among the solid financial houses of Bos- 
ton, and recognized as a leading representative firm of bank- 
ers and brokers is that of Messrs. Barnes and Cunningham. 
The partners, Mr. W. Howard Barnes and Mr. Stanley Cunninghata 
are very widely and favorably known in financial circles, and are 
valued factors in promoting the importance of Boston as an active- 
market for tlie purchase and sale of all descriptions of securities. 
The business was established in 1878 by Messrs. Barnes, McBirney 
& Co., succeeded in 1883 by the present firm. Mr. Barnes is an ac- 
tive member of the Boston Stock Exchange, while Mr' Cunning- 
ham is a member of the New York Stock Exchange. The house 
by this double connection affords unexcelled facilities to its 
customers for the filling of all orders direct on the floors of the 
two leading exchanges on the continent. The firm transact a gen- 
eral business as bankers and brokers, receiving deposits and al- 
lowing interest on daily balances; buying and selling on commis- 
sion, for cash or on margin, all descriptions of stocks, bonds, and 
miscellaneous securities, making a specialty of those listed on the 
Boston and New York Exchanges. Their connections are infiuen- 
tial and wide-spread ; they have the most perfect facilities for the 
receipt of the earliest information as to the course of the market,, 
having in their offices the tickers of the Boston and New York 
Exchanges, also a private wire direct to New York, Philadelphia 
and Chicago. They number among their customers leading cap- 
italists and operators, and have carried through to a successful is- 
sue many important transactions. No firm offers better facilities 
to corporations for the placing of their bonds, and none have a 
more enviable reputation with the public as to sales of remunera- 
tive and safe investment securities. Messrs. Barnes & Cunning- 
ham are prominent and popular In the leading financial and 
social circles of Boston, New York and elsewhere. 

TAMARACK MINING COMPANY, No. 246 Washington Street- 
— This representative and successful copper mining corpor- 
ation was duly incorporated under the laws of Michigan in 
1882, and has a capital stock of $1,260,000 in 50,000 shares of 
$25 each, 40,000 shares issued, 10,000 shares in the treasury. The 
following gentlemen are the officers and directors: President,. 
Joseph W. Clark ; Secretary and treasurer, A. S. Bigelow. Direc- 
tors, John N. Denison, Franklin Fairbanks, Joseph W. Clark, 
Nathaniel Thayer, Edward S. Grew, George F. Bemis, and John 
D.aniell, of Michigan. The result of last year's mining relative 
to cost, has never before been equalled by any copper mine 
in the world. The promise made by the management of 
producing copper at a cost of six cents a pound has been real- 
ized. The company owns 1,160 acres of rich copper lands and last 
year its mine yielded 10,389,867 pounds of refined copper for which 
it realized $1,-148,943.88. The works of the Tamarack Mining Com- 
pany are equal in all modern appliances and machinery to any- 
thing in the United States or Europe. This extensive property i& 
now held by the company without debt or incumbrance, and is 
now paying dividends at the rate of $20 per share annually. The 
officers and directors are able business men, and experts in mining 
matters. The company's Boston office is centrally located at 
No. 246 Washington Street. 



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BROWN, RILEY & CO., Bankers and Brokers, Nos. 9 Congress 
Street, and 4 Congress Square.— One of the best known 
representative houses wliieh has materially contributed to 
the importance and stability of the Huston stock and money 
markets is that of Messrs. Brown, Kiley & Co., of No. 9 ,Congre.ss 
Street, and No. 4 Congress Square. Messrs. A. L. Brown and W. J. 
Kiley formed the existing copartnership in 1S73 and have developed 
a trade of great magnitude, coupled with a wide-spread, influential 
connection. They transact a general business as bankers and 
brokers, deposits are received, and interest allowed on balances; 
collections are made and exchange bought and sold. The tlrm 
make a specialty of the purchase and sale on commission for cash 
or margin, of all securities dealt in at the Boston and New York 
Stock Exchange including petroleum; also cotton futures and 
spot cotton, grain, lard, pork, etc. They enjoy unsurpassed facili- 
ties, bringing to bear ample resources, vast practical experiences 
and influential connections. Mr. Brown is an active member both 
of the Boston Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange; 
while Mr. Riley is a member of the Boston Stock Exchange, and of 
the New York Cotton Exchange. The latter connection affords un- 
usual opportunities to Boston capitalists for direct dealings and 
quick turns in the cotton market. The firm have a private wire to 
New Y'ork, their correspondents there being Messes. Edward 
Sweet & Co., of Broad Street. They have elegantly fitted up and 
most centrally located offices with every convenience for custo- 
mers, and receive the earliest accurate information as to the course 
of the market. They number among their customers leading capi- 
talists and operators of this city and New England, and have con- 
ducted several of the most important movements in this market. 
Both gentleman have ever extended a hearty and valued support 
to all measures best calculated to advance the welfare and pros- 
perity of the Boston Stock Excliange, and rank among the most 
conservative houses, whose advice and judgment can at all times 
be relied on, so that their extensive business is the result of the 
exercise of legitimate commercial principles based on sterling in- 
tegrity and the highest order of executive ability. 

RH. EDDY, Former Associates and now Successors, W. H. 
.Singleton and S. N. Piper, Solicitor of Patents, No. 76State 
J Street.— The first regular solicitor to appear before the 
United States Patent office in behalfof an inventor, was Mr. 
R. H. Eddy, whoesl.ablished himself in the practice of his^rofession 
In Boston in 1832. He steadily and successfully followed the prac- 
tice of patent law until his death, which occurred in May, 1887. 
The business has since been continued by Mr. W. H. Singleton, 
Counsellor-at-lavv, and Mr. S. N. Piper, meelianical expert, former 
associates of Mr. Eddy and now his successors, at No. 76 State 
Street, in this city, with an office also in the St Cloud Building, 
opposite the Patent office, Washington, D. C. Mr. Singleton had 
been the Washington correspondent for Mr. Eddy for many years, 
and still resides in th.at city .and personally attends to the business 
of this office before the Bureau of Patents. His reputation has 
long been firmly established as an able, scientific and successful 
solicitor, and as a clear-headed, reliable counsellor in patent 
causes. No attorney is better known at the Patent Officp, and 
none can secure fairer treatment or more prompt consideration of 
their cases. Mr. Piper had been .an assistant in Mr. Eddy's office 
since 1865, and is now the resident manager of the business in this 
city. He is an experienced solicitor of patents, accomplished and 
practical as a mechanical expert, and his papers, filed in the in- 
terest of his clients, are models of accuracy, wisdom and perfect 
understanding of the case in hand, The f.acilities here possessed 
for securing patents are unsurpassed by those of any office in the 
country. The practice here relates to the preparation and prose- 
cution of applications for patents, including the making out of 
specifications, drawings, caveats, assignments, reissues, designs, 
trade marks, labels and copyrights ; the m.aking of preliminary 
examinations .as to the patentability of an invention, and to exam- 
inations as to the scope and validity of patents; to cases in inter- 
ference, upon appeal and before the courts, and to every other 
item of service necessary to the complete success of the applica- 
tion down to the time the patent is granted and issued by the com- 
missioner of patents, and patents are also procured in all foreign 
countries for citizens here. Messrs. Singleton and Piper are both 
gentlemen of thehigliest personal integrity. 



A PORTER, Optician, No. 333 Washington Street.— 
Among the well-known and prominent opticians in 
J this city there are none more thoroughly compe- 
tent than Mr A. Porter, whose experience extends 
over forty years in the profession, and in 1871 he estab- 
lished business on his own account, fully conversant and 
equipped in every particular, and familiar with all the details con- 
nected therein. He occupies a vei'y handsome store 30x40 feet 
in area, at No. 333 Wasliington Street, and keeps in stock a gen- 
eral assortment of all kinds of spectacles, and eye-glasses and 
optical goods. Mr. Porter is highly recommended for his skill and 
knowledge as an optician, and he is very careful with oculists' 
prescriptions which are correctly set and every attention is given, 
to all orders. Spectacles and eye-glasses are manufactured in the 
very best manner, and in fitting glasses to suit the sight of the eye, 
he is probably tlie most practical expert in the city. Particular atten- 
tion is given to repairing spectacles, eye-glasses, opera-glasses and 
optical goods generally, and everything coming from the establish- 
ment is fully guaranteed to be as represented. Two skilled assis- 
tants are employed and those who have dealings witli Mr. Porter, 
will not only receive the very best class of goods and satisfactory 
work but manifest advantages in prices. He is a native of tlie 
state of New Hampshire, where he was born about sixty-five years 
ago. He however has passed most of his life in this city where he lias 
not only become well known as one of the best among the leading 
opticians, but is held in high esteem in professional and in social 
circles. 

JF. AMSDEN&SON.Bankers, No. .W Congress Street. —One of 
the most favorably known.substantial and enterprising firms 
^ of bankers in the city of Boston, is that of Messrs. J. F. Ains- 
den & Son, whose handsome offices are centrally located at 
No. SOCongress Street. This business was established twelve years 
ago by Mr. J. F. Amsden, who admitted his son, Mr. H. F Amsden, 
into partnership. This house has long held an honorable position in 
financial circles, and numbers among its permanent customers 
many wealthy capitalists, operators, and Investors. Messrs. J. F. 
Amsden & Son transact a general banking business, receiving de- 
posits subject to check at sight, making collections on all available 
points, and acting as correspondents for a number of banks and 
bankers. As brokers, they promptly fill all orders for the purchase 
or sale of all stocks, bonds. Government and miscellaneous securi- 
ties as listed on the Boston and New York Stock Exchanges, strictly 
on commission. They likewise make a specialty of the purchase 
of municipal bonds, western mortgages and other dividend-paying 
securities. Mr. H. F. Amsden represents the house on the floor or 
the Boston Stock Exchange. Their correspondents in New York 
are Messrs. H. L. Horton & Co. Both partners are highly regarded 
in fln.ancial life for their integrity, promptness and .ability, as 
well as social worth, and have made themselves prominent in a 
field of monetary business of the greatest importance to all who 
desire a good and safe income with absolute security for their In- 
vestments. 

FRANCIS H. LINCOLN, Real Estate and Insurance, No. 60- 
Devonshire Street.— Mr. Francis H. Lincoln, the well-known 
real estate broker .and insurance agent, is a prominent citi- 
zen of Hingham, Mass., his native town, and opened his 
office in this city in 1873. He has proven his thorough knowledge 
of the various details embraced in real estate and insurance, and 
gives his attention to the purchase, sale and renting of prop- 
erties, both improved and unimproved, in the city and country; 
collects rents, manages estates, and negotiates loans on bond and 
mortgage. Special attention is given to flre insurance, and Mr. 
Lincoln is especially prominent as agent for the Hingham Mutual 
Fire Insurance Co. for Boston and vicinity. This company was 
incorporated in 1826. and its sixty-second annual statement, made 
April 1, 1888, shows the following facts and figures, viz: amount at 
risk. $23,751.7.'i3.00; cash assets. $.'?44,993.76 : liabilities, 8186,002.37;, 
surplus over liabilities. $l.'i8.991.39. Seventy thousand dollars in 
dividends have been paid b.ack to policy-holders the past year. 
Mr. Lincoln is also prepared to place the largest risks in any of 
the desirable companies, quoting the lowest rates of premium, and 
guaranteeing a prompt and liberal adjustment of all losses. Mr. 
Lincoln is highly esteemed in insurance circles. 



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BROWN, DeLORIEA & CO., Commission Mercliants, and 
Dealers in Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Etc., Nos. 89 and 91 Soutli 
Marlcet Street, and No. 60 Commerce Street.— Among the 
most active and enterprising firms of produce commission 
mercliants in Boston is that of iMessrs. Brown, DeLoriea & Co. 
whose establishment is so centrally located at Nos. 89 and 91 
South Market Street, and No. 60 Commerce Street. The business 
was foundedinl880bytlie present proprietors, Messrs. A. C. Brown 
and J. F. DeLoriea. They brought to bear perfected facilities, 
ample resources and wide experience. Every element essential 
to the advancement of the interests of consigners and the public 
has been controlled by this popular house, and whose trade is en- 
larging at such a rapid ratio. The premises occupied are un- 
usually extensive, comprising five floors each 25x100 feet, and 
suitably fitted up for trade purposes. They aie direct and regular 
receivers of staple lines of produce, including the choicest of 
western and New York State creamery and dairy butter; New 
York and Western cheese, fresh eggs, peas, beans, dried apples 
and peaches, lard, etc., etc. The firm offer substantial induce- 
ments to buyers, growers and shippers all over the country, and 
handle the largest consignments quickly, rendering prompt ac- 
count sales. Their selling trade is heavy and one of a very desira- 
ble character, as they cater to the leading houses of Boston and 
all the cities and towns of New England. The copartners are 
very widely and favorably known. Mr. Brown is a native of 
Winslow, Maine, and has been a permanent resident of Boston for 
twenty-three years past. He is an active member of tlie Chamber 
of Commerce, and a popular member of the trade; so is Mr. De- 
Loriea, who was born in Woburn, Mass., and tliough a young man 
is old in experience. He also is a popular member of the Chamber 
-of Commerce. 

BS. MOULTON & CO., Art Gallery, Engravings, Water Colors, 
Etchings, Paintings, Etc., No. 42 Hanover Street.— For 
J strictly high class works of art, engravings, paintings, 
water colors, etchings, etc., we strongly recommend an 
appreciative public to inspect the magnificent display in the art 
gallery of Messrs. B. S. Moulton & Co., so centrally located at No. 
42 Hanover Street, near the American House. The business was 
established about twenty years, by Mr. B. S. Moulton, a gentleman 
who both by tastes, direct practical experience and skill was quali- 
fied to cater to the wants of the public in this branch of trade. He 
has had his gallery in its present location for fifteen years. It Is 
28x110 feet, handsomely furnished and fully stocked with the high- 
est class of steel engravings, water colors and oil paintings by 
artists of renown ; etchings, photographs and art goods. There is 
here the widest range forselection while the prices are remarkably 
reasonable. Mr. Moulton has a large picture frame depot and 
gilding room up-stairs. and is prepared to promptly fill all orders 
for any style of frame ; old frames are also here regilt in tlie high- 
est style of the art, and at moderate prices. Mr. Moulton does a 
heavy trade in Boston and all over New England, also has many 
customers in nearly every section of the Union. He has even filled 
orders from as far away as Buenos Ayres, and those living at a 
distance, seeking adornments for the house, cannot do better than 
communicate with Mr. Moulton, who has all the facilities and the 
ability to suit them. He employs nine salesmen and assistants, 
and is doing one of the finest trades in this line in Boston. He is 
an honorable business man, and is a worthy member of art circles 

STORY & STEVENS, Wholesale and Commission Dealers in 
Fresli and Frozen Fish, Nos. 35 and 36 Commercial Wharf 
—Boston justly feels a sense of pride in her wholesale fisli 
trade, the most prominent and extensive of any in the 
United States, and which reflects such credit on the leading 
houses engaged therein. There is none more representative than 
that of Messrs. Story and Stevens, of Nos. 35 and .36 Commercial 
Wharf. They deal in fresh and frozen fish at wholesale and re- 
tail, and started in business about ten years ago, bringing to bear 
the widest range of practical experience, perfected facilities and 
nifluential connections. From the start they offered to the trade 
superior qualities of carefully selected fresh and frozen fish, and 
have always made a specialty of the famous Phillips beach cod, 
pronounced the finest in the world by competent experts. The 
demand for this catch of cod is always active, and the firm's facil- 



ities are taxed to the utmost. They occupy most centrally located 
and admirably fitted up premises at Nos. 35 and 36 Commercial 
Wharf, where they are daily receivers of all fish in season, includ- 
ing Phillips beach cod, halibut, herring, mackerel, smelts, sal- 
mon, blue fish, etc. They also handle lake and southern fish, and 
are prepared to promptly lill the largest orders. They sell all 
through Boston and suburbs, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New 
York City and State. Philadelphia, etc , and offer substantial in- 
ducements to proprietors of fish markets to place orders here. They 
handle and ship several tons of fish a day, and are authorities in 
the market. Both partners are natives of Rockport, Mass , and 
have long been identified with the wholesale fish trade of Boston. 
Their policy is an equitable one. They have ever retained the 
confidence of leading commercial circles, and are worthy of the 
large measure of success attending their ably directed efforts. 

WHITON, BROTHER & CO., Agents tor the Woodberry Cot- 
ton Duck Mills, Nos. 91 and 93 Commercial Street.— 
Prominent among the great manufacturing establish- 
ments of tlie United States, which liave by permanently 
locating a branch in Boston, added so materially to the city's in- 
fluence as a source of supply, are the Woodbury Cotton Duck Mills, 
of which Messrs. Wliiton, Brother & Co., Nos. 91 and 93 Commercial 
Street, are the popular agents. This agency was established 
originally in 1830 by A. Fearing & Co., who were succeeded in 1835 
by Fearing, Tliatcher & Whiton. In 1861 Mr. Whiton retired and 
organized the present firm of Whiton, Brotlier & Co. The present 
partners are Messrs. E. J. Whiton and Walton Hall, both of whom 
became members of the firm in 1879 on the death of Mr. L. C. 
Whiton. The Woodberry Cotton Duck Mills are situated in Balti- 
more, Md. They are among the largest and best equipped in the 
country, and one-third of tlieir product is handled by the Boston 
agents, Messrs. Whiton, Brother & Co. The firm occupy spacious 
premises and always keep in stock full supplies of the famous 
Woodberry Cotton Duck, which is absolutely unriv.alled for quality, 
dur.ability, strength, finish and excellence, and has no superior in 
the American or European markets. They give special attention to 
packing the cotton duck in waterproof packages for export, and 
promptly fill all orders at the lowest possible prices and their trade 
now extends not only throughout the United States and Can,ada,but 
also to Europe, South America, India, China and Australia. Mr. 
Whiton \fa.s born in Boston, while Mr. Hail is a native of Marsh- 
field, Mass. They are popular members of the Cotton Duck Deal- 
ers' Association, and are highly esteemed in trade circles for their 
enterprise and integrity, and are accounted among Boston's public 
spirited citizens. 

CASWELL, LIVERMORE & CO., Wholesale Dealers in Smoked, 
Salt and Pickled Fish; Store, Snow's Arch Wharf; Nos. 
416 to 428 Atlantic Avenue; Smoked Fish Works, Wales 
Wharf.— One of the oldest established and most important 
concerns in the wholesale fish trade of Boston is that of Messrs. 
Caswell, Livermore & Company, of Nos. 416 to 428 Atlantic Avenue 
(Snow's Arch Wharf). The extensive business conducted here 
was founded nearly sixty years ago by James Perkins, and after 
various firm changes, in 18S0, Messrs. Caswell, Livermore & Com- 
pany bought out the heirs of K. and S. A. Freeman, actively con- 
tinuing the trade, and making a specialty of high grade smoked 
fish of their own preparation. Mr, G. K. Livermore retired in 1887, 
and since then Mr. A. S. Caswell has actively carried on the busi- 
ness and with marked success. He is a native of Maine, and a 
practical man, having from boyhood been identified with the cur- 
ing and smoking of fish. His premises here are extensive, com- 
prising three floors, 90x100 feet each, and large smoke house at- 
tached, where French cod, mackerel, herring, salmon, halibut, etc., 
are smoked, boned <and packed upon the most approved methods. 
Upw.ards of twenty-five hands are employed, and the product is in 
constantly growing demand both witli the New England and ship- 
ping tr.ade. Mr. Caswell deals in full lines of salt and pickled 
fish, and offer substantial inducements both as to price and 
quality, and his is the only house here dealing in French cod fish, 
in which they have a large trade. It is to such ably and honorably 
conducted houses as these that Boston owes her supremacy in the 
wholesale trade in salt and smoked fish, and Mr. Caswell, Is tp 
be congratulated upon the success rewarding his efforts. 



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Wl'. PHILLIPS, Manufacturer of Lubricators, Boiler 
Trimmings and General Brass Work; No. 71 Sudbury 
J Street.— In the vitally important lines of lubricators 
for steam engines, shafting, etc., and in the manufac- 
ture of tlie best grades of improved steam users' supplies, 
Mr. W. P. Phillips, of 
Boston, has achieved a na- 
tional reputation. He 
started in business upon 
his own account about six 
years ago and is developing 
a large trade in steam 
users' supplies, and in his 
specialties of great magni- 
tude. His lubricators are 
tlie best in tlie world, rem- 
edying the inherentdefects 
of old style methods for 
the bearings of high speed 
engines, continuous service 
and providing automatic 
and perfected methods that 
have secured the heartiest 
er.dorsement of steam 
users. Mr. Pliillips has a 
large and fully equipped 
machine shop largely de- 
voted to the manufacture 
of the best class of brass 
fittings and various lines 
of steam users' supplies- 
One of his prominent speci- 
alties is an improved water 
gauge, of which large num- 
bers are now in use. It is 
a vast improvement over 
old style gauges, and cou- 




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pies the easiest and most securely of any 
in the world. To all interested in the 
best type of boiler trimmings— and no- 
where are they so needful and such a 
safeguard as in the boiler room— send 
to Mr. Phillips for his elegant illustrated 
circular describing his various devices. 
Mr. Phillips is unremitting ni his attention to business and gives 
conscientious care to accurate filling of all orders. He has 
a deservedly high reputation with builders and engineers. 

EYELET TOOL CO., G. W. Robbins, Agent, No. 40 Lincoln 
Street.— The founder of this concern, Mr. G. W. Robbins, is 
an old, well-known, popular Bostonian, who was born in this 
city in 1816. His business career has been an extended one. 
In 1840 he established a music and umbrella store on Court Street, 
and continued this until he founded his present enterprise, the 
manufacture of tools, in 1861. The enterprise has been attended 
by the most marked success, and the premises now in use have 
been occupied since 1878. The workshop has an area of 28x100 feet, 
and is equipped with all necessary steam power machinery and 
other appliances, while constant employment is afforded to from 
six to eight skilled artisans. The tools made here include eyelet 
punch and set combined, 8-inch eyelet set, paper punch, burr 
set, drive or belt punch, sample tubes for spring punches, 8-inch 
spring punch, 6-incli and other sizes of spring punches, etc. 
These tools are regarded as standard goods in the trade, because 
of their being always in working condition and thoroughly re- 
liable. The house has a fine business connectionvvith all sections 
of the United States, and has an excellent financial standing. 



FG. BARNES & SON, Auctioneers, Real Estate, Mortgage and 
Insurance Brokers, No. 27 State Street.— This lirni liave 
J long been prominent botli as auctioneers, real estate, 
mortgage and insurance brokers, and have largely con- 
tributed to the development of the real estate interests of 
the city and its suburbs. Tlie business was originally es- 
tablished in 1857, by Mr. F. G. Barnes, the present style 
being adopted in 1874. The founder of the business died May 31, 
1888, the son continuing the business under the same firm name. 
Mr. Barnes conducts an extensive real estate business in all its 
branches; buying, sellnig, renting and exchanging properties of 
all kinds; negotiating loans on bond and mortgage, taking the 
entire management of estates, collecting rents, and selling private 
city and country property at auction. He has made the study of 
real estate a specialty, and can be engaged with implicit confi- 
dence in all matters pertaining thereto. He handles a class of 
houses and lots in Newton and other suburban towns, such as the 
average buyer wants, either for a home or investment. He is also 
prepared to place insurance risks in any of the leading con\panies, 
securing payment for all losses promptly and without litigation, 
and quoting the lowest rates of premium. By the careful and able 
manner in which he conducts his iiffairs, Mr. Barnes has estab- 
lished a reputation and developed a clientele in this city and else- 
where that assures his continued success and permanent pros- 
perity. He is a Massachusetts man by birth and training. 

FJ. O'HARA & CO., Wholesale and Commission Dealers In 
Fresh Fish and Lobsters, Oysters, Clams, Etc., Nos. 112 
, and 116 Atlantic Avenue.~A representative house in its 
special line of trade, is thutof F. J.O'Hara&Co., the well- 
known wholesale and connnission dealers in fresh fish and lob- 
sters, cod liver oil for medicinal purposes, oysters, clams, etc 
This house is one of tlie largest of its kind in the city, and has been 
in successful operation since 1877. Mr O'Hara, the active mem- 
ber of the firm, is a merchant of large experience and established 
reputation, and has long enjoyed a national reputation in the sale 
of live and boiled lobsters, fresh fish, oysters and clams. He occu- 
pies two spacious and commodious stores, thoroughly equipped in 
every particular. The trade is carried on at both wholesale and 
retail, and orders are filled with the utmost despatch, coming from 
all parts of the United States. As a commission merchant, Mr. 
O'll.ara has a wide and infiuential connection with fishermen along 
the coast, and is daily in receipt of the choicest lobsters, fish, 
oysters and clams to be found in this market, while quick sales and 
prompt returns are the invariable rule with this establishment. 
Employment is furnished to twelve skilled and expert hands. Mr. 
O'Hara has resided in Boston since his boyliood. 

ARCHER & PANCOAST MANUFACTURING CO., Gas Fix- 
tures, Warren D. Kinny, Manager ; No. 12 West Street.— In 
1880 this widely known company opened an establishment 
in Boston, located at No. 12 West Street. This house is 
under the experienced management of Mr. Warren D. Kinny, who 
has been connected with the company in New York for a number 
of years, and succeeded to the control of this establishment in 
October, 1887. He is intimately conversant with every require- 
ment of the public in this direction of trade, and has proved him- 
self eminently popular and successful in meeting promptly all its 
demands. The spacious show rooms at tlie above address are 
models of elegance, taste and beauty, the goods shown making a 
magnificent display, and forming one of the most attractive fea- 
tures of this fashionable thoroughfare. Here can be seen all that 
inventive genius and mechanical skill have been able to produce 
in the way of artistic illuminating apparatus, while the assortment 
of fine metal work is unsurpassed in the city. Tliis house has fitted 
up with gas fixtures and electric light apparatus some ofihe larg- 
est and finest public edifices in this section of the country. Hun- 
dreds of Boston's palatial private residences and extensive com- 
mercial buildings also bear evidence of their artistic products. It 
is such concerns as the Archer & Pancoast Manufacturing Com- 
pany that are the acknowledged exponents of our capacity and 
enterprise as a manufacturing and commercial centre, and there 
is none more deserving of special mention. Mr. Kinny, the man- 
ager, has made many friends in this city by his promptness and 
reliable business policy. 



ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



THE GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, 
Importers, Coffee Boasters and Retailers ol Teas and 
Coffees, No. 92 Court Street, and Five Branch Stores.— Tlie 
people of the United St.ates are under great obligations to 
the spirited and honorable policy of The Great Atlantic and 
Pacific Tea Company, the largest concern of its kind in the world 
and the pioneer in importing direct for the benefit of retail custo- 
mers. The company import teas and coffees by the ship load, and 
holding in great warehouses in New York and Boston millions of 
pounds of the choicest fresh crop teas and select coffees in order 
to meet the wants of its hundreds of thousands of consumers, and 
who are served in the company's chain of 2flO branch stores. The 
first store was opened in Boston in 1875 and there are now four 
others in this city and one in Clielsea so great has been the in- 
crease of trade. The headquarters for the enormous business done 
in Boston and New England is at No. 92 Court Street, where is a 
splendid store and salesroom, .30x81) feet in dimensions, fitted up in 
most elaborate manner. Here are a series of mannnoth pictures 
illustrating the growing of teas and coffees, etc. There is every 
modern convenience here, including the cash railway system, two 
large coffee grinders run by a gas engine, etc. A large staff of 
experienced and courteous clerks are employed and the store is 
thronged with customers. On a Saturday night the stores of The 
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. are brilliant with light and full of 
the bustle and activity incident to thousands purchasing their 
weekly supplies of te,as. coffees, sugars, etc. The company's inter- 
ests have been rapidly advanced in Boston and New England and 
the public have come to realize that nowhere can such pure choice 
and fresh teas and coffees be purchased at such remarkably low 
prices as in The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.'s chain of stores 
and the location of which are as follows: Heiidquarters, No. 92 
Court Street. Branches, No. 20 Eliot Street, and No. 1078 Tremont 
Street; No. 292 Broadway, Chelsea; No. 109 Meridian Street, East 
Boston; No. 305 West Broadway, South Boston. 

GEO. B. APPLETON & CO., Importers and Dealers in Cutlery, 
Fancy Hardware, Skates and Fishing Tackle, No. 304 Wash- 
ington Street.— The most progressive firm engaged in the im- 
portation and sale of cutlery, leather goods, fancy hardware, 
fishing tackle and skates, in this city,-is that of Messrs. Geo. B. 
Appleton & Co. Their methods, character and quality of stock 
bear no comparison with the average dealer in this line. Every 
class in the community finds it pleasant and profitable to buy here, 
where is carried the finest assortment in this line in town. The 
business of this enterprising house w.as originally established Jan- 
uary 1, 1883, by Messrs. Appleton & Litchfield, who were succeeded 
by the present firm on November 15, 1887. The store is spacious 
and attractive, and the proprietors bring to bear ample resources 
and perfected facilities in collecting together from the four corners 
of the earth such a bewildering, yet charming display of the 
unique and the useful, the novel and the beautiful, in the lines of 
cutlery, fancy hardware, fishing tackle, etc. The stock embraces 
the products of the most celebrated makers both in Europe and 
America. In cutlery the assortments include the best ivory 
handled knives, forks, carvers, slicers, steels, knife-rests, spoons 
of solid silver and heaviest electro-plate ; also, beautiful sets of 
knives, forks and spoons in satin-lined cases, admirably suited for 
wedding and holiday presents. In fancy hardware Messrs. Apple- 
ton & Co. show one of the largest and most serviceable varieties 
in America, while as regards fishing tackle the assortment is un- 
equalled anywhere for material, design and novelty. It is simply 
impossible to particularize, or to attempt an enumeration of the 
goods in stock. It is safe to say they keep everything. The 
copartners, Messrs. Geo. B. Appleton and Charles Z. Bassett, are 
both natives of Boston and gentlemen of large experience, emi- 
nent business ability and strict integrity. 

JW. TUTTLE & SONS, Wholesale Commission Merchants 
for the sale of all kinds of Country Produce, Nos. 16 and 18 
J Clinton Street.— An honorable and successful career of 
forty-five years has given the house of Messrs. J. W. Tuttle 
& Sons, the well-known wholesale commission merchants, a high 
standing in the great thoroughfares of trade. The business was 
founded in 1843, by Mr. J. W. Tuttle. In 1S48 Mr. Geo. W. Tuttle 
was admitted to partnership, followed in 1874 by the admission of 



Mr. Charles Jones and in 1875 by the admission of Mr. Chas. H. 
Tuttle, and in 1883 Mr. Herbert A. Tuttle, who had been connected 
with the house five years, also became a member of the firm. The 
founder of the house retired from active business in 1885, and the 
remaining partners have since continued the enterprise under the 
present firm name. These gentlemen are recognized as merchants 
of wide and mature experience; tiioroughly posteil in all the wants 
and requirements of the commission interest, and as among the 
most [active and efficient trade representatives of Boston. They 
command all the advantages naturally accumulated by long years 
of identification with a particular industry, and are in a position 
to render the most valuable service to such as commit their inter- 
ests to their care. The lines handled embrace butter, cheese and 
eggs, beans, apples and potatoes, poultry, fresh meat and dressed 
hogs, maple sugar and syrup, and all kinds of country produce. 
The populous and fertile section of which this city is the centre 
gives her great importance as a point of distribution for these prod- 
ucts, and the commission merchant and dealer is the recognized 
medium through which such goods are placed upon the market 
Every facility and convenience is at hand here for the transaction 
of a large and active trade. Consignments are received daily in 
vast quantities, fresh from the hands of the producer, and are dis- 
posed of without delay, the highest prices being invariably 
obtained, and remittances are promptly made. A large and com- 
plete stock is always kept on hand, from which orders are filled 
with the utmost satisfaction. The house is responsible in every 
way, and can be relied upon implicitly. The copartners are all 
Massachusetts men, born and bred, members of the Chamber ot 
Commerce and the Fruit and Produce Exchange, and highly 
esteemed in social, business and financial circles. 

JDOOLING, Caterer and Confectioner, Nos. 11 and 13 Temple 
Place.— The business of the caterer and confectioner is an 
^ important one and is well represented by Mr. J. Dooling 
who has had many years' practical experience aud enjoys 
the distinction of being one of the most proficient in the city. He 
has been established in the business since 1861 and was formerly 
on Washington Street — south end— but during tlie past four years 
he has occupied the very eligible and commodious premises at 
Nos. 11-13 Temple Place which have dimensions of 30x90 feet and 
are attractively fitted up in modern style with ornamental fixtures, 
plate glass cases and marble tile flooring. Mr. Dooling furnishes 
parties, weddings and dinners with all the delicacies and dainties, 
fancy cake, ices and ice cream and confections of every kind and 
also table ornaments and personally looks after all orders himself. 
His establishment is well equipped for meeting all demands 
promptly and he numbers among his patrons many of the leading 
families in the city and vicinity and throughout the New England 
States. Lunches, dainties and delicacies are furnished to the 
public and patrons in the commodious saloon parlors adjoining the 
store and ladies and gentlemen will find here a great variety from 
which to make a selection of something delicious and appetizing. 
Mr. Dooling was born and brought up in this city and is one of the 
most expert and we may say " prince of caterers" whose skill in 
preparing tempting dishes and choice confections is not surpassed 
by any other in Boston. 

ROBERT JUDGE, Merchant Tailor, Boylston Building, Wash- 
ington and Boylston Streets.— The merchant tailoring trade 
has many and able representatives in Boston but none 
better known or more jiopular than the gentleman whose 
name appears in the above heading. Mr. Judge is a native of 
Boston where he early served his apprenticeship and became an 
expert tailor. As far back as 1860 he began business for himself 
and in the interval has built up an enviable reputation and 
secured the substantial regard of the local trade. The present 
premises which liave been occupied for the past four years are 
very desirably located in the Boylston building, Washington and 
Boylston Streets. In the attractive salesroom is .shown a carefully 
selected line ot imported and domestic suitings, trouserings, over- 
coatings, etc., which are made up in the highest degree ot artistic 
and mechanical excellence by a corps of experienced tailors. 
Mr. Judge counts among his many patrons some of the leading 
society and business men of the town and is generally respected 
as one of the ablest city exponents of his art. 



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JF. BUMSTEAD & CO., Importers o£ Paper Hangings ami 
Textile Fabrics for Interior Decoration, No. 148 Tremoiit 
, .Street and Nos. 40 and 46 West Street.— By far the oldest 
established in its line, and one of the oldest in New Eng- 
land is the famous house of Messrs. .J, F. Bumstead & Co., tlie 
leading importers and dealers in high art paper hangings. The 
business was founded by the late Mr. Josiah Bumstead, grand- 
father of the present proprietor, in 1790. It was the pioneer and 
exponent of the most advanced skill of old world manufacturers, 
and continued ever in the van of progress. About 1830, Mr. Bum- 
stead took his son, Mr. Josiah F. Bumstead, into copartnership 
under the style of J. Bumstead & Son. the junior partner being 
tlie father of the present proprietor. In 1845 Mr. Josiah Bumstead 
retired, and In 1859 Mr. J. F. Bumstead formed a copartnership 
with Mr. N. Willis Bumstead, his .son, under the existing n.ime 
and style of .1. F. Bumstead & Co. The lamented decease of the 
senior partner occurred in 1868, since which date Mr. N. Willis 
Bumstead has remained sole proprietor. The concern's original 
location was in Cornhill, later on having been rcnmved to the 
site of the present Herald building on Washington Street. In 1845 
it was removed to the large store corner of Spring Lane and Wash- 
ington Street. Steady growth of trade necessitated further 
enlargement and in 1868 they removed to their present splendid 
premises on Tremont and West Streets, having an area of 30 feet 
by 100 by 60. extending through an L into West Street. Mr. N. 
Willis Bumstead is the leading authority on foreign and the best 
of domestic paperhangings and also on curtains, and the rich and 
beautiful textile fabrics used for interior decorations. Here he 
carries the largest, most elaborate and artistic stock of paper- 
hangings in tlie city; lie is an expert in regard to .shades and 
effects, and to the patterns which will best serve the purposes of 
harmonious designs in household decoration. In rich draperies he 
is in regular receipt of the latest novelties, and from this innnense 
stock the most exacting taste can be satisfied and secure shades 
and patterns of papers and fabrics adapted to any of the numer- 
ous styles of interior decorative treatment. He numbers among 
his customers the leading families of Boston and New England. 
Mr. Bumstead was born in Boston and is a veteran officer of the 
war of the rebellion, having gone to tlie front as captain of the 
Forty-Fifth Massachusetts volunteers, gallantly leading them dur- 
ing numerous battles and engagements throughout the war- He 
is a director of the Louisville, EvansviUe and St. Louis Railroad; 
and of the Pueblo Reftniugand Smelting Company, ever ably and 
faithfully discharging the onerous duties thus devolving upon 
him. 

JL. BROCKWAY & CO., Wholesale Grocers, Country Produce, 
Etc., No. 29 Norman Street. Branches: Harv.ard Square, 
^ Brookline, and No.350 Broadway, Chelsea.— One of the most 
popular, ably conducted and largely patronized firms of 
wholesale grocers in Boston and suburbs is that of Messrs. J. L. 
Brockway & Co., with main warehouse at No. 29 Norman Street. 
The business was established about twenty years ago by Mr. J. L. 
Brockway who brings to bear perfected facilities, influential con- 
nections and the widest range of practical experience. In his ex- 
tensive Norman Street establishment he carries a heavy and com- 
prehensive stock of staple and fancy groceries, including the choic- 
est of teas and colTees,puie sugars, spices and condiments, all far- 
inaceous products, and the most desirable stock of canned goods 
in Boston. This is demonstrated by reference to the brands, being 
those only of old established responsible packers. Messrs. Brock- 
w.ay & Co. are direct receivers of country produce, including choic- 
est creamery butter, high gr,ade cheese, strictly fresh eggs, and 
choice cured hams, b,acon, etc. So great became the demand for 
the firm's superior lines of groceries and produce that to meet it 
Mr. Brockway in 1879 opened a large retail branch at No. 350 
Broadway, Chelsea, and in 1885, a still more extensive establish- 
ment in Harvard Square, Brookline. Both places are under able 
management, and afford to the residents of those sections, unri- 
valled and duly appreciated opportunities tor the purchase of the 
best and purest food products in the market. Mr. Brockway's 
laudable ambition is to excel in quality and reasonable prices, and 
his heavy and constantly growing trade all over New England 
shows how ably and satisfactorily he is purveying to the wants of 
the public. 



JL. HAMMETT, Dealer in School Furniture and Scliool Ap- 
paratus, No. 24 Cornhill.— Mr. Hammett established this 
I business twenty-four years ago in Brattle Street, and 
eventually in 1871 removed to his present convenient prem- 
ises. He occupies a commodious five-story building and two 
floors of the adjacent warehouse. These are completely stocked 
with a well selected and valuable .assortment of school furniture 
and apparatus, blackboards, maps, charts, globes, slates and 
school supplies, also Bradley's kindergarten gifts and occupation 
m.aterial. He handles only the finest and most reliable gr.ades of 
goods, while his prices in all cases are as reasonable ,as those of 
any other first-class house in the trade. The businftss is both 
wliolesale and retail, extending not only throughout all sections 
of the United States and Canada, but also to Turkey, China, In- 
dia, Japan, Ceylon and S,andwich Islands, in which countries Mr. 
Hammett supplies a number of missionary stations. Mr. Ham- 
mett is the New England agent for the Albemarle Sl.ate Pencil 
Company, Va., and the Hyatt Slate Company, Bethlehem, Penna., 
manufacturers of superior school slates and slate black-boards. 
The proprietor is a native of Rhode Island, but has resided in 
Boston for the last twenty-seven years. There is no better author- 
ity on school furniture and supplies than Mr. Hammett, and- those 
of our readers who enter into business relations with him, can 
always rely on securing advantages in goods and prices not ob- 
tainable elsewhere. Mr. Hammett issues annually a very superior 
illustrated catalogue and price list of school furniture and appa- 
ratus. 

PATTERSON <Si LAVENDER, Manufacturers of Show Cases, 
Counters, Desks, Etc., Nos. 43 and 45 Cornhill Street.— The 
most justly celebrated manufacturers in the United States 
of high class show cases, store and office counters, desks, 
and fixtures are Messrs. Patterson & Lavender. The extensive 
business conducted here is very old established, having been 
founded upwards of thirty yearsagoby the present proprietors, Mr. 
J. Patterson and Mr. S. Lavender. They early developed an active 
trade, since developed to proportions of great magnitude, and 
bring to bear special qualifications including marked skill and 
originality: vast practical experience, coupled with perfect facil- 
ities and influential connections. Their factory is situated in 
Roxbury, and is of large size, equipped with the latest improved 
machinery and appliances, and where an average force of from 
twenty to thirty skilled cabinet-makers are steadily employed. 
The firm are the designers and manufacturers of the most stylish 
and elaborate show cases in the market, among the woods used 
being black walnut, mahogany, cherry, ebony, rosewood, etc., etc. 
All work is guaranteed, while the trimmings, plating, glass, etc., 
are strictly first-class. They also make all popular styles of 
counters, desks and fixtures, and enjoy the perfect facilities, that 
enable them to promptly fill the largest and most difficult orders 
for the fitting up of stores and offices. Many of the finest estab- 
lishments in Washington and Tremont Streets have secured their 
outfit here, while their customers are found in every cityand 
town throughout New England and here and there all over the 
United States. The firm occupy an entire five-story and basement 
building, 30x40 feet in dimensions, as warerooms and office. 

LBEEBE & CO., Cotton, No. 9 Merchants Row.— This busi- 
ness was established forty years ago by Mr. L. Beebe who 
J eventually .admitted his sons Messrs. Cyrus G. and Fred- 
eric Beebe into partnership, the firm being known by 
the style and title of L. Beebe & Co. In 1884 Mr. L. Beebe, the 
founder died after an honorable and successful career, the business, 
however, is still conducted by his sons under the old firm name. 
Both partners are recognized authorities relative to the qualities 
and grades of all kinds of cotton and a test by them is always suffi- 
cient to definitely determine the value of any particular lot. They 
buy largely in the South, and make liberal advances on con- 
signments, and at the same time always secure the highest market 
quotations, while the firm have ever been noted for their prompt- 
ness in making returns. Messrs. L. Beebe & Co. own and oper.ate 
cotton mills in Taunton and Fall River, Mass., where they manu- 
facture print cloths. They supply several of the Largest New Eng- 
land mills with cotton. Both Messrs. Cyrus <;. and Fred K. Beebe 
are natives of Boston. 



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J WHITNEY BEALS, Jr., Timber Land Investments, No. 4 
Post Office Square, Room No. 15.— The great and Rrowing 
^ importance of tlie product of tlie forest, as a commercial 
factor, together with the steady and materially increasing 
demand therefor, imparts to the timber lands of the United States 
a peculiar interest. Especially so as a field of financial invest- 
ment. And right here it may be observed, that there are few, if 
any, features of realty tliat offer more certain or substantial re- 
turns for capital ; and none, toward which the shrewd and saga- 
cious investor is so steadily leaning, as to timber lands located in 
the south and southwest. The sales of Alabama and Mississippi 
timber lands in Boston are conducted on an extensive scale, while 
the transactions afford evidence of constant and notable increase 
annually ; and in this connection special mention ought here to 
made of J. Whitney Beals, Jr., with office at No. 4 Post Office Square 
(Room No. 15), who carries an extensive and very desirable line of 
investment property of the kind referred to, and none engaged 
in this particular sphere of activity in tliis city is more widely 
or honorably known, or enjoys a larger measure of public favor and 
confidence. Mr. Beals, who also has a branch office in Chicago, 
(No. 195 La Salle Street,) is agent for and dealer in Alabama and 
Mississippi timber lands of which he has for sale upwards of 500,- 
OOO acres ; and does a large and active business, numbering among 
his clientage some of the most solid citizens in the community. 
He has been engaged in this line some three years, and by strict 
integrity, energy and sagacity has built up the excellent patronage 
he deservedly enjoys. Mr. Beals, who is a young man, and a na- 
tive of this city, is well and favorably known alike, in commercial 
and social life, and is a member of the old Beals' family, whose 
name has long been associated with the Boston Post. 

BANGS & HORTON, Agents for the Lehigh and Wilkes-barre 
Coal Co., Maryland Coal Co., and Despard Gas Coal Co., No. 
60 Cougress Street, Howe Building.— The excellent position 
of Boston as regards ecouomical transportation facilities, 
render it the most convenient distributing point in New England, 
for that Important element in the commercial and manufacturing 
greatness of the country— coal. In this connection special refer- 
ence is made to the old established and reliable firm of Messrs. 
Bangs & Horton, No 60 Congress Street, agents for the Lehigh 
and Wilkes-barre Coal C:o.,Maryland Coal Co.. and the Despard Gas 
Coal Co. This agency was established a quarter of a century 
ago by Messrs. Geo. P. Bangs & Chas P. Horton: the present 
members of the firm being George P. Bangs, Charles P. Horton 
and Bobt. C. Heaton. The firm have superior facilities for the 
prompt delivery of the above-named companies' coals in cargo lots, 
shipments being made direct from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Port 
Johnston, etc. They also have packets at Mystic Wharf, Charles- 
town, and Boston and Maine Wharf, Somerville, with facilities for 
storage and the delivery of coal in car load lots or greater quanti- 
ties to manufacturers and dealers on the lines of the eastern and 
western and Lowell divisions of the Boston and Maine railroad. 
The prices quoted are always regulated by the market. All coals 
handled by Messrs. Bangs & Horton are extremely rich in the ele- 
ments producing the most intense heat andcomplete combustion,and 
are universally recognized as of very superior quality, beinggreat 
favorites with manufacturers, railroad companies and dealers. They 
are guaranteed to maintain in every respect the highest standard of 
excellence as regards care in their preparation for the market, com- 
jug as they do from some of the best equipped collieries in America. 
Messrs. Bangs & Horton are natives of Boston, while Mr. Heaton 
was born in Philadelphia. The partners are highly regarded in 
business circles for their promptness and integrity, and their pat- 
ronage now extends throughout the principal cities of New Eng- 
land. 

SIMPSON BROTHERS. Asphalt Floors, Concrete Walks and 
Driveways; Offices, No. 22 Milk Street.— The famous Swiss 
and French rock asphalts have manifested their superiority 
to all other materials for smooth, hard, dry, fire and water 
proof floors and linings that have rapidly come into use all 
over the United States, and to a very great extent in Boston and 
New England, where the public is so appreciative of the most im- 
proved and reliable materials and methods. It was in 1870 that 
Messrs. Frederick and James Simpson commenced the importation 



and application of Neuchatel and Seyssel rock asphalt. They 
early developed a lively trade, as the merits of these natural as- 
phalts became known to owners, architects and buihlers, and have 
filled large orders for leading citizens and corporations all over 
Boston and New England. They carry a heavy stock of the pure 
rock asphalt specially intended for their trade, and employ up- 
ward of forty skilled hands in the work of preparation and appli- 
cation. It is specially popular for the floors of basements, kitch- 
ens, laundries, stables, water-closets, dwelling-houses, cellars, 
breweries, manufactories, warehouses, hospitals, courtyards, 
walks, driveways, etc ,— in fact any and every place where a hard, 
smooth, clean, dry, fire and water proof, odorless and durable cov- 
ering is required in basement or upper stories, laid either ovev 
cement, concrete, brick or wood, in one sheet without seams; it is 
also the best coating for roofs. As a sanitary agent nothing is so 
valuable as this impervious rock asphalt, which permanently 
excludes all d.ampness, odors, malarious exhalations and ver- 
min. As a material for public and private driveways, walks, 
plazas, squares, etc., it is unquestionably far superior to any other 
article in the world, and has long been so recognized by architects 
and engineers. The firm use only the natural rock asphalt, free 
flom coal tar and all artificial substances ; it hardens immedi- 
ately, and is ready for use within a few hours after being laid. 
Messrs. Simpson Brothers are prepared to promptly estimate for 
the covering of any surface, large or small, and refer to work 
done in the largest buildings in Boston, including Institute of 
Technology, Wells Memorial Institute, Harvard Medical School, 
Bay State and Standard Sugar Refineries, Masonic Temple, Young's 
Hotel, Mutual Insurance Building, United States Hotel, Boston Ad- 
vertiser Building,and many others toonumerous to mention. Work 
has also been done for F. L. Ames, H. H. Hunnewell, and others. 
Those contemplating building operations or repairs should investi- 
gate the superiority of natural rock .asphalt, samples of which will 
be shown and prices quoted at the firm's office, No. 22 Milk Street, 
while work in use can be readily seen in almost every quarter of 
the city. The Messrs. Simpson are members of the Master 
Builders' Exchange, and of the Mechanics' Exchange. 

COLLINS & CO., Real Estate Agents and Agents for the Florida 
Fruit and Investment Comp,any, No. 15 Kilby Street.— The 
consumption of fruit grows ai)ace with the ever increasing 
population, and the demand for southern fruit in all parts of 
the country has developed fruit growing into a very profitable busi- 
ness, and opens the way for the lucrative investment of capital. 
Facilities for this are afforded by the Florida Fruit and Investment 
Company, of Mayfleld, Alachua County, Florida, through its 
agents, Messrs. Collins & Co., the well known real estate firm of 
No. 15 Kilby Street, Boston. This company was incorporated un- 
der the laws of New Hampshire, and its president is Dr. J. A. Mc- 
Donald, No. 116 Main Street, Charlestown, Mass., and the treasurer 
is Mr. G. H. Sutherland, of Gainesville, Florida. The company has 
a capital of $100,000. and its purpose is to raise on a scientific plan, 
fruits for which Florida has become famous. They have 640 acres 
of land at Mayfleld, five miles northwest of Gainesville, and 
through this the line of the Florida, Savannah and Western Kail- 
road runs. The company's land is very fertile, and fertilizers of 
only known merit are used, and a class of fruits are to be raised, 
such as oranges, peaches, pears, plumbs, persimmons, grapes, etc- 
as will mature in rapid succession so as to secure continuous crops 
of fruits from early spring until the oranges are marketed in 
November, December and January. The cost of maturing an acre 
of trees to four years old and having everything in the best work- 
ing condition is $200, and the value of each acre will then be $1,000. 
while in ten years' time the value will be 82,000, thus paying lOO 
per cent, yearly on the outlay. Fifty-thousand fruit trees have 
already been planted. The company's stock is issued at a 
par value of $50 per share, the first payment being $20, the 
balance being spread over two or three years. A profitable 
field of enterprise is here offered to investors, who can obtain the 
most detailed information from Messrs. Collins & Co. They con 
duct a general real estate business, buying and selling, exchanging 
and leasing properties in town and country, collecting rents, nego- 
tiating loans, and taking management of estates. Mr. W. P. Col" 
lins, the head of the firm, is a native of New York State and has 
resided in Boston for the past eighteen years. 



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WS. HIXON & CO., Manufacturers of Soapstone, No. 14 
Marshall Street.— The old soapstone works of W. S. 
J Hixon & Co., manufacturers of soapstone articles of 
every description, has long maintained a hold on pop- 
ular favor throughout the country, owing to tlie general excel- 
lence of its productions. The goods turned out in this widely 
known concern are of a very superior character, being all hand 
m.ade and first-class in everyfeatureof merit— in design, workman- 
sliip, finish and durability— and, as a consequence, are in steady 
and extensive demand in the trade all over tlie United States. 
Tliis thriving enterprise was established in 1860 by 0. W. Gushing 
& Co., who conducted it up to about five yeai s ago, wlien they were 
succeeded by the piesent piopuetois who hne snice carriedon 




the business with uninterrupted success. The works and ware- 
rooms occupy commodious and well equipped premises, ample 
manufacturing and storage facilities being at hand, while sixteen 
skilled workmen are employed. The productions include sinks 
and wash trays, register and funnel stones, griddles, fire places 
and soapstone stoves : also soapstone slabs and in short, every- 
thing that can be manufactured from soapstone, a large and first- 
class assortment being constantly carried on hand, and, alto- 
gether, the firm does a flourishing Inisiness. Mr. Hixon, who Is the 
sole proprietor, was born in New York State, and has resided In this 
city some twenty-two years. He is a man of experience, energy 
and skill in this line, and is thoroughly conversant with the bus! 
ness in all its branches. 

JOSEPH W. HOMER, Real Estate Broker, No27 KllbyStreet, 
and No. 24 Exchange Place.— Among the young representative 
real estate and insurance brokers in this community, there 
are none more prominent than Mr. ,Joseph W. Homer, who is 
well-known in business circles, and enjoys a wide reputation for 
promptness .and reliability In his transactions. He has been est.ab- 
lishedin the business the past seven years, and has a large influential 
connection in this city and vicinity, numbering among his clients 
many of the substantial citizens. He is familiar with the valuation 
of real estate in this section, and during his business career has 
been conspicuous as a broker in many of the operations that have 
been going on. Mr. Homer also makes a leading specialty of the 
negotiations of mortgage loans, and effects insurance In tlie lead- 
ing substantial companies at the lowest ratesof premium. He is a 
native Bostonian and a gentleman of experience, high standing and 
popularity. 

AS. MITCHELL, Auctioneer and Appraiser, Real Estate and 
Mortgages, No. 113 Devonshire Street (RoomSI).— Of the 
_ many successful real estate brokers that have come to the 
front in this city of recent years, few have been more 
fortunate i est.abllshing a reputation for integrity and reliability 
than Mr. A. S. Mitchell, who is a native and a respected resident of 
the historic town of Lexington, Mass., where he fills the office of 
constable with cftlelency. He is a gentleman of entire probity in his 
dealings, and is thoroughly conversant with everything connected 
with the handling, transfer and management of realty. Mr. 
Mitchell h.as been actively engaged in this line since 188.'!, and from 
the first he has enjoyed a very flattering measure of merited recog- 



nition, numbering among his clientele some of the solid citizens of 
Boston .and environs. Mr. Mitchell, whose office is at No. 113 
Devonshire Street (Room 51), conducts a gener.al real estate busi- 
ness, buying, selling and exchanging city and country property of 
all kinds on commission, and gives personal attention .also to the 
collection of rents and the care of estates, real estate sales at 
auction being a specialty, and loans are negotiated likewise, and 
investments judiciously placed, while Insurance Is effected In first- 
class fire companies .at the lowest rates compatible with absolute 
security. 

GEO. A. KENDALL, Feathers and Mattresses, Curled Hair 
Ticking, Etc., No 14 Friend Street.— The attention that h,as 
been directed of late years to the production of mattresses 
and bedding of every description in this country has 
developed the fact that American skill and inventive genius are 
quite as successful in this branch of enterprise as they have proved 
in many others. Of the marked improvement made In this depart- 
ment of Industrial .activity no more convincing proof is to be found 
in the city of Boston than by visiting the esUibllshinent of Mr. 
Geo. A. Kendall, the well-known manufacturer and dealer in 
feathers and mattresses, curled hair, ticking, etc., located at No. 
14 Friend Street. The enterprising proprietor h.as been eng.aged 
in the business since 1870. .and established his present house in 
January, 1887 He occupies four floors, 30x120 feet e.acli, and pos- 
sesses the best possible facilities tor conducting the enterprise 
under the most favorable conditions and upon tlie largest scale. 
The methods of manufacture in vogue are the most enterprising 
and progressive character, resulting in the production of a class 
of specialties that are rarely equalled in this country embracing 
utility, reliability, elegance and uniform excellence. The house 
bears the nnniistak,able marksof judicious and conscientious man- 
agement, and exercises an Influence that extends f.ar beyond the 
limits of this city, Its trade being broadly distributed throughout 
New England and New York, and annually increasing in volume 
and value. A force of fifteen skilled hands contribute to the satis- 
factory operations of the hou.se, while .all the details of the business 
are conducted under the personal supervision of the proprietor, 
thus Insuring to the trade only such products as will withstand 
the most critical tests, both as regards materials used in their 
construction and the workmanship employed. A splendid stock 
is constantly carried, and orders are filled with promptness and 
care in all cases. Mr. Kend.all is a native of Boston, a pr.actic.al 
leader In his line of trade, and occupying a position in the busi- 
ness circles of this city only accorded to those whose operations 
are conducted on the enduring principles of equity and honorable 
dealings. 

BEALS & CO.. Wholesale Dealers and Exporters of All Kindsof 
Leather Remnants, and Manufacturers of Leather Shoe Laces 
and Sheep Skins: Boston Oftice: Nos. 31 and33.?outh Street.— 
Among the many flourishing industries developed by the v.ost 
growth of the boot and shoe interests In the United States during 
the past quarter of a century, not the least important is the 
branch devoted to the production of leather shoe laces and 
kindred articles for the trade. Engaged in this line are some 
really noteworthy firms, the oldest and Largest of which Is that of 
Beals & Co., wholesale dealers In all kindsof leather remnants, 
and manufacturers of leather shoe laces, whose Boston office and 
salesroom are located at Nos. 31 and 33 South Street, with factory 
within ten miles from Boston, and whose business extends through- 
out the entire country This enterprising and widely known firm 
was established twenty years .ago, and they operate a commodious, 
well equipped factory, and employ a large force of hands, and 
in 1873 opened an oflice in thisclty, on Federal Street, whence they 
subsequently moved to No. 59 South Street, occupying the present 
commodious quarters since 1885. They occupy here a 30x100 foot 
floor and carry constantly on hand an extensive and first-class as- 
sortment of leather remnants and shoe laces ; all orders being 
promptly and reliably attended to, and the trade of the firm, which 
extends to all parts of the United States, besides h.aving a large ex- 
port trade to foreign countries, is large and active. Messrs. J. M. 
Beals and, J. O. Guild, who compose the firm, are both men of energy 
enterprise and practical skill in this line, and are thoroughly con- 
versant with the wants of the trade. 



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AM. BATES, Dealer in Carriages, Harness and Sleiglis 
Kos. 25 and '27 Haverhill Street.— The leading head- 
quarters in Boston for carriages, harness, sleighs, 
blankets, and robes of all kinds, is the establisliment of 
Mr. A. M. Bates. This is one of the widely known and justly 
famous business houses that have added so much to the name and 
fame of this city, both at home and abroad, as a great commercial 
centre. It has been in successful operation since 18152, and well 
deserves the title of "leader of the trade. ' Mr. Bates deals very 
extensively at boti wholesale and retail, in both new and second- 
hand carriages and kindred articles, and also sells on commission. 
His large double building, four stories high and 60x80 feet in 
dimensions, is completely filled at all times with a class of vehicles 
suited to the requiremeuts of all sorts and conditions of buyers. 
A general line of Hne carriages for pleasure and family use is 
noticed, besides sleighs of new and original designs; carriages in 
many styles, shapes and patterns, from an ordinary no-top road 
wagon to an elegantly finished coach, besides coupes, victorias, 
landaus, phaetons, rockaways, etc., while a leading specialty is 
made of the Tindiin spring carriages, which are unexcelled in this 
or any other mai-ket for strength, lightness, durability, ease of 
draft and elegance of finish. The line of harness is also worthy 
of the attention of close and careful buyers, being kept up to the 
highest standard of excellence, and are placed upon the market 
at prices which are safe from successful competition. The trade 
of this responsible house is large and influential not only through- 
out the entire United States, but also in Africa, South America 
and other foreign countries. Mr. Bates is a native of Sutton, Mass. 

JOHN N. ROBERTS, Collateral Banking Rooms, No. 666 Wash- 
ington Street.— One of the prominent and well-known city 
business men in his important branch of commercial activ- 
ity is Mr. John N. Roberts, proprietorof the collateral bank- 
ing rooms at No. 666 Washington Street. Mr. Roberts has been 
engaged in his present enterprise since 1868, eleven years at the 
present site— and in the interval has reared what may well be 
termed a representative business in his line. The commodious 
and attractive business offices are fitted up in bank style and 
all requisite facilities are supplied for the advantageous 
prosecution of the enterprise. A general collateral banking 
business is done, money being advanced upon bonds, mortgages 
and other collateral security, funds are also placed by the same 
methods, care being exercised to insure the customer a safe as 
well as profitable investment. Mr. Roberts by his sound financial 
Judgment and upright, honorable dealing has won the substantial 
regard of local capitalists and investors generally and secured a 
clientele which distinguishes him as one of the foremost exponents 
of his line of business in his native town. 

HARRISON ALDRICH &C0.. Wholesalers and Jobbers in Eggs. 
Butter and Cheese, Nos. 208 State and 47 Commerce Streets. 
—Among the most enterprising and popular commission 
merchants and wholesale dealers in eggs, butter and 
cheese in this city is the firm of Messrs. Harrison Aldrich & Co. 
The business was originally established in 1879 by Mr. Harrison 
Aldrich, and in 1887 Mr. Charles B. Osgood was admitted to part- 
nership. The business premises comprise a fine six-story building, 
25x100 feet in dimensions, fronting on both State and Commerce 
Streets, supplied with every modern facility for the preservation 
of perishable articles and for the convenient handling of the large 
and valuable stock here carried. This firm are possessed of every 
qualification for the business, including vast practical experience, 
influential connections and perfected facilities. Consignments of 
goods are arriving daily from the dairies of Vermont and the best 
producing sections of New England, and the most substantial in- 
ducements are offered to shippers, including quick sales at highest 
rates and prompt returns. It has become fully recognized among 
shippers, jobbers and leading retailers that this flrm deliver the 
choicest butter, cheese and eggs in prime condition, and readily 
command the highest market prices. Their egg department is 
well worth a visit, where many egg-chandlers are constantly em- 
ployed in examining and assorting eggs. The credit of the house 
is Al in the trade, ample capital being employed therein. Mr. 
Aldrich is a native of Vermont, while Mr. Osgood was born in 
Boston, Mass. 



CHAS. E. KAMES, Druggist and Apothecary, No. 396 Hanover 
Street.— The popular establishment of Mr. Chas. E. Eames, 
the well-known druggist and apothecary is probably the 
oldest of the kind in the city and as we have been reliably 
informed its foundation dates back over a hundred years. It has 
been under the control of Mr. Eames since 1871 and conducted 
hy him with rare tact, skill and ability. The store is of ample 
dimensions and the interior fittings and fixtures are of a character 
which reflects the greatest credit upon the taste of the proprietor. 
Drugs and chemicals and proprietary preparations of the highest 
standard quality are kept in stock also a great variety of toilet 
articles and all the specialties pertaining to the business. Mr. 
Eames is a practical apothecary and peculiarly well qualified 
to compound and disjiense medicines and exercises that intelligent 
care necessary and requisite in this special department. He em- 
ploys two skilled assistants who are under his immediate super- 
vision and every attention is given to filling physicians' prescrip- 
tions and difficult formulas. A native of Wakefield in this state 
Mr. Eames has lived in Boston many years and is held in high esti- 
mation in professional and social circles as an accomplished drug- 
gist and apothecary, and as a useful popular citizen. 

EF. RITZ, Photographic Artist, No. 58 Temple Place.— In no 
department of the arts are the improvements of the past 
quarter century so conspicuous as in photography and one 
need only contrast the exquisite productions of our mod- 
ern artists with the crude portraiture in vogue even twenty years 
since to fully comprehend the great progress that has been made 
in this direction. In this connection as a leading and representa- 
tive Boston photo-artist is mentioned the gentleman whose name 
appears in the caption of this sketch. Mr. E. F. Ritz, was born In 
Sweden, although has lived nearly all his life In this country. At an 
early age he served his time and acquired the degree of knowledge 
then attainable in his profession, and in 1866 opened a photographic 
establishment in Boston with a copartner under the flrm name of 
Ritz & Hastings, and thus continued for many years, building up 
in the meantime a reputation for superior work, second to none in 
his profession. Since 1884, Mr. Ritz lias been alone, and for a like 
period has occupied the present eligible site at No. 58 Temple 
Place. The premises consist of two floors, one fitted up in the 
most sumptuous and tasteful style, and occupied as a reception 
parlor— while above are the operating and ante-rooms. The stu- 
dio is supplied with all the newest and best improved photographic 
methods and appliances; several experienced assistants are em- 
ployed and everything pertaining to modern portraiture is exe- 
cuted in the highest degree of artistic and mechanical excellence. 
Mr. Ritz counts among his numerous patronage the high class 
town and suburban custom and has long been reflected as a lead 
ing and prominent city photo-artist whose success is but a just 
tribute to his indefatigable and able efforts in its promotion. 

BARRELLE & CO., Auctioneers, Real Estate, Collection and 
Business Agents, No. 1,57 Washington Street.— In reviewing 
the real estate and kindred interests of Boston and envi- 
rons, more than passing notice should be given the popular 
and responsible flrm of Barielle & Co., auctioneers, real estate, 
collection and business agents, who numbers among its extensive 
clientele some of the most solid citizens aad wealthy property 
owners in the community. A general real estate business is trans- 
acted, city and suburban property of every description, improved 
and unimproved, being handled on commission, while rents are 
collected and est.ates judiciously managed also; special attention 
being given sales at auction, leasing and business chances. Loans 
are effected and mortgages negotiated likewise, while investments 
are desirably placed also; In short, everything appertaining to 
the purchase, sale and transfer of realty is attended to in the most 
reliable and satisfactory manner. Mr. T. W. Barrelle, who is the 
sole member, is a gentleman of middle age, and a native of this 
state, having his residence now at South Framingham. He Is a 
capable and experienced attorney-at-law and was formerly en- 
gaged in the practice of law in Iowa. Returning to Boston In 1873, 
he established himself in his profession here, and devoted his at- 
tention exclusively to the same for about three years, when he 
added the real estate business in which he has been signally suc- 
cessful from the first. 



THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



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AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Manufacturers 
of the Allen Fertilizer and Beddine, Robert C. Wiggin, 
General Agent, No. 19 Exchange Place.— A representative 
house in Boston, engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers, 
etc., is that known as American Manufacturing Company, whose 
office is located at No. 19 Exchange Place. This business was es- 
tablished in 1884 by Mr. L. Allen, and eventually was duly incor- 
porated in 1885 with a capital stock of $200,000. The works of the 
company which are spacious and fully equipped with the latest 
improved machinery, apparatus and appliances, are situated at 
Westville, N. H. The company makes a specialty of manu- 
facturing the Allen fertilizer, a complete high grade fertilizer 
for all crops, also the Allen special fertilizers lor potatoes and 
corn, and Allen's top dressing and lawn dressing. They also 
deal in nitrate soda, sulphate annnonia, ammonia, muriate 
potash, dried blood, etc., at the lowest market prices, compounded 
from the very best chemicals, and prepared with the greatest 
care and with the most improved machinery. The Allen fertil- 
izer will be found to be rich in all the elements of plant food in 
an available form, and the chemical analysis .appears upon 
eacii package and the percentages of ammonia, phosphoric acid 
and potash contained in this fertilizer are derived from the very 
best sources which supply these three great requisites for satis- 
factory crops. On most farms the success of the crop depends 
largely upon the yearly use of manures, audit is of the greatest un- 
portance that the distribution should be even. This is especially 
true of a manufactured fertilizer where the small amount used 
cannot be evenly applied unless it is in good mechanical condition. 
The Allen fertilizer is in the very best condition as to fineness and 
dryness, so that it will work to the very best advantage in the 
drill. In bulk the Allen fertilizer will be found to go much farther 
than any high grade fertilizer in the market. It is a general fer- 
tilizer for all crops, and it may be used in connection with stable 
manure or alone, and will be found to be a valuable help to the 
growth of crops throughout the season, since its fertilizing ingre- 
dients are in a soluble condition and are ready to act at once, and 
continue with the growth of the plant. The Allen fertilizer con- 
tains fifteen times the amount of available plant food contained in 
one ton of fresh stable manvire. A better crop of potatoes can be 
raised on a good fertilizer than on stable manure. The crop will , 
ripen earlier, will be free from disease, and will be of better quality. 
The Allen fertilizer for potatoes will give these results, as it con- 
tains not only the ammonia and phosphoric acid but a large per- 
centage of potash. The American Manufacturing Company has 
latterly introduced '• Beddine," a very superior article for bed- 
ding in stables, for horses, cows, etc. It is cheaper than straw 
and much better, and is packed in medium sized bales of 200 
pounds each being free in the bale and not hard, hence it is as 
available as straw. Beddine makes a soft and elastic bed, giving 
an easy bed to horses with sore feet. It absorbs all urine and will 
not burn, hence it is a safeguard against fire. When thoroughly 
used up it becomes a valuable fertilizer, containing from three to 
eight per cent, ammonia, making it worth to the farmer at least 
$10.00 per ton. The officers of this reliable company are highly 
esteemed in trade circles for their enterprise, energy and just 
methods, and their patronage now extends throughout the entire 
eastern and middle states, owing to the superiority, reliability and 
excellence of their productions, which are general favorites with 
farmers wherever introduced. 

BRUNSWICK-BALKECOLLENDER CO., Manufacturers of 
Billiard and Pool Tables, Nos.44 to 48 Hanover Street.— The 
world-wide renowned concern of the Brunswick-Balke-Col- 
lender Co. .which manufactures more billiard and pool tables 
than any other establishment on the face of the globe, had its be- 
ginning in 1860 at Cincmnati, when it was established by Brunswick 
Brothers. The firm afterwards became J. M. Brunswick & Co., and 
in 1872 this firm amalgamated with .Julius Balke of Cincinnati, who 
had then been in the business some years. The style was then 
changed to J. M. Brunswick & Balke Co. In the same year the con- 
cern consolidated with the Collender Manufacturing Co., of New- 
York, and then the present title of the Brunswick Balke-CoUender 
Co. was adopted. The company was incorporated in 1882 under the 
laws of Ohio with a capital stock of $1,500,000. Mr. John M. Bruns- 
wick died In 1886 at Cincinnati, and his interest in the business is 



represented by Mr. Ben ai. Brunswick. Since Mr. Pirunswick's 
death, Mr. H. W. Collender, of New York, has been the president, 
and Mr. A. F. Troescher, of New York, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The directors are Messrs. M. Bensinger and Leo Schmidt, ot 
Chicago. The company have factories in New York, Cincinnati, 
Chicago, St. Louis and San Fr,1ncisco, and branch establishments 
in Boston and all the principal cities in the country. They maim- 
facture billiard and pool tables, billiard merchandise of every de- 
scription, saloon fixtures and beer coolers, ten-pin alleys, office, 
bank and drug store fixtures, mirrors, bar tables, chairs, etc., in 
the production of which many hundreds of workmen are employed. 
The Boston branch was founded in 1882 and has proved eminently 
successful. The premises occupied here comprise a fine office 
and show room 40x60 feet in dimensions, and here a splendid 
showing is made of samples of tlie manufactures of the company. 
Through this branch the whole of the New England trade is con- 
trolled and the business is under the efficient management of Mr. 
Henry Beeny, Jr., who is a native of New York City. 

GA. WALKER MACHINE COMPANY, Manufacturers oC 
Band, Jig and Circular Saw Machinery. Cabinet Bench 
Vises. Etc., No. 35 Sudbury Street.— This concern was 
founded twenty-five years ago by the late Mr. G. A. 
Walker, and are making marked advances in the manu- 
facture of band, jig and circular machinery, cabinet bench 
vises, etc. Upon his decease in July. 1888. he was succeeded by the 
following: Messrs. I. S. Craig. S. K. Gould. J. P. Craig, C. G. Smith, 
and C. W. Brown, gentlemen who had previously carried on the 
work of manufacturing in Mr. Walker's shops, and who had 
become recognized authorities in every detail of pianoforte and 
general machinest work. They began operations as the G. A. 
Walker Machine Company, in September, 1888. and have retained 
the patronage and h ide-spread connections of the old concern. 
They have a first-class shop on Sudbury Street. 40.x60feet in dimen- 
sions, well equipped with lathes and other machinery, run by steam 
power, and where they carry in stock and are prepared to promptly 
manufacture to special order all styles and sizes of the most im- 
proved .and reliable hand, jig and circular saw machines. The 
reputation of the Walker sawing machinery is too well known to 
require comment here. They are not only in use in the leading 
and largest piano-forte shops ot New England, but have been in- 
troduced all over the United States, as also the improved cabinet 
bench vises. The company also executes general machine work 
of every description and is the representative in its line. Mr. 
Craig is a native of New Hampshire, Mr. Gould was born in Bos- 
ton, Mr. J. P. Craig in New Hampshire, Mr. Smith in Waltham, 
and Mr. Brown in New Hampshire, and they are all able and 
respected business men. 

LB. GATCOMB & CO.. Manufacturers of Banjos and Guitars, 
Music Publishers. Etc., No. 30 Hanover Street.— Very 
marked improvement has been effected in banjos of recent 
years, a degree of excellence akin to perfection having 
been attained by L. B. Gatcomb & Co.. manufacturer of banjos and 
guitars. The productions of this firm are articles of exceptional 
merit, being Al in every respect— in fullness and sweetness of tone, 
beauty of design, construction and finish— and for general excel- 
lence are unsurpassed by any instruments of the kind produced 
to-day in this country, as is amply attested by the steady and in- 
creasing demand that has grown up for them all over the United 
States. This enterpriping and widely known firm was established 
about five years ago, and the positive and permanent success that 
attended the venture from the start abundantly attests the super- 
iority of the instruments manufactured as well as the energy and 
ability displayed in the management of the business. The prem- 
ises occupied, including neat office, salesroom and factory, are 
commodious and well equipped in all respects, while eight or 
more expert hands are employed. The firm also publish and deal 
quite extensively in music and general musical merchandise, and 
are prepared to furnish anything in this line in the most prompt 
and satisfactory manner at lowest rates. Lessons are given on the 
banjo, guitar, etc.. by such competent and experienced instructors 
as Messrs. B. E. Shattuck and A. A. Babb; biinjos and banjo in- 
struction being specialties and their goods have always given 
satisfaction to customers. 



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LABaN heath & CO., Importers & Manufacturing Opticians, 
No. 48 Hanover Street, Room 25.— One of the most valuable 
specialties liere manufactured is Heath's patent adjustable 
microscope, designed for tlie use of banlcers, botanists, miner- 
alogists, geologists, physicians, jewelers, miners, mechanics and 
otliers. This microscope has two double convex lenses, 1% inches in 
diameter, embracing a very large Held of vision ; handsomely nickel 
plated and embossed and having the patent adjustment of focus 
which admits of use at any angle. They are substantially built, 
neat in design, and e.asy of comprehension ; they can always be at 
hand and ready for immediate use ; their great simplicity prevent- 
ing them being put out of order except by extreme violence. 
They are admirably adapted for examining bank notes, engrav- 
ings, photographs, minerals, or any object wliere a high power is 
not required. The focus is easily adjusted to any point or angle, 
by simply opening or closing tlie frame. As an aid in detecting 
counterfeit money tliese microscopes are peculiarly adapted ; the 
lenses being of the correct power for tliat purpose, and the 
mechanism of tiie frames is such as to make tiiem exceedingly con- 
venient to use. The Practical Microscope, or No. 14, has two 
double convex lenses, each 1% inches in diameter, giving a large, 
clear field of vision, and magnifying 125 times. This microscope is 
intended to accommodate that large class of people who are de- 
sirous of possessing an instrument having a wide range of vision, 
easily managed, of good reliable power, and iit a moderate price. 
It will be found very useful in the various branches of trade and 
agriculture, in determining the qu,ality and composition of various 
articles, and detecting adulteration, while in solving the practical 
day wants of society this microscope is unrivalled. The Botanical 
Microscope, No. 16, lor botanists, mineralogists, geologists, physi- 
cians, jewelers and others, magnifies 20O times, and meets a want 
long felt by that large class of investigators who wish to possess a 
really good and reliable microscope at a moderate price. This in- 
strument has two double convex lenses, 1 5-16 inches in diameter, 
admitting of wide .application. Its portability admits of being car- 
ried in the pocket, and the botanist will find it an indispensable 
companion. The Vest Pocket Microscope, No. 18, meets a growing 
demand for a good pocket microscope, of high power, and afford- 
ing a large field of vision. It embraces all the qualities of a flrst- 
class microscope, and is simply invaluable to handlers of cloth and 
other text.le fabrics, being regarded as the best linen prover in the 
market. The Bankers' Microscope, No. 24, is used lor examining 
banl{ notes, engravings, photographs, etc. A great feature of tlris 
microscope is the large size of the lenses, giving a field of vision 
covering nearly the whole face of a bank note. It is also a very 
useful ornament for the parlor table, for exanuning photographs, 
engravings, paintings, etc. This firm are also especially well 
known as publishers of '• Heath's Infallible Government Counter, 
feit Detector at Sight," twenty-five years on the market and issued 
by authority from the U. S. Treasury Department, and the only re- 
liable text-book for the student who desires to become an expert in 
the art of detecting, at sight, counterfeit bank and treasury notes. 
A new set of plates, of both United States and National bank notes, 
from the original dies engraved at tlie United States Treasury De- 
partment, have been made expressly for this work. It is recog- 
nized as the most elegant and complete work of the kind ever be- 
fore offered to the world. Mr. Heath, the active member of the 
firm and moving spirit of this enterprise, eminent as an author, in- 
ventor and manufacturing optician, was born in the state of New 
Hampsliire. 

ROBERT M. DIAZ & CO., Importers and Wholesale Dealers 
in Cutlery and Fancy Hardware, No. 292 Washington 
Street.— The leading headquarters in this city for cutlery 
and fancy hardware is the establishment of Messrs. Robert 
M. Diaz & Co. This firm ■are widely prominent as wholesale deal 
ers and extensive importers of this class of goods, and have been 
established in the business here since 1882. They occupy spacious 
and attractive quarters in the very heart of the city, and possess 
unequalled facilities for conducting the business under the most 
favorable auspices. The firm is given a prestige in this special 
line of trade as the New England agents for the following cele- 
brated manufacturing concerns, viz: Ulster Knife Company. 
American pocket knives; J. Wlss & Son, shears, dental and tin- 
ners' snips, tailors' paper and pruning shears, straight and bent 



trimmers, ladies' and pocket scissors ; Jos. Barnard & Sons, pocket 
knives and scissors; Ben]. F. Badger, genuine Emerson razor 
strops; Medford Fancy Goods Company, dog collars; J. Russell 
Cutlery Company, table cutlery, etc. ; Tuck Manufacturing Com- 
pany, fine steel tools, knives and tempered springs ; Rogers Bros. 
Al silver plated ware; and, in addition to these goods, the firm 
also carry a full and complete line of Jona, Crookes & Son's pocket 
knives; Geo. Wostentohn & Son's and Joseph Rodgers & Son's 
pocket knives, razors, etc.; Wade & Butcher's, Frederick Rey- 
nolds' and Bengal razors, Engstrom's Swedish razors and hunting 
knives, and Robert Murphy's corkscrews and steel goods. The 
razors carried are of tlie firm's own importation, each of which is 
thoroughly tested before being sent out, and are fully warr,anted, 
besides barbers' shears and strops, toilet clippers, and all kinds of 
cutlery and fancy hardware, and a splendid line of dog collars. 
Fine goods are handled exclusively. The trade is immense and 
infiuential throughout New England and the west. Mr. Diaz, tlie 
active member of the firm, was born in Plymouth, Mass., was 
trained In tills line of business as a clerk for Messrs. Bradford & 
Anthony for a period of eighteen years. 

HINCKLEY BROS. & CO., Cordage, Chains, Anchors, Chand- 
lery and Stores, Nos. 56, 58 and 60 Commercial Street.— One 
of the oldest established and representative houses in 
Boston, extensively engaged in the sale of ship chandlery 
and stores, is that of Messrs. Hinckley Bros. & Co., whose office 
and store are located at Nos. 66 to 60 Commercial Street. This 
business was established in 1839 by Howland, Hinckley & Co., who 
were succeeded in 1866 by the present firm of Hinckley Bros. & Co. 
The copartners, Messrs. Gnstavus Ryder and S. B. and D. F. Hinck- 
ley have had great experience, and possess a thorough knowledge 
of the ship chandlery trade and the requirements of captains and 
ship owners. They have a well equipped oar factory at Claire, N. 
Y., where they employ forty skilled workmen. The Boston ware- 
house is a spacious four-story building 25x100 feet in area, fully 
supplied with every appliance and facility for the successful con- 
duct of their steadily increasing business. Messrs. Hinckley Bros. 
& Co. deal largely in chandlery and stores, cordage, cliains, 
anchors, oakum, duck, wire rope, boats and skiffs, asli and spruce 
oars and sculls and English sheathing felt. They are agents in 
Boston for the Mount Vernon Cotton duck, Suffolk Cordage Com- 
pany and the Brorierick Bascome Manufacturing Company, St. 
Louis, (wire rope), and are part owners of several vessels, trading 
to the New England ports and all over the world. The firm 
handle only the best grades of ship chandlery and stores, and fill 
orders promptly at the lowest possible prices. Mr. S. B. Hinckley 
was born in Cape Cod, Mr. D. F. Hinckley in Boston, and Mr. 
Ryder in Chatham, M.ass. Tlie partners are popular members of 
the Vessels Owners' Association, and are highly regarded in trade 
circles for their promptness, enterprise and Integrity, fully mer- 
iting the liberal and permanent patronage secured in this valuable 
industry. 

DYKE, SHUTE & CO., Weighers, No. 4 Central Wharf.— The 
leading representatives of the weighing trade in Boston is 
tlie firm of Messrs. Dyke, Shute & Co. The business so 
successfully prosecuted by this tlrm w,as established nearly 
fifty years ago, by Mr. J. W. Livret, and in 1868 Mr. George E. 
Dyke became a member of the firm of Livret & Dyke, wlio were 
succeeded by the present firm in 1882. The members of this firm 
all bring special qu<alifications to bear upon the man,agement, and 
have established wide, and influential connections on change and 
among shippers, exporters and de.alers in all descriptions of mer- 
chandise. They give steady employment to a large force of skilled 
assistants, and pl.ace their tariff of charges at the lowest point of 
moderation. Possessed of superior and perfected facilities, this 
firm are In a position to guarantee satisfaction in all their transac- 
tions and thorough accuracy in all weights. The copartners are 
Messrs. George E. Dyke, Henry L. Shute and George D. Dyke. 
The Messrs. Dyke, father and son, are natives of this city, while 
Mr. Shute v/as born in South Scituate, Mass. All are gentlemen 
of large experience and tried ability, and are regarded as valua- 
ble and responsible members of the field of mercantile and com- 
mercial activity named and their n.ames are synonymous with 
honorable, straightforward business matters. 



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CHARLES H. NORTH & CO., Packers and Cuiers of Pork, 
Beef, Lard, Hams, Etc., Nos. 33 and 34 Nortli Market Street. 
—All historical review of Boston's principal commercial and 
manufacturing interests would be incomplete without spe- 
cial mention of the old established and representative house of 
Messrs. Charles H. North & Co., packers and eurers of pork, beet, 
hams, bacon and manufacturers of strictly pure lard, etc., 
and whose office and salesrooms are centrally located at 
Nos. 33 and 34 North Market Street. Their slaughtering, curing 
and packing houses are among the largest and best equipped in 
tlie United States, and are situated at Medford Street, Somerville, 
Mass., covering about eight acres of ground. Here 350 men are 
employed, and the machinery is driven by steam power. The 
number of hogs slaughtered and packed daily is 1,500 to 2,000 and 
upwards. This business was established thirty years ago by 
Nortli, Merriman & Co., who conducted it till 1874, when the pres- 
ent firm succeeded to the management. The copartners, Messrs. 
Charles H. North and S. Henry Skilton, have had great practical 



feet class of work known to the trade. He is prepared to fill the 
largest orders tor ornamental and plain japanning, ornamental 
painting and bronzing of all kinds, pearl inlaying, wood enamel- 
ing, etc., etc. He numbers among his customers the leading New 
England iiianutaeturers of all kinds of machinery— ornamental 
castings, articles of metal, wood enameling, etc., etc. He offers 
substantial inducements both as to price and quality of work. 



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expeuencc a ll i ttkint, busines eou|_lei witli tn inlimite 
knowledge of the lequiiements of the home and export tiade 
Only the best stock is handled and the gieatest caie and attention 
are given in the packing house to the meat, while being prepared for 
tlie market. Messrs. Charles H. North & Co. deal extensively in 
pork, beef, lard, hams and bacon, live and dressed hogs, etc., while 
the prices quoted in all cases are always regulated by the market. 
Tlie hams and bacon of this popular house are packed and cured 
by a process which adds greatly to the flavor of the meat, and 
renders them free from all injurious substances and unpleasant 
taste of excessive salt. The trade of the flrm not only extends 
throughout all sections of the United States and Canada, but they 
likewise export largely to Great Britain, Germany. France and 
South America. Messrs. North and Skilton are popular members 
of the Chamber of Commerce, where they are highly regarded for 
their enterprise, sound business principles and integrity. Mr. 
North is a native of Vermont, while Mr. Skilton was born in Bur- 
lington, Mass. 

LEONARD L. HODGES, Ornamental and Plain Japanner, No. 
105 Haverhill Street.— In the steady advancement of the 
arts and industrial undertakings, the ornamental and fancy 
decorative effects are more sought after, and the leading 
firms engaged in the manufacture of metal goods are specially solici- 
tous tosecure the highest results of the japanners' art. In thisline 
the leading representative is Mr. Leonard L. Hodges. The present 
extensive business was founded by the firm of Hodges & Coleman 
on Sudbury Street, upwards of twenty-five years ago. Eighteen 
years ago, Mr. Hodges became sole proprietor, and the growth oJ 
his trade was so great th.at in 1«75 he removed to his present 
spacious premises, comprising four entire floors, 22x60 feet in 
dimensions. Here he employs a large force of skilled hands 
in both plain and ornamental japanning, and kindred branches of 
the trade. He has all the most perfect appliances, and follows the 
most approved methods, turning out the most elaborate and per- 



W. BERRY, Sole General Agent tor the celebrated Kranich 
& Bach's Grand, Square and Upright Pianos, and 
the Prescott Parlor Organs, No. 592 Washington Street. 
—A good piano is the great desideratum of every Ameri- 
can household. There are numerous instruments in the mar- 
ket which it is claimed, meet this want, but the palm tor gen- 
eral excellence is now freely given to the celebrated Kranich & 
Bach make, which are now superseding all others in the line of 
superior quality. Mr. H. W. Berry, of 592 Washington Street, is the 
agent for these first-class instruments. He began selling them in 
1S70 and two years later opened an establisliment of 
his own, removing in 1880 to his present commodious 
premises, 30x90 feet in dimensions, which enable him to 
display to the best advantage the magnificent stock ol 
grand, square and upright pianos of tlie Kranich & Bach 
make which he keeps on hand. He is also sole agent for 
the Prescott Parlor Organs which are constantly meet- 
ing with the highest approval from musicians who have 
tested their merits. Mr. Berry is an indefatigable 
worker and has built up a splendid trade both in pianos 
and organs throughout tlie city. He is a native of Bos- 
ton, forty-five years of age, and is higlily popular In 
business and social circles. 

ATHEWAY & CO., Ship and Freight Brokers. No. 
22 Central Wharf.- This business was establish- 
ed in 1873 by Mr. Geo. F. Hatheway, who con' 
ducted it till 1884, wlien Mr. D. W. Simpson 
became a partner. Both partners bring great practical 
experience to bear, and possess an accurate knowledge 
of all details, and at the same time are well qualified 
to represent shipping interests in the port of Boston. 
Special attention is paid to vessel business, and to the purchase 
Tnd shipment of goods on foreign orders. Messrs. Hatheway & 
Co , attend promptly and carefully to the chartering and dispatch- 
ing of vessels, load and discharge cargoes, collect freights and act 
as agents for the owners of steamships or sailing vessels. They 
likewise buy and sell steamers, sailing vessels and tugs, and carry 
on an extensive trade with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince 
Edwards' Island, New foundland, etc., in flour, produce, lumber, 
flsli and other products. The firm occupy a commodious five-story 
building, and makes advances on merchandise when required. 
Mr. Hatheway was born in St. Johns, N. B., while his partner, Mr. 
Simpson, is a native of East Boston. Both are popular members of 
the Chamber of Commerce. 



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■AZEPPA SIGN COMPANY, F. F. Applequist, Manager, No. 
15 Water Street.— For originality, beauty and variety of 
design, or tor really artistic workmanship in tlie line of 
sign and ornamental painting, none in the business in 
Boston surpass the " Mazeppa Sign Company," F. F. Applequist, 
manager. The work turned out here is Al in every feature of 
merit, while the prices prevailing are maintained at the very 
lowest figures consistent therewith, and all orders areexecuted in 
the most expeditious and excellent manner, satisfaction being 
guaranteed in every instance. This thriving enterprise was 
started in 1879 by J. L. Gannon and the present proprietor, who 
conducted it up to about one year ago, when they were succeeded 
by the present proprietor. The premises occupied as sliop, etc., 
are commodious and well equipped and halt a dozen or more 
expert hands are employed. Sign and ornamental painting of 
every description is done in the highest style of the art at short 
notice, special attention being given to hall and interior decora- 
ting. Mr. Applequist, who is sole proprietor and manager, is of 
Swedish birth but has lived in this city since early childhood. He 
is a practical and skillful workman himself, of many years' experi- 
ence. 



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ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. 



BUNKER LAUNDRY & TOWEL SUPPLY, Monroe & Conley. 
Proprietors. No. 33 Hawkins Street.— Boston is the centre of 
manufacturing and commercial indn.stries whicli charac- 
terize New England, anil here new enterprises, unique and 
useful, are continually arising and contributing to the sum total of 
the conveniences and comforts of the people. An apt illustration 
of this is furnished by the Bunker Laundry & Towel Supply con- 
cern doing business at No. 33Hawknis Street, and of which Messrs. 
Munroe & Conley are the proprietors. This enterprising aad 
prosperous house was founded in 1886 by Mr. George W. Bunl<er, 
hence its title; and in 1887 he was succeeded in the business by the 
present proprietors. Tiie business is a novel one, and is one of 
usefulness to workingmen. The firm laundry overalls and jum- 
pers and furnish one clean towel for fifteen cents per week, or a 
jumper and apron with one clean towel for ten cents per week. 
They also furnish one suit of overalls and one clean towel for 
twenty-five cents per week, or one jumper and apron, with towel, 
for twenty cents per week. The firm keep all articles in reasonable 
repair, put on buckles and buttons and sew up all rips free of charge. 
They have an excellent system for collecting and delivering, and 
one that does not interfere with the men's time or make it objection- 
able to their employers. The firm have two teams and seven hands 
In service, and a roomy laundry, equipped with the newest and 
most improved laundry ni.achinery, and provided with steam 
power. The business is conducted with energy, push and relia- 
bility, and a large trade connection has been established not only 
in Boston, but in Providence, Lynn, Hyde Park and other subur- 
ban towns. Mr. George A. Munroe is a native of New Hampshire 
and Mr. Conley was born m Maine. They are to be congratulated 
upon the success of their commercial venture 

CD. STONE & COMPANY. Grocers, Nos. 95 and 97 Chambers 
Street.— For fine groceries at moderate prices we would 
, strongly recommend tlie public to patronize the large and 
fully stocked store of Messrs. C. t). Stone & Co. Mr. Stone 
is a native of New Hampshire who early in life became connected 
with this important branch of trade, and about fifteen years ago 
embarked in business upon his own account. He was located at 
Nos. 99 to 105 Chambers Street but has recently removed to Nos. 
95 and 97, a splendid modern plate glass front store, 35x40 feet in 
dimensions, and wliich he has furnished in a bright and attractive 
manner, rendering it without exception one of the finest in the 
city, Messrs. Stone & Co. make a specialty of fresh crop te.as, 
select coffees, pure sugars, spices and condiments, the best grades 
of fancy patent flour, all kinds of farinaceous goods, green and 
dried fruits, and one of the choicest stocks of canned fruits, vege- 
tables, fish, meats, etc., in Boston. Mr. Stone handles those brands 
only which are put up by honorable and responsible packers, and 
guarantees quality. In all his immense stock, the prices compare 
favorably with those quoted elsewhere. He buys direct in large 
lots from producers, packers and importers and doing such a 
heavy trade, can put prices where they are a positive attraction 
to the public. 

FISHER & FAIRBANKS, Importers, Proprietors of Fairbanks, 
Rock Cordials, Etc., No. 19 Exchange Street— Messrs. R. 
B. Fisher and C. A. Fairbanks bring a wide range of pr.ac- 
tical experience to bear, and since they est.ablished this 
house fifteen years ago, have developed an extensive and influen 
ti.il patronage. The premises occupied comprise a spacious store 
and basement 25x100 feet in area, fully fit ted up with every appliance 
and convenience for the systematic conduct of the business. They 
also have offices in New York at No. 93 Warren Street, and in Chi- 
cago at No. 51 Wabash Avenue. Messrs. Fisher and Fairbanks are 
proprietors of the famous Fairbanks" rock cordials, and deal largely 
in imported and domestic champagnes, Renault & Co.'s Cognac 
br.andies, Geneva and Gold Seal gin, Misa and Amontillado sher- 
ries, imported and domestic bay rum, case goodsof every kind, and 
foreign and domestic cigars. They make a specialty of Hermitage 
and Old Crow whiskies in bond or free. They import direct from 
the most celebrated European houses, and offer advantages in 
prices very difficult to be secured elsewhere. Mr. Fisher is a 
native of Vermont, while Mr. Fairbanks was born in Mass. Their 
trade now extends throughout all sections of the United States 
and Canada and is constantly increasing. 



TRACEY, Photographer, No. 913 Washington Street.— The 
steady and remarkable progress made in photography is 
one of the notable features that mark this age of progress 
in which we live. The improvement and advance made in 
this direction since Daguerre introduced the process of retaining 
likenesses by chemical action on sensitive plates, half a century 
ago, is notliing less than marvelous. And now even moving ob- 
jects, and it is said colors, are reproduced to the lite instantaneously. 
A South End artist who has won an excellent reputation for skill 
in this line is Thomas Tracey, whose finely appointed and well 
equipped studio is located at No.913 Washington Street, corner Pleas- 
ant, and who ranks among the foremost exponents of the photo- 
graphic art in this section of the city. Mr. Tracey, who is yet a 
young man, was born at Halifax, N. S., whence he moved to New 
York and learned his profession in the Metropolis under the tutelage 
otthe best artists. He is a practical and expert photographer, of ten 
years' experience, and is a thorough master of his art in all its 
br.anches. He establislied himself in business here in October, 1887, 
and by tlie superiority of his work, soon acquired recognition and 
patronage, gaining in a short time a large and flattering trade. Mr. 
Tracey occupies commodious, handsome and well ordered quarters, 
and has in service all the latest improved apparatus, appliance and 
general appurtenances to a flrst-class photo-gallery, including the 
instantaneous process, while seven competent assistants are em- 
ployed. Everything in the line of photography is executed in the 
highest style of the art at popular prices, fine portrait work being 
a specialty, while portraits are copied in oil, water-color, India 
ink, crayon and pastelle in the most expeditious and excellent 
manner, the pictures leaving this establishment being Al in every 
feature of merit, in tidelity to original or copy, in design, execution- 
shading and finish. 

BOYLE BROTHERS, South End Furniture and Carpet House, 
Nos. 851 to X^b Washington .Street.— Tliis business was estab- 
lished in 1878 by Messrs. T. F, Boyle and E. J. Boyle both of 
whom are thoroughly practical men. fully convers,ant with 
every detail of the furniture trade and the requirements of pa- 
trons. The premises occupied comprise a spacious three-story and 
basement building 40x125 feet in area. The various salesroomsare 
fully stocked with a superior assortment of parlor, chamber, din- 
ing-room, hall, drawing-room and kitchen furniture, the parlor sets 
being obtainable in all the latest and choicest styles of up- 
holstery. In the carpet department are the finest patterns in 
.\xministers, Wiltons, velvets, Brussels, ingrains, etc., which are 
offered to customers at the lowest possible prices. Various pat- 
terns of oil cloths, linoleum, cocoa m.ats and matting can always be 
found here, all quoted at astonishingly low figures. Purchasers 
intending to buy for cash or desiring a liberal credit can always .at 
this establishment obtain the lowest prices and the best terms. 
Messrs. Boyle Brothers make aspecialty of completely furnishing 
any sizes of houses of flats, and promptly furnish estimates when 
required. Both partners were born in Boston. They have a 
branch store and employ upwards of 500 men who carry their 
merchandise throughout New England and sell their goods on the 
installment plan. 

WILLIAM P. CHASE, Book-Lettering and Stamping a Spe- 
cialty, No. 183 Washington Street.— Mr. Chase has been 
engaged in this business for the past twenty years and 
h.as achieved a fine reputation for the artistic skill he has 
invariably displayed in .all the work he has turned out. He h.as 
occupied his present commodious premises for the past ten years, 
comprising office and workroom on the second floor, 25x40 feet in 
dimensions, finely equipped with every appliance in the trade. 
Five to ten men are employed in the est.ablishment in book letter- 
ing and stamping of every description, a specialty of the house 
being the marking of names on books, albums, traveling bags, 
pocket books, trusses, silks, satins, ribbons, society badges, etc. 
The trade in this line is very extensive extending all over 
New England, while in Boston a large portion of the work is 
executed for the various book stores of the city. No one can 
claim superior skill in this branch of trade with Mr. Chase who 
h.a3 devoted nearly all his life to its pursuit and who was the 
recipient of a medals and diplomas at the fair of the Massachusetts 
Mechanic Association for book lettering and stamping. 



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SM. SPENCEK. Stencil and Stamp Works. No. 112 Washing- 
ton Street.— Tlieie is perliaps not one among the many well 
eqnipped and flourishing stencil and stamp works in this 
city that is more widely known than the popular and 
prosperous concern of S. M. Spencer, No. lli; Wasliington Street, 
whose productions are in steady and increasing demand, not only 
throughout the New England States, hut also in the West and 
Soutli, witli some export also to the South American countries. It 
is, in all respects, one of the leading, largest and most responsible 
establishments devoted to this particular branch of industrial 
activity in Boston, and has a large, active and growing business. 
Tlie articles produced here are of exceptional merit, and for 
efBcacy, reliability and general excellence are unsurpassed by any 
device of the kind yet placed on the market, as is amply attested 
by the enduring hold the stamps, stencils, presses, etc., man- 
ufactured in this concern have gained on public favor everywhere. 
Mr. Spencer who is a gentleman in the prime of life, active and 
energetic, is a practical and expert workman himself, of many 
years' experience, and is a thorough master of the art in all its 
branches. He established in business in Vermont (his native 
state) upward of a quarter of a century ago, moving to Boston in 
1872, and has occupied the present commodious quarters about ten 
years. The business premises occupy an oRlce and salesroom on 
second floor, with five rooms used as shops on the third floor, while 
a dozen or so skilled hands are employed. The productions in- 
clude everything in the line of steel and rubber stamps, seal 
presses, dies, stencil, brass labels, automatic numbering machines, 
check protectors, key tags, checks, badges, gilding, etc., a large 
and complete assortment being constantly kept in stock, while 
stamps, stencil, presses, dies, letters and kindred devices aie made 
to order likewise in the most expeditious and excellent manner. 
A fine seventy-six page illustrated catalogue is published, giving 
exact cuts and price list, the same being sent free to any address 
on application. 

COTTON & HALEY, Commission Merchants, and General Im- 
porters, No. 126 State Street.— This Arm are widely known 
as Commission Merchants and General Importers, receiv- 
ing sugar, molasses and West India goods from producers 
and shippers in the West Indies, and exporting ice and general 
merchandise to various foreign ports. The foundation of this busi- 
ness was laid some fifty years ago, by Mr. D. P. Cotton in the West 
Indies. In 1859 he came to Boston with Mr. Clias. L. Haley, and 
founded the house here, still retaining an extensive business con- 
nection at Barbadoes and Trinidad, which has been continued 
down to the present time. The original founders have both been 
dead for a number of years, and the house is now controlled by 
Messrs. W. D. and N. H. Cotton, sons of the original senior partner. 
These gentlemen have been trained in the business from their 
youth up, and their name is an honored and familiar one on both 
sides the water. As commission merchants their connections are 
wide-spread and influential, their resources are ample and abund- 
ant, and their facilities are unsurpassed, enabling them to fill the 
largest export orders for merchandise of all kinds, and affording 
tlie best possible market for the prompt disposal of consignments 
of sugar, molasses and other West India products. They are one 
of the best and most favorably known Boston firms trading be- 
tween this city and the West Indies, and have built up an influen- 
tial and prosperous trade throughout New England, New York 
and other portions of the Union. The Messrs. Cotton were born in 
Boston. 

P D.WHEATLAND, Stock Broker, No. 40 State Street.— 
Among the prominent and popular stock brokers of 
^ Boston is Mr. P. D. Wheatland, who occupies spacious and 
well-equipped quarters at No. 40 State Street. This 
gentleman is a member of the Boston Stock Exchange, and has 
been established as a broker here since early in 1887. He handles 
stocks of all kinds, and represents the interests of S. Morris Pryor 
& Company, of New York, in this city. He has built up an exten- 
sive and influenti.al connection with the principal cities through- 
out the Union, and is entrusted by many parties with important 
commissions for investment which receive at all times the most 
careful consideration. Mr. Wheatland buys and sells all securities 
dealt in at the Boston, New York and Chicago Stock Exchanges at 



lowest rates of commission permitted by those organizations, ob- 
tains continuous reports of the markets, executes all orders 
promptly, and placing all transactions upon a thoroughly substan- 
tial and satisfactory basis. His oftlce is connected by private wire 
with New York and Chicago, and orders for the purch.ase or sale 
of stocks are filled by him in quantities to suit purchasers, from 
ten to five thousand shares. In this system of business losses are 
limited to the amount of margin deposited, wliile profits are un- 
limited, and all the advantages of the market obtainable by mem- 
bers of the different exchanges are here offered to clients as 
though they were present on the floor of the exchange themselves. 
Full quotations are received by ticker, and all sources of informa- 
tion are searched as a guide to the market. This pfflce is open 
alike to the man of wealth and to the man of limited means, and 
each receives the same consideration at the hands of the manage- 
ment. Mr. Wheatland is a native of Boston, and a young man of 
large experience on change, of high reputation and standing in 
financial circles, and has built up a business in this and other 
leading cities of the Union that clearly shows his energy, ability 
and influence. 

N ORRIS & CORTHELL, Insurance Agents and Brokers, No. 
2o Congress Street.— Of the numerous responsible insur- 
ance firms in the city of Boston, none stands higher in 
public confidence, or has received a larger measure of rec- 
ognition from the leading merchants, manufacturers and property 
owners of this community, than tliat of Messrs. Norris & Corthell. 
This business was established in 1859 by Mr. W. H. Norris, who 
conducted it till 1861, when on the breaking out of the Civil War 
he enlisted in the Union Army. He continued in the service till 
the capture of General Lee's army at Richmond in 1865, when he 
returned to Boston, and bought his brother's Insurance business, 
which had been founded in 18.53. In 1878 Mr. J. K. Ccu'thell became 
a partner, the Arm being kn^wu by tlie style and title of " Norris 
& Corthell." This reliable firm represents the following first-class 
American and British companies, viz: Niagara of New York; 
American of Newark, N. J. ; London & Lancasliire of London ; 
Commercial Union of London ; Traders of Cliicago; Providence 
Washington of Providence, R. I.; Union of Philadelphia; Williams- 
burg City of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Sun of London ; Standard Accident 
of Detroit, and .several others. As practical and experienced 
underwriters Messrs. Norris & Corthell offer substantial induce- 
ments to the public, including low rates and liberally drawn 
policies, while all losses sustained are equitably adjusted and 
promptly paid through this popular agency. The firm are pre- 
pared to take entire charge of the insurance of large mill, factory 
and warehouse properties, dwellings, stores, etc., placing and 
distributing risks among sound companies only, renewing policies 
when expired, and generally relieving the business community of 
all care and trouble in this important respect. Mr. Norris was 
born in New Hampshire, while his partner Mr. Corthell is a native 
of Hingham, Mass. Their long experience in insurance matters is 
a guarantee that they fully understand every detail, and offer the 
best possible indemnity to patrons furnished by the most responsi- 
ble Insurance companies in existence. 

C EDWARD FRENCH, Distiller of N. E. Rum, Copper Dis- 
tilled, No. 134 State Street.— The oldest established and 
, most noted house in tlie city of Boston actually engaged 
in distillation of New England Rum, is that of Mr. C. 
Edward Frencli. This business upwards of a century ago was 
founded by one of the French family. In 1845 Mr. Wm. E. French 
became sole proprietor, and was succeeded in 1858 by Mr. James 
H. French. Eventually in 1885 Mr. C. Edward French assumed the 
management. The distillery, which is admirably equipped with the 
latest improved apparatus and appliances is in Essex Street. The 
capacity of the distillery is upwards of 600,000 gallons annually. 
The New England Copper Distilled Rum produced at this famous 
distillery is unrivalled for purity, quality, flavor and uniform ex- 
cellence, and is a general favorite with the trade and public. Mr. 
French fills orders promptly and carefully at the lowest ruling 
prices, and his trade is by no means confined to the United States, 
but extends to Europe, Africa and Australia. Personally, Mr. 
French Is a native of Boston, where he is too widely known in the 
trade to require any comments at our hands. 



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REVERSIBLE COLLAR CO., Manufacturers of "Lineiie" 
Collars and Cuffs, and all kinds of Cloth-backed Paper, 
Office, No. 27 Kilby Street, Factory, Cambridge.— One of 
tlie most practical, useful, and highly appreciated inven- 
tions of the age is that of the methods of manufacturing the 
world famous " Linene " collars and!cufls, the handsomest, most 
durable and economical articles of their kind in existence. The 
late Mr. George K. .Snow was the inventor of the process of 
making " Linene " collars and all kinds of cloth-backed paper, 
and in 1862, in partnership with several capitalists he began the 
manufacture of tlie above goods. They were an instant success 
and the demand of the trade grew so rapidly as to tax their 
facilities to the utmost. Eventually in 1866, the important inter- 
ests involved were duly capitalized under the appropriate title 
of the Reversible Collar Company, with a capital that is now 
$250,000. A large factory was erected in Cambridge, fitted up with 
special machinery and appliances and where the manufacture of 
"Linene" collars and cuffs, Gray's moulded collars, and collars 
and cuffs for the ladies are produced upon the most extensive 
scale, upwards of seventy-five hands being employed. The de- 
cease of Mr. Snow occurred in 1885, and he was succeeded in tlie 
presidency by Mr. Phineas Pierce, a capitalist and merchant of 
the highest standing and who is of the old .and widely known 
house of Messrs. Marsh Bros. & Pierce, wliolesale dry goods. 
Under his able guidance the company has made substantial prog- 
ress and achieved a great success. Mr. Eben Denton is the 
treasurer, and general manager. A business man of sound judg- 
ment and marked executive ability, he brings ripe experience to 
bear in this line, and in the faithful discharge of his duties has 
permanently maintained the high standard of excellence of the 
company's product. "JJnene" collars cannot be distinguished 
from the finest linen colUrs. They are of the highest finish, 
never wilt in warm weather, are easy, handsome and stylish, 
and being reversible wear so long that it is to the economical 
advantage of every one to wear them in preference to linen. 
Every traveler and all residents in the country prefer these col- 
lars and city people find them a great saving in laundry bills 
and annoyance. The company sell all over the world and have 
a resident wholesale agent in Liverpool, whence the goods find 
their way all over Great Britain and Europe. The company man- 
ufacture cloth-backed paper for lithographers, draughtsmen, 
printers, etc. 

PETER McINTi'RE & CO.. Wholesale Grocers, and Dealers in 
Flour and Provisions, Nos. 196 Connnercial and 171 Fulton 
Streets.— One of the oldest established and most reliable 
houses in Boston, actively engaged in the wholesale grocery 
trade, is that of Messrs. Peter Mclntyre & Co. This business was 
established seventy-five years ago. After various changes the 
present firm was organized, the copartners being Messrs. Peter 
Mclntyre and J. Harvey Mclntyre. Mr. Peter Mclntyre, who is 
now seventy years old, has been connected with this house for 
the last forty-eight years. The premises occupied comprise a spa- 
cious floor and basement 25x125 feet in dimensions, fully stocked 
with a well selected and choice assortment of teas, coffees, 
spices, dried fruits, canned goods of every description, sugars, 
syrups, and everything pertaining to the staple and fiincy gro- 
cery trade. The firm make a specialty of dealing in flour and 
provisions and of supplying steamships, sailing vessels, yachts, 
etc., with stores. Only the purest and best goods are handled, 
and the trade of the house now extends throughout all sections of 
New England, while the prices quoted in all cases are as low as 
those of any other first-class house in the trade. Mr. Peter Mc- 
lntyre wiis born in Scotland, but has resided in the United States 
the greater part of his life— his son Mr. J. Harvey Mclntyre, how- 
ever, is a native of Boston. 

DANIEL FRANK & CO., Imported and Domestic Cigars, No. 
10 Post Office Square.— The initials "N. S." constitute the 
most valuable trade-mark known to the cigar trade, and 
the vast demand for these reliable and fragrant goods has 
resulted in the development of one of the greatest manufacturing 
Interests of the kind in the world, while Boston is materially ben- 
efitted as being the depot of supplies for these popular cigars. 
Their manufacture was begun by Mr. N. Samuel, who established 



his business here in 1860 and was succeeded in 1884 by Messrs. 
Daniel Frank & Co., the present proprietors, who occupy spacious 
quarters at No. 10 Post Oltice Square. This firm are widely promi- 
nent and popular as wholesale and retail dealers in imported and 
domestic cigars, and their house is known and honored by the 
trade and the public in this city and throughout New England as the 
depot for the genuine N. S. cigars. They also handle the Sublime, 
and a number of private brands of known excellence, besides 
Key West cigars in vast quantities, and fine Havanas wiiich they 
import direct and supply to the trade .and the public at terms 
and prices which defy successful competition. The man-igement 
has made a close study of the public want, and has in stock by far 
the most varied and comprehensive assortment of fine goods, in 
all styles, sorts and makes, to be found in this city, so as to be 
prepared to satisfactorily meet the most exacting requirements. 
In a word, this firm niiike their customers" interests their own, and 
dealers feel safe in buynig from such an honorable, responsible 
house realizing that they best meet the wants of their own trade, 
and can in that way permanently develop a profitable business in 
their section against .all odds; while consumers patronize this 
place because they are made happier by so doing. Mr. Frank, the 
active member of this firm and moving spirit of the enterprise, is 
a native of the City of Baltimore, a resident of Boston for the past 
ten years, still in tlie early prime of life, and a true type of Amer- 
ican pluck, enterprise, true grit and thoroughy reliability. 

WM. G. ANDERSON, Manufacturer of Metallic Swivel Win- 
dow Screens, Automatic Window Sasli Balances, Etc., 
No. 178 Washington Street.— Mr. Anderson is tlie in- 
ventor and patentee of Anderson's metallic swivel 
window screens, automatic widow sasli balances, sash starter, 
combining lifter, closer and lock and patent combined felt and 
rubber weather strips. Mr. Anderson's automatic window sash 
balance and combine_d felt and rubber parting beads, acting as 
weather strips, prevent any binding or shaking of tlie sashes, 
keeping out wind, dust, etc. By pressing a spring lock the sash 
immediately opens to the top, and by drawing down will stay, and 
when closed is self-locking and burglar-proof, and will last for 
years. It does away with weights, cords, pulleys, lifts, sash-fasts, 
and weather strips, and costs less than the old method. Needs 
only to be seen to be appreciated. These sash balances are fitted 
with patent steel spiral springs (three-eightlis to one-half inch in 
diameter), which will last indefinitely and are guaranteed in every 
case. The heavier the sash the better. Price, trom $1 to $5 per 
window. Anderson's sash starter, combining lifter, closer, and 
lock, combines with a window sash a slmplestarting lever of great 
power, that will enable any person, with but slight exertion, to 
start and lift a heavy siish, or to start a sash that has become 
wedged or frozen in,- it being well known to housekeepers and 
others that window sashes will, from a great number of causes, 
bind after having been closed. This device may also be used as 
part of sash-fastener. Mr. Anderson has been awarded medals 
for his Inventions at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Anderson originally founded this business in Worces- 
ter, Mass. In 1880 he removed to Boston. 

FH. SUMNER & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 1 Exchange 
Place.— One of the most stanch and sagacious among the 
younger firms engaged in financial and stock transactions 
in Boston is that of F. H. Sumner & Co., bankers and 
brokers and members of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum 
Exchange, at No. 7 Exchange Place, who by close study of the 
market coupled with energy, ability and thoroughly honorRble 
business methods, have succeeded in establishing an excellent 
standing, and .acquiring a large, active and highly gratifying 
patronage numbering among their clientele many of the solid 
citizens of Boston and vicinity. This prosperous business was 
established in I8a5 by the present senior member. They occupy 
finely appointed and well equipped offices, haying in service all 
necessary appurtenances, including private wire to New York 
while Purnell, Hagaman & Co., of the latter city, represent the 
firm as correspondents. A general banking and brokerage busi- 
ness is transacted, stocks, bonds, securities, grain and provisions 
being bought and sold on commission, and carried on margin, and 
orders are executed both on the Boston and New York markets. 



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MASON & CO., Coin Dealers, No. 435 Washington Street.— 
The oiliest coin dealers and publishers in the United 
.States are Messrs. Mason & Co., who occupy spacious and 
commodious quarters at No. 235 Washington Street, in 
this city. The active member of the Arm and moving spirit of the 
enterprise, Mr. E. L. Mason, established the business originally in 
18(50. in the city of Philadelphia, removing to Boston in 1883. He is 
•widely known as an authority on coins, and as the publisher ot 
the first coin price catalogue and coin 
collectors' magazine in the United 
States; also a beautifully bound and 
complete illustrated history of the 
coins of the world, containing ancient 
Greek, Koman and Jewish coinage; 
early and modern coins of Asia and 
.Africa; Anglo-American, American 
' Colonial, and continental issues; pat- 
tern pieces, experimental Issues, and 
coiuages of the United States; 1200 
pages, illustrated with over 1500 fac 
similes, collated and arranged by Mason & Co. ; to which is added 
an appendix by E. L. Mason, (numismatist,) presenting an authen- 
ticated statement of the coinage of the late Southern Confederacy 
at New Orleans, in 1861, with copies of papers on file in tlie con- 
federate archives at Washington, and facsimiles of tlie coins 





is.sued. Price S5.00; to subscribers of Mason's Illustrated Coin 
Collectors' Magazine, $3.50. The magazine mentioned vv.is estab- 
lished by Mr. Mason in 1867, is published monthly, price twenty- 
five cents per copy, or two dollars per annum. A splendid assort- 
ment of coins are here exhibited, including ancient Greek and 
examples in all metals from Athens, Thebes, Argos, Agrigentium 
Syracuse, Crotona, Illyria, Egypt, Macedonia, Syria, Judea, etc.', 
some Issued under republican, others imperial and regal govern- 
ments, with historical tyrants everywhere, and the coins varying 







in sizes from the Hemiobolus to Tetradrachm in silver, one-fourth 
to four staters in gold, and from tlie most minute to tlie largest 
size in bronze. The prices are the most surprising part of the 
exhibition, for coins, so many centuries old, many of them can be 
had for ten cents to one dollar each, and seldom do any but the 
gold coins call for more than ten dollars. The "tribute penny" 
of the Bible (a Denarius of Tiberius Coesar) which was offered to 
test the Saviour's loyalty, can be bought here in fine condition at 
two dollars to three dollars almost as perfect as when coined 
nearly 1900 years ago. The bronze coins of the Roman emperors 
from Augustus Ciesar to Constantine the Great and his family, can 
be bought at fifteen cents to fifty cents each; in fact, they are 
cheaper here than when found, as a rule. The rare coins ot the 
ancient Hebrews are also shown. The Pine-tree and Oak-tree 
shillings are the most common of the Massachusetts silver coins, 
while the Willow-tree is the rarest of the series. Many interesting 
coins of the colonial period are shown, including the famous gold 
doubloon of New York, the "King of the Colonials." The coin 
price book of sixteen pages, showing buying and selling prices of 
this firm for coins, la sent to any address on receipt of twenty-live 
cents in stamps. 



HE. ABBOTT, Insurance .\gency ; Offices, No. 2 Adver- 
tiser Building.— One of the most popular, ablest 
^ and successful general insurance agents in Boston 
and New England is Mr. H. E. Abbott, of No. 2 
Advertiser Building. The extensive business conducted by 
him w.as founded in 1S68, and has had a rapid and substantial 
growth. As agent, Mr. Abbott represents the most desirable fire, 
life, accident and marine insurance companies with which to do 
business. He is the authorized agent for the Royal Queen, 
Northern and Sun Fire OfBce, all of London, England; British 
America, of Canada; the Hanover and Niagara, of New York; the 
Fire Association and Pennsylvania, of Philadelphia; the National 
Fire, of Hartford ; the Traders, of Chicago ; the Dorchester Mutual, 
of Boston, the Quincy Mutual (both paying dividends of sixty per 
cent.) ; and the old Worcester and Middlesex Mutuals (paying divi- 
dends of seventy per cent.). These companies present an admira- 
ble array, and policy holders in any of them feel an absolute secu- 
rity. Mr. Abbott is prepared to promptly place the largest lines 
of insurance at lowest rates, the risks being well distributed 
among responsible companies. He controls the insuring of desira- 
ble lines of business and residential property in Boston 
and vicinity, and has become deservedly popular with our 
leading i>roperty owners. As a matter of fact, Mr. Abbott 
brings good fortune both to the comjianies the represents, 
as well as the insured. He had the agency of the Royal, 
Hanover aud Pennsylvania companies for over ten years, 
writing hundreds of policies annually, with premiums from 
thirty to forty thousand dollars during the time, without a single 
loss in either company. Sucli an enviable record is, we believe, 
unparalleled in the history of New England fire insurance. Mr. 
Abbott represents the Equitable Life Assurance Company of New 
York, the most powerful in the world, which writes the most lib- 
eral policies in all schemes, from the old-line life to ten and twenty 
years tontine, and whose heavy dividends practically give a man 
insurance on his life for next to nothing. The company's popular- 
ity is deservedly very great among the shrewd and conservative 
citizens of Boston Mr. Abbott is an active and respected mem- 
ber of the Board of Fire Insurance Underwriters and of the Board 
of Insurance Brokers, and is a responsible, popular agent, of the 
highest standing, and w ho refers to leading firms as to his ability, 
and honorable and efficient methods in the vitally important fields 
of fire and life insurance. Mr. Abbot also transacts a large and 
successful real estate business in Brookline, wliere he has resided 
for the last fifteen years. 

EA. BOARDMAN, Wine Merchant, No. 2 Post Office Ave- 
nue (Rear of No. 22 Congress Street).— A carefully pre- 
pared review of the general business interests of Boston, 
reveals the existence of some noteworthy establishments 
many of which, although not widely known outside of the city 
and environs, have been In prosperous existence long enough to 
merit the distinctive, veritable landmarks. Among the places re- 
ferred to may be named the time-honored and deservedly popular 
store of E A Boardman. the well-known wine merchant, which is 
eligibly located at No. 2 Post Office Avenue (rear of No. 22 Con- 
gress street), and which, for nearly sixty years, has maintained an 
enduring hold on public favor. It isone of theoldest and best-kept 
establishments of the kind in this city, and fully sustains to-day its 
old-time reputation for fine goods and reliability— none better in 
Boston— while its patronage grows apace with years. Ouly Al 
goods are handled, and patrons can rely ujion getting a very su 
perior article, courteous attention and satisfactory treatment in 
every instance here. The business was established in 1831 by E. 
A. Boardman, the elder, who conducted the same up to 1868, when, 
owing to his death, which occurred at this period, it passed into 
the hands of his son and successor, who has since continued it with 
uninterrupted success. The store is compact, ample and neatlyap- 
pointed, several conrjietent assistants being employed, while a 
large flrst-class stock is constantly carried, including the choicest 
brandy of imported and native wines, brandies, champagnes, gins, 
liquors, cordials, rums, whiskies and bottled goods of every descrip- 
tion, Mr. Boardman, being a direct importer. The establishment 
maintains both a wholesale and retail department, cluband family 
trade being a specialty, and altogether, a large and influential pa- 
tronage is received. 



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JH. FLITNER & CO., General Commission Mercliants, Stiip 
Broliers, Etc., Nos. 200 Commercial and 175 Fulton Streets 
J —An old established and prominent llrm in Boston, engaged 
as general commission merchants, ship-brokers and deal- 
ers in ship stores and chandlery is that ol Messrs. J. H. Flitner & 
Co., whose offices and salesrooms are located at Nos. 200 Conmier- 
cial and 175 Fulton Streets. Mr. Flitner engaged in this business 
in 1862 at his present stand as clerk with Mr. Jos. J. Durham who 
sold out to Messrs. Pitcher, Fuller & Co. in 1864, Mr. Flitner being 
admitted to tlie tlrin as junior member, in 1807. Mr. Fuller retir- 
ing from tlie firm, the new Arm was organized under the style of 
Pitcher, Flitner & Co. which continued until 1876, when J. H. Flit- 
ner became sole proprietor, conducting the business under the 
style and title ot J. H. Flitner & Co. Mr. Flitner is well qualified 
to represent sliippiug interests in the port of Boston— ot both ves- 
sels and merchandise and to make advances on the latter, when 
reiiuired. He attends promptly and carefully to the chartering 
and dispatching of vessels, collects freights, and acts as agent for 
the owners, and deals largely in ship stores and chandlery. Mr. 
Flitner was born in Maine, but lias resided in Boston for the last 
twenty-nine years. He is a member ot tlie chamber ot commerce, 
and is highly regarded in business circles for his energy, prompt- 
ness and integrity. The liberal methods of this house render it a 
desirable one witli wliicli to deal, and those forming business rela 
tions with tliem-will obtain all the advantages of their experience. 

GEORGE E. LITTLEKIELD, Dealer in Old, Rare, and Curious 
Books, Genealogies, Etc., No. 67 Cornhill Street.- Mr.George 
E. Littlefleld lias become nationally celebrated as one of the 
leading and most enterprising dealers in old, rare and curi- 
ous books. Since establishing in business in 18G8, he has bought 
and sold many thousands of the most valuable works treating ot 
American history and genealogy, biography, travels, theology, 
science, etc., and his store is a veritable treasure house tostudents. 
collectors and librarians. Mr. Littlefleld is a recognized authority 
as to the values ot old Americana, and has handled more of these 
cherished old products ot the press than any other dealer. In 
genealogies and histories he is specially strong, and the attention 
of all interested is directed to his most interesting and very com- 
plete priced catalogues, which contain descriptions ot hundreds 
of the rarest and most curious books now in the market. Mr. Lit- 
tlefield purchases libraries or smaller collections ot books, ap- 
praises values, etc., and secures for his patrons almost any book in 
existence. Thousands ot volumes, long out of print, can be liad 
through him, and he does a large trade with the great libraries 
throughout the United States, also leading private collectors. He 
likewise sells to the trade. He enjoys special facilities tor filling 
dilBciilt orders and tor picking up rare and valuable old books. 
Mr. Littlefleld is a native of Boston, a graduate of Harvard Uni- 
versity, and has here developed the leading business in his line. 
This store is the daily resort of old students, and ot men interested 
in the collection of old books ot all descriptions. 

GEORGE W. H AWES,Manutacturer ot the Paris Adjustable Sus- 
pender, Shoulder Braces, and all kinds ot Elastic Goods, No. 
71 Sudbury Street.— The leading manufacturer in New Eng- 
land of fine webbing and all elastic goods for ladies" and gen- 
tlemen's wear, is Mr. George W. Hawes. The business was estab- 
lished by him in 1875. Mr. Hawes, a native ot Randolph, Mass., 
and long a respected resident ot Boston, brings to bear every pos- 
sible qualification. He has fitted up his factory with the latest im- 
proved machinery and employs an average force of twelve hands 
in the manufacture ot his justly celebrated Paris adjustable sus- 
pender, ladies' and gents' London and Crown shoulder braces, and 
all kinds of elastic goods tor ladies' and gentlemen's wear. The 
materials used are the best, while the workmanship is ot the most 
skilled and perfect character, finish elaborate, and his brands ot 
suspenders and shoulder braces are handled and eagerly sought by 
the best class of men's furnishing and fancy goods stores in our 
large cities. Mr. Hawes manufactures largely for the trade, pro- 
ducing from sample in any quantity, the exact style ot suspenders, 
braces, abdominal supporters, etc., at prices which {quality con- 
sidered) cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Suspenders are mounted 
for the trade in the most careful and substantial manner. Mr. 
Hawes is a worthy member of Boston industrial circles. 



J W.BAILEY & SONS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Mould- 
ings, Brackets, Stair Rails and Posts, and Building Trim- 
, niings ot alHiinds, No. 14 Cliarlestown Street.— This firm 
have a wide reputation as extensive wholesale and retail 
dealers in mouldings, brackets, wood mantels, stair rails and posts, 
newels, balusters, gutters, conductors and building trimmings ot 
all kinds. The business was originally established in 1873, by 
Messrs. E. W.Bailey & Co., who were succeeded by Messrs. .lotham 
W. and Edward S. Bailey, under the firm name of J. W. Bailey & 
Son, in January, 1875. The firm of J. W. Bailey & Sons was organ- 
ized January 1, 1886, by the admission ot Mr. Willard L. Bailey to 
partnership. The honored senior partner, Mr. Jotham W. Bailey, 
died on November 4th last, at his home in North Scituate, where 
he was born May 5, 1832, and where he was knosvn as a prominent 
and useful citizen. His two sons have since continued the business 
under the old firm name. The business premises consist of a sub- 
stantial building containing six floors and a basement, 25x85 feet 
in dimensions, giving ample accommodations for handling and 
storing the immense and diversified stock that is liere carried. 
This firm are Boston agents for the Mankey Decorative Company, 
manufacturers ot fancy wood carving, ot Williamsport, Pa.; and 
also for the Fred A. Tatt Company, manufacturers of wood orna- 
ments, of Hartford, Ct. The stock includes also pressed corner 
blocks and ornaments which, while possessing the attractiveness 
ot carved wood, are much less expensive, and have a standard rep- 
utation in the market ; also, marbleoid mantel shelves, metallic 
conductors and other specialties which bear such a character for 
utility and usefulness as to command universal attention and gen- 
eral patronage. These goods are in heavy and permanent demand 
wherever once introduced, and the trade of the house is large 
flrst-class and influential in New England, and throughout the 
west and south, while a fine growing export trade is enjoyed with 
England and other foreign countries. The Messrs. Bailey are 
Massachusetts men by birth and training, standing deservedly 
high in business and trade circles. 

CHARLES W. HOLDEN, General Insurance Agent, No. 42 Con- 
gress Street.— Mr. Holden established this business in 1867, 
and during the intervening period has developed a connec 
tion Ota very influential and superior character. He con- 
ducts a gener.al lite, i^re, marine, acejdent, plate glass, and boiler 
insurance business, and represents the following first-class com- 
panies, viz:— The Merchants' Insurance Company, ot Newark, N. 
J. ; Washington Lite, Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New 
York, etc. Persons about to cross the ocean and travel abroad, 
whether tor business or pleasure, should not fail to secure an acci 
dent policy in the Fidelity before starting, it being but a trifling 
addition to the cost ot the trip. A policy issued by this company 
insures against death or disabling injury, and is as effectual against 
the dangers ot ocean or railway travel as a policy for same amount 
issued by a life insurance company, while it costs only about one- 
tenth as much. No medical examination is required. In fire insur- 
ance Mr. Holden offers substantial inducements and advantages to 
the public including low rates and liberally drawn policies, while 
all losses sustained are equitably adjusted and promptly paid 
through his agency. Mr. Holden is a popular member of the Bos- 
ton Underwriters' Association. 

NEW ENGLAND LOBSTER COMPANY, Nos. 268 and 270 Atlau 
tic Avenue, G. L. Young, Manager.— Boston is the most im- 
portant fish market in the country, and the business is con- 
ducted on an extensive scale liy the New England Lobster- 
Company. Mr. Lorenzo Richards established the business in 
April, 1887, and in September 1888, the present company was 
formed, which is under the immediate management ot Mr. G. L. 
Young, whose experience as a dealer in sea food, extends over 
many years. .A.mple facilities are provided tor the purposes of tlie 
business and all kinds of deep sea fish, lobsters, oysters and frozen 
herring and smelts are received daily and a large wholesale trade 
supplied. The company also smoke .ind pack tor the trade, the 
celebrated Youngs' Finnen Baddies which have a standard repu- 
tation and are always in demand throughout the country. The 
business carried on is very extensive and Mr. Young who is a na- 
tive of St. Johns, New Brunswick, holds a high position among 
those engaged in his special line of trade. 



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HP. WEBSTER, Tea and Coffee, No. 90 Blackstone Street.— 
Tliis is the headquarters for pulverized coffee and tea, 
and tlie only house putting up coffee liot from the roaster, 
ground to snuff lilce powder; also for Webster's Earthen 
Coffee and Tea Pot Combined, patented June ;., 1884; and for the 
finest grades of tea and coffee at both wholesale and retail. This 
deserving enterprise was inaugurated here in 1882, by Mr. Webster, 
who had been engaged for many years in the grocery trade and 
was thoroughly posted as toall its requirements and demands. He 
occupies a spacious and attractive salesroom, with a large store- 
room in the rear, and carries a very extensive stock of tea and 
coffee at all times, which is always of standard excellence, guar- 
anteed purity and direct from the importers, including the choicest 
selections of Oolong, Japan, English breakfast and China green 
teas, old Government Java, Malt and Java, and Maltava coffees, 
which for strength, delicacy of aroma and purity, are unexcelled. 
The latest and leading specialty handled by Mr. Webster is Malt- 
ava coffee, a perfect liquid food and delicious table beverage com- 
bined, produced by skilfully blending the purest malt and the 
finest Java coffee, which is put up for Mr. Webster by Messrs. Chase 
& Sanborn, the well-known coffee importers and roasters of this 
city, who placed it upon the market in June, 1888. Webster's com- 
pound Malt and Java coffee is another specialty of this house, 
which was copyrighted in 1888 by Mr. Webster, and is put up in two 
pound cans and for sale by first-class grocers everywhere. Web- 
ster's improved earthen coffee and tea pot, patented June 3, 1884, 
is made from Rockingham ware, has two percolators, one each for 
tea and coffee, no rust, and is just as clean as a glass tumbler. 
Coffee contains six per cent, tannic acid ; tea, fourteen per cent., and 
should not be made in tin or metal pots, but in earthen, to obtain 
its proper flavor. There is no doubt that, for bankers, lawyers, 
bookkeepers, and all who live by mental labor, coffee made by the 
percolating process is the best. There is also no doubt that the 
best way to make this is by the use of the Webster earthen per- 
colating coffee pot, and the fine ground Java coffee. All goods 
sold by Mr. Webster are warranted pure. Mr. Webster was 
born in Plymouth, Mass., and settled in Boston in 1840. He is 
an eminently popular merchant, and enjoys a national reputation 
as the toiemost representative of the tea and coffee trade at the 
Hub. 

DAMM & PENKERT, Manufacturers of Clarinets, Flutes, Pic- 
colos and Oboes, Nos. 30 and 48 Hanover Street.— Among 
those who are prominently identified witli the manufacture 
of reed instruments, no firm in the city enjoy a higher rep- 
utation than that of Messrs. Damm & Penkert, successors to Messrs. 
Enders & Co., who establislied and had carried on the business for 
a period of five years previous to March last, the time it came un- 
der the control of the present firm. Messrs. Damm & Penkert are 
experienced, practical men and are doing a large business, manu- 
facturing to order clarinets, flutes, piccolos and oboes, and have 
achieved a high reputation for the standard character of the in- 
struments of their production, which are used extensively in bands 
and orchestras throughout all parts of the New England States, 
and are highly endorsed by musicians wherever introduced. The 
firm occupy a well equipped workshop and give special attention 
to repairing, and fully warrant their work which is done in the 
best manner at reasonable prices. Mr. August Damm and Mr. 
Fr. Penkert, the copartners, are Germans by birth. The former 
has been a resident of this country sixteen, and the latter eight 
years. They are both .skilled musicians. 

CHARLES F. MCCARTHY, Manufacturing Jeweler, No. 73 
Hanover Street.— The manufacture of jewelry is carried on 
quite extensively in Boston by a nmnber of expert practi- 
cal aitis.ans, among whom will be found Mr. Charles F. 
McCarthy. He is an experienced, i)ractical workman, and, during 
the two years he has been established in the business his sncccess 
has been well merited. He has introduced many new, novel and 
unique designs in rings, watch chains, badges, seals and various 
articles of jewelry, and manufactures for the trade and to order 
goods of any design or pattern. He occupies a very desirable lo- 
cation and is well equipped for doing all kinds of work and repair- 
ing in his line of business and has won an enviable reputation. He 
is a native of Charlestown. 



R CANNY, Importer and Dealer in West India Goods and 
Groceries, also Foreign and Domestic Liquors, Nos. 439,441, 
445 and 374 Hanover Street.— The establishments con- 
ducted by Mr. P. Canny, have long been celebrated as true 
representatives of what the possibilities of the modein grocery and 
liquor trade are. Tlie enterprising proprietor has been established in 
business for aperiod of twenty-eight years, and has become widely 
known as an extensive importer and wholesale and retail dealer in 
West India goods and groceries, foreign nad domestic liquors, tobac- 
cos and cigars, and agent for XX and XXXX Amber and Pale ales 
and porter. His main headquarters are at Nos. 441 and 445 Hanover 
Street.where he occupies a spacious and eotnmodius stoore and base* 
ment fitted up with an attractive sample room, and well stocked with 
choice and desirable goods. There is nothing in either hemisphere 
that comes under the head of staple groceries or choice liquors 
that is not to be founil here in its most attractive form, and pure, 
fresh and reliable as to quality. Mr. Canny's sound judgment in 
selecting his goods is well demonstrated by his choice importations 
of champagnes, clarets, ports, sherries and other desirable wines ; 
besides liquors, cordials. Cognac brandies, etc. AsTegards domes- 
tic staple groceries, the stock is comprehensive, covering the entire 
wide range, and including everything in its best quality. Such 
staples as teas, coffees and spices, so hard to obtain of the desired 
standard, are prominent specialties of this house. In the choicest 
brands of imported Havana cigars this house has an established 
reputation, and a fine hotel and private trade tluoughout the city. 
Sample rooms are also ojierated at Nos. 445 and 875 Hanover Street. 
Twelve clerks and salesmen contribute to the satisfactory opera- 
tions of this extensive business. All orders are promptly and care- 
fully filled ; goods are delivered to any part of the city free of 
charge, and prices are placed at the lowest point of moderation. 

FRANCIS SARGENT & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Car. 
riages. Sleighs, Harness, Etc., No. 72 Sudbury Street.— One of 
the most noted and old established houses in Boston, sue 
cessfuUy engaged in the manufacture and sale of carriages, 
sleighs, etc., is tliat of Messrs. Francis Sargent & Co., which was 
established fifty-six years ago by Francis Sargent, who sold carri- 
ages all over the United States, traveling with a team with a num- 
ber of carriages hitched behind. He would often sell out his stock 
and return on horseback. In 1852he opened his Boston Repository, 
and in 1862 admitted his son Mr. Elmer P. Sargent into partnership, 
the firm being known by the style and title of Francis Sargent & 
Co. In 1868 Mr. Elmer P. Sargent established a carriage factory 
in West Amesbury, and eventually in 1885 returned to his father's 
house, of which in 1887 he became sole proprietor, carrying on the 
business under the old firm name of Francis Sargent & Co. Mr. 
Francis Sargent, the founder, who has now retired from business, 
though seventy-eight years old is still hale and hearty. He is a 
strong republican and was born in West Amesbury, which is now 
called Merrimac. Jlr. Elmer P. Sargent is now conducting the 
business with energy, and occupies a commodious store and base- 
ment wliich are fully stocked with a superior assortment of car- 
riages, buggies, sleighs, harness, i-obes, mats and whips. He makes 
a specialty of the " Goddard Buggy " and deals only in the finest 
carriages and goods, while his prices in all cases are extremely 
moderate. Mr. Elmer P. Sargent is a native of Merrimac. 

WILLIAM T. MURPHY, Watchmaker, Jeweler and Opti- 
cian, No. 8 Washington Street. — Among the practical, 
expert watchmakers, jewelers and opticians in this city 
there are none more proficient in those branches than 
Mr. William T. Murphy, whose experience extends over many 
years. He occupies a very neatly, tastefully fitted up store and 
keeps on sale a general assortment of all kinds of American and 
foreign gold and silver watches, and also new style jewelry in rich 
eleg.ant designs, and also clocks ,and eye glasses .ind spectacles and 
optical goods generally. Mr. Murphy carefully cleans, repairs and 
regulates watches and clocks and repairs jewelry and spectacles 
and eye glasses, executing tlie work in the best manner with 
remarkable skill and judgment. He also fits glasses to suit the 
sight of the eye, and as an optician is pronounced one among the 
best in the city. He is a Bostonian by birth .and well known in 
the community, where he has always lived until the past few years 
when lie removed to Everett, an adjoining suburb. 



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REAJ), HAWKINS & CO., Flour and Produce, No. 148 State 
Street.— Few houses are so well equipped for successful 
and satisfactory service as that of Messrs. Read, Hawkins 
& Co., the well-known commission merchants in flour and 
produce, at No. 148 State Street, above State Street Block. The 
foundation of this business was laid in 1867 by Mr. Joseph Hawkins, 
who was succeeded by Messrs. Hawkins & Read, and in 1S79 tlie 
present nrm was organized by Messrs. E. M. Read, Joseph Haw- 
kins and John M. Hawkins, all tlioroughly experienced merchants, 
conuiianding a wide and valuable acquaintance in trade circles, 
and active, enterprising and capable to a marked degree. The 
result of their union has been the development of an extensive 
and important trade, broadly distributed throughout the entire 
New England States. The business premises comprise three 
spacious floors, admirably arrayed for liandling and storing the 
clioice and valuable stook here carried. The advantages possessed 
by the firm are of the best possible character, and their transac- 
tions are marked by prompt attention to every detail. The facili- 
ties and resources of tlie firm are admirable tor reaching a desir- 
able class of buyers, and the distinguishing policy of the house is 
the activity displayed in placing its consignments on the market 
and in making prompt and satisfactory returns. Every grade of 
flour is handled, including tlie best brands from Minnesota, Ohio, 
Indiana and Illinois, spring wheat and winter wheat flour being 
prominent specialties, while tlie best dairy and creamery butter 
from Vermont and other New England points is given special 
attention. In lact, in every department of the business the most 
perfect system prevails for insuring the higliest returns, while 
the reputation of the house for fair and honorable dealing is au 
additional inducement to tliose requiring such service. Mr. 
Joseph Hawkins is a native of Vermont, while the other mem- 
bers of the firm are Massachusetts men by birth and tiaining, 
and are all well and favorably known in the mercantile and 
trade circles of the city and throughout New England, as earn- 
estly devoted to the interests of their patrons, and promoting 
tlie commerce of Boston and its good name abroad with activity, 
discrimination and success. 

JAMES EMERY, JR., & CO., Wholesale Dealers In Fresh, Salt, 
Pickled and Smoked Fisli, Nos. 17, 18, 20 and :J4 Commercial 
Wharf.— Prominent among the most reliable and old estab- 
lished houses actively engaged in this growing trade, is 
that of Messrs. James Emery, Jr., & Co. The salting house of the 
firm is at Kittery Point, Maine, and tlie factory at Bunker's 
Wliarf, East Boston, This business was established forty years 
ago by Brown, Seavey & Co.. and was continued by them till July, 
1887, wlien the present firm succeeded to tlie management. The 
premises occupied are spacious, and are fitted up with every ap- 
pliance and convenience for the successful prosecution of the 
business. The firm deal largely in all kinds of fresh, salt, pickled 
and smoked fish, their goods being unrivalled for quality, relia- 
bility and uniform excellence, while the prices quoted are .always 
regulated by the market. Tliey make a specialty of fresh salmon. 
No firm offers more substantial inducements to the trade, and 
they number among their customers the princip.al fish mongers 
and dealers in all the cliief cities of tlie country. 

EASTERN LOBSTER CO., S. S. Poole, Manager, No. 42 Lewis 
Wharf.— The Eastern Lobster Company, S. S. Poole, man- 
ager, wholesale dealers in live, boiled and canned lobsters, 
is one of the largest establisliments devoted to this particu- 
lar blanch of commercial activity in the city. This widely known 
and flourishing concern was establislied about ten years ago, and 
from the inception of the enterprise the business has grown apace, 
until now it is exceedingly large, extending to all parts of the 
United States. Tiie business premises occupy two 25x75 feet floors 
and are well ordered and equipped with every facility and conven- 
ience for receiving, storage and shipping, while ten or more in 
help are employed. A carefully assorted and immense stock is 
constantly carried. Including lobsters of every description, live, 
boiled, pickled and canned, receiving in barrels, boxes and bulk, 
and the trade of the concern, which is of a wholesale character 
exclusively, is fully commensurate with the name and standing of 
the house. Mr. Poole, who is the sole proprietor, is a native of 
Nova Scotia, but has resided in Boston for many years. 



DS. BURNHAM, Real Estate and Broker in Mortgages, 
Notes, Stocks, Etc., No. 267 Wasliingtoii Street.— But few 
^ conducting transactions in the realm of realty in Boston 
are more widely or honorably known than D. S. Burnliain, 
the popular and responsible dealer in real estate, and broker in 
mortgages, notes and securities, whose ofBoe is conveniently sit- 
uated at No. 267 Washington Street, opposite Water Street, Room 
5. Mr. Burnham has been engaged in this line for more than 
twenty years, and by energy and judicious enterprise, coupled 
with strict integrity in all his dealings, he lias built up a large and 
substantial connection, numbering among his extensive clientele 
some of the staunchest citizens in the community. He transacts a 
general real estate business, buying, selling .and exchanging city 
and suburban property of all kiiuls, while mortgages are nego- 
tiated, aud notes, stocks, bonds and other securities handled, also 
rents are collected likewise, and estates taken in charge, special 
attention being paid to the leasing, transfer and care ot realty, 
while titles, deeds, leases, etc., are carefully and thoroughly ex- 
amined and attested; in short, everything connected witli the 
sale, purchase, conveyance and management of real estate is 
judiciously and reliably attended to. Mr. Burnham is a man in 
the prime of life, and a native of Ipswich, Mass., but has resided 
in this city many years. A gentleman of entire probity In his busi- 
ness relations, as well as sound judgment and thorough experience 
in all that appertains to real estate and kindred interests he en- 
joys the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of patrons through- 
out Boston and environs. Mr. Burnham is connected with a large 
number of cli.arit.able institutions, and has been overseer of tlie 
poor for the city of Boston for six years, and was chairman of the 
committee on the report on outdoor relief, a pamphlet which has 
been largely circulated throughout the country. 

THE ALDEN FURNITURE SPRING CO., No. 63 Charlestown 
Street.— The Alden Furniture Spring Company is not only 
a prominent, but an old established enterprise, having 
been founded thirty years back by Mr. W. E. Alden, who 
is an expert spring maker of extended experience. In 1S84 the 
concern assumed its present title, and the business is still under 
the able direction of Mr. Alden, whose reputation for producing 
the most elastic and durable springs put upon the market is of the 
highest in the trade. The premises occupied for business com- 
prises three upper floors of a tour-story building, 20xa5 feet in di- 
mensions. Tlie manufacturing department is provided with the 
most efficient modern machinery and tools pertaining to the trade, 
and a number of experienced and skilled artisans are perni.anently 
employed. The company are also extensive dealers in excelsior, 
burlaps, casters, twine, tacks, moss, tow and other furniture 
m.akers' and upholsterers' supplies; and of these goods have at all 
times on hand heavy stocks, from wliicli all orders can be imme- 
diately supplied at the lowest current rates. The trade is a brisk 
and growing one, and the business relations ot the concern are of 
a most influential character. The leading manufacturers in the 
city and its surroundings are the patrons of tlie concern, whose 
standing in mercantile circles is an enviable one. Mr. Alden is a 
native and resident of the city. 

CHARLES RUSSELL & CO., Wholesale Dealers in Boston and 
Kennebec River Ice, No. 92 State Street.— This firm have a 
national reputation as wholesale dealers in Boston and 
Kennebec River ice, and have been prominently est.ablisbed 
in the business since 1860. They operate extensive ice houses all 
through tlie state, also one on the Kennebec River. The firm 
gathers its crop of ice from the best sources of supply, and the 
stock can invariably be relied upon as being pure and free from 
all foreign matter. The ample and abund.ant resources, superior 
facilities for securing supplies, and intimate knowledge of the 
wants of the trade, possessed by this firm enable them to conduct 
the business under the most favorable auspices and upon the 
largest scale. Tliey ship by cargo and car lots to all the principal 
points on the coast, and are in a position to offer inducements to 
the trade, as regards both superiority of stock and liberality ol 
terms and prices, that challenge comparison and defy successful 
competition. Mr. Charles Russell, the active member of the firm, 
is a Mas.sachnsetts man by birth and training, of large practical 
experience .and of deserved popularity in business circles. 



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JIIUBBARU & CO., Manufacturers and Proprietors of Hub- 
bard's Deodorizer, and Germicide, No. 23 Court Street.— 
At last a long felt want lias been filled by the inventive 
skill and ably directed Investigations of Mr. J. Hubbard, 
wlio lias in his wonderful Germicide, brought witliin reach of tlie 
world and of suffering humanity a sovereign lueveutative and 
remedy for a long chain of diseases, and the microbic and pesti- 
lential causes thereof. It was in 1885 that Sir. Hubbard perfected 
and first put his Germicide on tlie market. Its sales 
have rapidly grown aud wherever introduced it is its 
own best advertisement. Hubbard's Vegetable Com- 
pound is the most 
powerful, yet benign 
_ - . jiiid pleasant antisep- 

"- ^ ^^'" tic known. It is abso- 

^ lutely free from poi- 

sonous substances, and is in its efiects aud results a 
marvelous power over disease aud the causes thereof. 
It is in a word, tlie annihilator of the insidious and 
offensive emanations and germs, which everywhere 
infest tlie air and under certain favorable conditions 
Mize hold of the system causing disease aud death. 
Cleanliness of person, house and contents is powerless 
to stop the ravages of these disease germs as evi- 
denced in the recent yellow fever epidemic, but with 
the invincible powers of Hubbard's compound, as 
thoroughly sprayed by Mr. Hubbard's improved Atom- 
izer, the destruction of these germs is assured. In a sick-room, 
or for the purifying of sinks, waste pipes, urinals, washbasins, its 
marvelous powers instantly destroy all offensive odors, and 
germs, due to the active affinity of the ingredients forming tlie 
compound for atmospheric oxygen converting it into per-oxide of 
hydrogen, similar in ch.aracter to ozone. Recollect this compound 
neutralizes that deadly enemy of tlie household and school— sewer 
gas ; it purifies the air alike in private houses, schools and public 
institutions, hotels, restaurants and boarding houses, hospitals, 
etc. It is an absolute necessity in every house, aud those inter- 
ested should send to Mr. Hubbard for his descriptive circular, con- 
taining numerous testimonials from pliysicians and prominent 
citizens of Boston aud New England. (Here are a few of its spe- 
cial uses; invaluable to undertakers; in the operating and dissect- 
ing room ; deodorizing offensive wounds and ulcers ; driving out 
mosquitoes ;) for storage warehouse exterminating moths and 
bugs; for protecting furs, feathers, blankets, clothing, etc.. from 
moths. As a remedy it pronijitly relieves and cures catarrli, liay 
fever, colds, sore throat, diplitheria, croup, whooping cough, bron- 
chial pulmonary complaints, for rheumatism, neuralgia, head- 
ache, toothache, earache, cuts, wounds, scalds, burns, sores, 
bruises, bites of Insects, etc., it has no equal, while it is the best 
eye water, when diluted, in existence. This remedy is sprayed on 
the parts affected; it supersedes all stomach drugging and painful 
applications and is at once a merciful remedy and a boon to hu- 
manity. It has the most enviable of reputations and the siucerest 
form of recognition of its sovereign merits is shown in the efforts 
of unscrupulous dealers to sell inferior and worthless compounds 
by declaring they are just like Hubbard's. The public should be- 
ware of imitations and use only the genuine. Mr. Hubbard was 
born in New Hampshire and has long been a popular and re- 
spected resident of Boston, a business man of integrity and energy 
and a keen and successful investigator in nature's storehouse of 
knowledge. 

NATIONAL SUPPLY COMPANY, J. Brodie, Manager, Cloth- 
ing, Dry Goods, Etc., on the credit system, No. 45 Temple 
Place.— The establishment of the N.ational Supply Company 
.at No. 45 Temple Place, is not only a credit to the intelli- 
gent enterprise of its management, but as tlie first of its kind 
marks an era in the business history of the city. In supplying tlie 
public with clothing, dry goods, etc., on the installment system 
this company is the recognized leader. The enterprisingand pop- 
ular manager, Mr. J. Brodie, early in life embarked in business in 
England, and on coining to Boston and foreseeing the advantages 
wliich such a system would afford to the great mass of the work- 
ing cl.asscs, in 1883 inaugurated his present enterprise under tlie 
name of the National Supply Company. His premises, situated in 



the very business heart of the city, are spacious in size and perfect 
in convenience of arrangement. A choice stock of gentlemen's and 
youths' ready-made clothing of substantial make, in latest styles 
and patterns, is constantly kept on hand, and sold at current cash 
prices, and, in many cases, at lower prices than can be purchased 
elsewhere. To those who prefer custom-made clotiiing tliis house 
offers the services of first-class tailors, who make goods on their 
order. A novel part of the system is tlie arrangement made with 
the leading business houses of tlie city in different lines of trade 
to furnish their patrons with anything they may select from their 
varied stocks, tlius practically placing almost everything within 
the reach of those who choose to make use of their credit system, 
which requires a small payment down at the time of purchase, 
and a still smaller payment eacli week until tlie account is paid. 
Tlie purcliaser is thus enabled to get tlie best, at the time most 
needed, in the beginning of the season aud to make payment in 
such a way that the expense is not felt as a burden or inconveni- 
ence. An immense business is done, the store being kept open 
evenings till eight o'clock for the benefit of its large number of 
patrons, who are found in every profession and vocation in life, 
aud who reside not in the city only, but in all the suburban dis- 
tricts. Mr. Brodie is a gentleman wlio possesses all the elements 
necessary to tlie successful direction of tlie affairs of tliis progres- 
sive aud popular house. His experience has made liim intimately 
acquainted with the wants of the public in this direction. He fol- 
lows a liberal, vigorous and pushing policy that insures his con- 
tinued success and prosperity. 

BEN. LE\'Y & CO., French Perfumers, No. 34 West Street.— 
Perfumery preparations have become a very important aux- 
iliary to our present civilization and society, and no refined 
individuals at tlie present day, consider their toilet com- 
plete without the use of some standard preparation in the shape 
of a perfume. Tlie house of Ben. Levy & Co., No. 34 West 
Street, has gained a wide-spread and excellent reputation for 
manufacturing and dealing only in tiie purest and most lasting 
perfumes, tlieir goods and specialties being in great demand in all 
sections of the United States and Canada. Mr. Ben. Levy, who is 
sole ])roprietor, established this bnsines» in 1871. He makes a spe- 
cialty of manufacturing at liis laboratory. Levy's Parisian Cream, 
Levy's perline or liquid pearl and Levy's French cream. He makes 
a specialty of the sablaclie face powder, which lias received the 
highest testimonials from tlie prominent celebrities of the stage 
both in America and Europe. Levy's French Cream is a scientific 
beautifler. It is the result of long observation, careful experi- 
ments, has had the aid of the best French chemist and of a skillful 
skin doctor of Paris. Tliis is stated that tlie ladies may have no 
fear of bad results following its use, as is the case of cheap catch- 
penny preparations, which have been forced upon the market. 
Levy's French Cream is not only harmless, but is positively bene- 
ficial. Mr. Levy lias letters from Marie Eoze Mapleson, the cele- 
brated vocalist, Sarali Bernliardt. and other prominent artistes of 
tlie lyric and dramatic professions, endorsing its claims for recog- 
nition in the warmest terms. They do not consider their toilet 
complete without this article. The price is only $2.00 per bottle, 
or three bottles for $5.00. Sent by express to any part of the coun- 
try upon receipt of price. Levy's Parisian Cream, (Creme Tliera- 
peutique.) A deliglitful preparation for purifying, refreshing and 
renovating the complexion. Its capability of soothing irritation 
and removing all roughness of the skin render it indispensable to 
every toilet. It is perfectly innocent, and can be used on the most 
delicate skin with the greatest safety. Jars forty and seventy-five 
cents. Levy's Perline, or Liquid Pearl. A very fine preparation 
for imparting a delicate and youthful bloom to the complexion. 
White, pink, and cream tinted for brunettes. Price, only seventy- 
five cents per bottle. Mr. Levy's store is elegantly equipped, and 
completely stocked with the finest extracts, colognes, soaps, lo- 
tions, cosmetics, powders, etc., which have been imported direct 
from the most celebrated Paris and London houses. All these 
splendid goods are fully warranted, and are offered to customers 
and the trade at the lowest possible prices. New perfumes are 
constantly added to the stock by every invoice. Mr. Levy was 
born in France. He is highly regarded by the community for his 
skill, enterprise and integrity, jnstly meriting the iuHuential pat- 
ronage secured in this unique industry. 



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CANNING & PATCH, Manufacturing and Dispensing Pliarma- 
eists, No. 109 Green Street.— No department of commercial 
enterprise in Boston is of more direct value and importance 
to tlie community tlian tliat in wliicli tlie practical manu- 
facturing and dispensing pharmacist brings to bear his professional 
skill and experience. The representative and progressive firm of 
Messrs. Canning & Patch was established in 1869 by Messrs. Henry 
Canning and Edgar L. Patch, both of whom are able and highly 
qualllied chemists, fully conversant with every detail and feature 
of tlie wholesale and retail drug trade and tlie requirements of the 
most critical customers. The premises occupied are spacious, con- 
venient and elegant and contain a large and choice stock of the 
finest drugs and chemicals, proprietary medicines of acknowl- 
edged merit and reputation, fancy toilet articles, perfumery, min- 
eral waters, surgeons* and physicians' requisites, and, indeed, 
every article that may be thought of in connection with a first-class 
pharmacy. There is no branch of the drug business so important 
as the careful, conscientious and intelligent compounding of phy- 
sicians' prescriptions and family recipes, and this branch holds a 
paramount position in this establishment. All modern appliances 
have been provided to secure accuracy, and no persons more fully 
appreciate the responsibility that rests upon tliem than Messrs. 
Cannmg & Patch. For this purpose tliey are supplied with the 
purest possible drugs and chemicals, and duly qualilied druggists 
and assistants wlio liave graduated at our pharmaceutical colleges. 
As manufacturing and dispensing chemists Messrs. Canning & 
Patcli manufacture in their well-equipped laboratory many fine 
ofReinals, medicines and preparations for the tr.ade. They are 
proprietors and manufacturers of Patcli's improved pill coater, 
patented Dec. 16th, 1884. P.ateh's pharmaceutical boiler. Patch's 
pharmaceutical still, C. & P.'s fluid extract of malt, C. & P.'s pep- 
sinated emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophospliites, etc. Any 
preparation bearing the name and stamp of Messrs Canning & 
P.ilcli is invariably accepted by the medical profession as a genuine 
article possessing all the qualities claimed for it by tlie manufact- 
urers. Tile trade of this reliable firm is by no means eonflned to 
l{.)ston, but extends tiirougliout all sections of New England and 
■^nv York Mr. Canning is a native of Boston, while Mr. Patch 
was horn in Worcester, Mass. Mr. Canning has for the last seven 
ye;irs been president of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 
and Mr. Patch is now professor of the theory and practice of phar- 
macy, and director of the Pliarmaceutical Laboratory in that popular 
iusLitution. 

MYERS BROS. & CO., Tobacco Manufacturers, A. D. 
Barnes, Eastern Agent. No. 5 Central Wharf— Among 
the foremost houses in the tobacco trade in tliis 
city is that so successfully conducted by Mr. A. D. 
Barnes, as New England agent for the old dominion tobacco 
■works of Messrs. Myers Bros. & Co., at Richmond, Va. Mr. Barnes 
occupies spacious and commodious quarters and has been engaged 
in his present enterprise here since 1883. The parent house at 
Kichmond is one of tlie oldest and largest tobacco manufactories 
in the United States, employing from five hundred to nine hundred 
hands, and producing a superior line of plug and flue cut smoking 
and chewing tobaccos, which have a wide and permanent sale all 
over the country. Mr. Barnes is a native of Lynchburg, Va., and 
a practical exponent of the tobacco trade, possessing a foundation 
understanding of all its details and requirements. The interests 
of the house are represented upon the road by a corps of talented 
salesmen, and the Boston house is in a position to grant advantages 
to customers in this line that .are readily appreciated and rarely 
duplicated elsewhere. Orders of any magnitude are filled with 
the utmost disiiatch. and all transactions are placed on the most 
substantial and satisfactory footing. 

FE. WEBER, Confectioner and Caterer, Nos. 23 to 27 
Temple Place and 33 West Street. — A representative and 
J, highly popular confectioner and caterer in Boston is Mr. 
F. E. Weber, whose elegant and well appointed lunch 
rooms and restaurant are located at Nos. 23-27 Temple Place and .13 
West Street. This business was established by Mr. Weber in 1870 
and was the first establishment of its kind in Temple PLace, since 
■which period he has built up an extensive and influential patron- 
age with the best classes of society in Boston and its vi- 



cinity. His premises are spacious and commodious, luxriu- 
ously and handsomely arranged in all their appointments, and 
fully stocked with a large and varied assortment of the most 
delicious confections,— creams, ices, fancy cakes, etc. Mr. Weber 
is prepared at all times to serve in tlie very best style to order all 
the delicacies and luxuries of the seasons afforded by the marine 
and farm and garden products of this country and Europe, and all 
kinds of meats, game, etc., in season. An important specialty is 
the attention which he gives to the preparation of wedding break- 
fasts, lunch, dinner, receptions, parties, private dinners, and all 
such varieties of entertainment whicli can be held at private 
homes and halls. Accommodation can be given at Weber's for 
large or small parties, while the menu provided are unrivalled 
for qu.ality and excellence. Mr. Weber was born in Germany, but 
h.as resided in Boston since boyhood. He is highly regarded by 
the community tor his energy, promptness and just methods, and 
as a confectioner and caterer has no superior in New England. 
The business is managed at tlie store by Mr. D. P. Wise who has 
had many years' experience and is a gentleman of polite and 
courteous manners. 

LEWANDO'S FRENCH DYEING AND CLEANSING ESTAB- 
LISHMENT AND LAUNDRY, W. Lincoln Crosby, Manager, 
Main Otlice, No 17 Temple Place.— The largest and best 
equipped dyeing and cleansing establishment in the United 
States, is that known as Lewando's French dyeing and cleansing 
establishment, whose principal offices are located at No. 17 Temple 
Place, Boston, and Fifth Avenue corner West Fourteenth Street, 
New York. The following are tlie branch offices and works: New 
York City, 731 Sixth Avenue, near Forty-second Street, 276 Eighth 
Avenue, opposite Grand Opera House ; Pliiladelphia, Pa.. 1409 
Chestnut Street; Baltimore, Md., 16 North Charles Street; Provi- 
dence, R. I., 275 Westminster Street; Newport, R. I., 327 Tliames 
Street ; Boston (Highlands), 2206 Washington Street ; Boston (South), 
393 Broadway; Lynn, Mass., 3 Market Street; Watertovvn, Mass., 
Galen Street. Works: New York City, and Watertown, Mass. 
This business h,asbeen established forsi.\ty years, and the company 
has now fifteen offices and over a thousand agents. The company 
dyes, cleanses and pres.ses in a very superior m.anner, all articles 
of clothing worn by men or women, in fact, everything from tlie 
finest laces to carpets. In dyeing, every color is matclied, while a 
specialty is made of the fashionable sliades. The company uses 
nothing hut the best dyes, and has given for a number of years en- 
tire satisfaction to the most critical customers, as is evidenced by 
the remarkable increase in its business. Mourning orders always 
receive spechal attention, clothing is dyed or cleansed whole, while 
the gre,atest care is paid to feather dyeing, laces, ladies' garments, 
lace curtains, etc., which are turned out equ.al to new. In laundry 
work the same care is taken as in all other departments, while the 
prices quoted in all cases are as low as the lowest. In the French 
dry cleansing department the work is done exactly .as in P;iris. 
The most of the workmen in this department have served tlieir 
time in France. Goods are called tor and delivered in the City 
Proper, Boston Highlands, South Boston, Longwood, Brookline, 
Cambridge, Cliarlestou and Dorchester. The telephone call of this 
office is No. 1393. 

JOHN E. MARSHALL, Manufacturer of Saratoga Potato Chips, 
No. 44 Clinton Street.— This gentleman inaugurated his enter- 
prise here in 1S82, and conducts a large and influential 
wholesale trade throughout New England and the west. 
His business premises are spacious in size, thoroughly equipped 
with every modern facility for insuring rapid and perfect produc- 
tion, and employment is constantly provided for a dozen or more 
•skilled and expert hands. The product is put up in cases of two 
dozen halt pound boxes, in kegs and barrels, and the goods can be 
ordered through wholes.ale grocers or direct from the factory. The 
demands upon the resources of the house are such that a large 
stock is necessarily carried at all times, to the end that no delay 
may be experienced in the filling of orders, while the fine facilities 
here possessed enable the proprietor to place his goods upon the 
market at lower prices than can be afforded by competitive con- 
cerns. Mr. Marshall is a native of the st.ate of New Hampshire, 
and reliable in catering to the demands of a first-class custom of 
which he is the recipient. 



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BOSTON DYEWOOD & CHEMICAL COMPANY, Nos. 106 and 
lOS Milk Street, Coiner Kilby Street.— The importance of 
the trade in dyewoods and chemicals to New England as 
tlie greatest nianufaeturiiig centre on tlie continent in the 
lines of textile fabrics, leather, paper, etc., cannot be overestim- 
ated. Likewise throughout every section of the United States, 
there exists an increasing demiind for nearly everything dealt in, 
in this branch of commerce ; it is thus a matter for congratulation 
that Boston is the headquarters for the leading, and most thoroughly 
representative concern devoted to this trade, viz: the Boston Dye- 
wood and Chemical Company. It was duly incorporated under the 
laws of Massachusetts, in 1868, with a capital of $200,000, the stock 
being taken by leading capitalists and members of the trade. It 
has been ably managed from its inception, and has extended its 
connnercial relations all over the world. Tlie company exports 
and imports upon the most extensive scale, and likewise manu- 
factures full lines of dyewood liquors and extracts, of superior 
quality. It imports logwood, fustic, camwood, redwood, etc., deals 
in acids of all kinds, soda, ash, borax, brimstone, etc., etc. It is a 
leading importer of cochiueal, cutch, gambler, madder, indigo, 
sumac, etc., likewise scores of other necessaries and accessories 
to the dyeing and chemical trades. They also manufacture log- 
wood, fustic, bark, liypernic and sapan liquors and extracts. 
Quality has ever been the first consideration, while substantial 
inducements are offered as to prices. They sell to the tr.ade of the 
United States and largest cotton, woolen, paper and leather man. 
ufacturers, while they have direct commercial relations with the 
leading countries in Europe, Canada, China, South Aiueric.a. Aus- 
tralia, Mexico, and the East Indies. The officers of the company, 
arc merchants of sound judgment and viist practical experience, 
and faithfully perform the responsible duties devolving upon 
them, and have placed the company upon a basis of strength and 
efficiency, that renders it paramount in the dyewood and chein- 
ieals trade of the United States. 

WILLIAM HASKINS & SON, Southern Pine and Cypress 
Timber and Lumber, No. 75 State Street.— In the old es- 
tablished and most enterprising house of William Has- 
kins & Son, Boston has a concern that stands second to 
none in the United States as regards the direct facilities enjoyed 
and development of the trade in southern hard pine and cypress 
lumber, spruce and Oregon pine The well nigh universal demand 
for these woods, has resulted in the growth of the trade to propor- 
tions of enormous magnitude, and no firm has more permanently 
maintained a representative position therein, than the one under 
discussi(m. The business dates its inception back to 1854, when 
the late Jlr. William Hiiskins began cargo shipments of yellow 
pine from Georgia and Florida, to this port. His methods were 
able and honorable and his trade grew rapidly. In IS&i his son 
Mr. W. C. Haskins was taken into copartnership under the exist- 
ing name and style. The Arm has ever had the reputation of hand- 
ling the best and clearest growths of yellow pine timber and floor- 
ing, and cypress lumber, and its relations have grown into inter- 
national importance, as the concern is a direct exporter by the 
ship load to South America, Mexico, Africa, Australia, China, 
Great Britain and Europe. The lamented decease of Mr. William 
Haskins, occurred in 1871, since which date Mr. Wm. C. Haskins has 
continued the business under the old and honored name and style. 
The house owns and controls the product of large and valuable 
timber regions in Georgia, Florida, South Caroliim, etc., and ships 
direct from southern ports to New England and New Y'ork manu- 
facturers and dealers, and to foreign parts. The firm have also 
developed an important trade in northern spruce and Oregon pine 
including superior spars and mast stuff. In every department, 
Mr. W. C. Haskins exercises a close personal supervision. He is 
a lumber merchant of vast practical experience and perfected 
facilities and lias ever retained the confidence of leading commer- 
cial circles, recognized as a representative factor in securing to 
Boston such a prominent position in the wholesale lumber trade. 

EDWARD F. EVERETT, Insurance Adjuster of Fire Losses, 
No. 5 Doane Street.— In reviewing the commercial interests 
of Boston we And no branch of business of more importance 
than th.it of insurance. In it are engaged men of great 
ability, and the cajiital represented is something enormous. Bos- 



ton may well feel proud of many representatives who give their 
attention to this branch of commercial activity. The subject of 
this sketch, Mr. Edward F. Everett, has been identified with the 
insurance business since 1866, from a period when this city was in 
its infancy ,is compared with its present growth and population. 
Mercantile business since that date h:is assumed proportions In 
the same ratio with the growth of the city until now a very ex- 
tensive insurance business is annually traiusacted. For many 
years Mr. Everett was the New England representative of the 
Fire Insurance Association of Eugland, and, since 1878, has 
been a general fire insurance broker and an adjuster of fire 
losses. Mr. Everett efl'ects insurance on all kinds of insurable 
property in any and .all of the leading substantial insurance com- 
panies, liome and foreign, at the lowest rates compatible with 
security. He makes a special feature of the adjustmeutof losses by 
fire where insurance companies are concerned, and in this capacity 
is frequently called upon by the most prominent insurance cor- 
porations to determine damages. His ability and long experience 
well qualify him for these important duties, which are invariably 
discharged to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Everett 
has a neat, well-appointed office at No. 5 Doane Street, first door 
from Kilby Street. The success he enjoys has been brought about 
by the exercise of commercial ability and financial integrity, com- 
bined with a straightforward system of honorable dealing. He is a 
native of M.assachusetts and is a life member of the New England 
Historic Geological Society, and was formerly its recording secre- 
tary. 

WS. L.A.WSON& CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 14 E.xchange 
Place.— The influential position held by Boston in the 
financial world, is chiefly due to the enterprise and 
ability of her leading bankers and brokers, who have 
procured the capital and freely used the same for tlie development 
of the great railway, mining and manufacturing interests of the 
country. In this connection it is a pleasure to make prominent 
mention in this commercial review of tlie city, of the widely known 
and reliable firm of Messrs. W. S. Lawson & Co., bankers and 
brokers. No. 14 Exchange Place. The firm's headquarters are in 
New Y'ork, at No. 49 Exchange Place. The New York office was 
established in 1876, and the Boston office in 1881. The individual 
membersof this firm are Messrs. William Shelden Lawson, member 
of the New York and Philiidelphia Stock Exchanges, Harry A. 
Day, member of the New York Stock Exchange, Fisher Howe, Jr., 
member of the Boston Stock Exchange, and Bennet H. Preston. 
The firm occupy in Boston well equipped offices, with private wires 
to New Y'ork, Philadelphia and Chicago, and their facilities for 
transacting business are of a very complete char,icter. Messrs. 
W. S. Lawson & Co., purchase and sell for cash or on margin all 
stocks, bonds, government and miscellaneous securities as listed 
on the various Stock Exchanges, also grain, provisions, petroleum, 
mining stocks, cotton, etc. Thisfliin h,as been noted for obtain- 
ing early and accurate information as to the state of the different 
markets, and numbers among its permanent customers many 
active operators and wealthy investors. The Chicago correspon- 
dents of the firm are Messrs. Counselman, Day, Schwartz and 
Dupee. 

JR. GROSE, Paper Box Factory, No. 13 Kingston Street.— 
Among the best known paper-box manufacturers of Boston 
can be named J. R. Grose, whose commodious and well- 
equipped factory is located at No. 13 Kingston Street, and 
whose productions are in steady and extensive demand all over the 
New England States owing to the general excellence of the goods. 
Mr. Grose, who is a man of about 55, and a native of this city, is a 
gentleman of long practical experience in this line, and prior to 
starting in business on his own account, in 1858, had worked at his 
trade as a paper-box maker for several years. The factory was 
originally located on Court Street, and was subsequently on 
Chauncey Street, whence the business was removed to the pres- 
ent quarters in 1881. Mr. Grose occupies here four .SOxlOO-foot 
floors, supplied with ample steam power and completely equipped 
with the latest improved machinery, while upward of twenty-five 
in help are regularly employed. The iiroductions include paper 
boxes of every size, .style and variety, both plain and fancy ; and, 
altogether a large and flourishing business is carried on. 



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WM. LINCOLN & SON, Brookline Insurance Agency, No. 
43 Devonshire Street, Near State Street.— Among the 
leading insurance agents of Boston is the firm of Messrs- 
Wm. Lincoln & Son. This firm have been established 
In the business here since 1872, and bring a wide range of practical 
experience to bear, acquired from many years' personal identifica- 
tion with the most important insurance interests of Boston and its 
suburban towns. They now represent some of the leading insurance 
companies in the world, including the following, viz : the Liverpool 
and London, the Commercial Union, the North Britisli.the Fire In- 
surance Association, the Norfolli Mutual, tlie Boylston, the Home, 
tlie Plienix, the Massachusetts Mutual, the Springfield, the Con. 
necticut, the New Hampshire, the Dwelling House, and the Holyoke 
Mutual. Their connections, as is sliown by tJie above list, are of 
the most superior character, and they insure some of the choicest 
property. Their methods are of the most equitable character, and 
they offer undoubted security to policy-Iiolders at the lowest rates, 
wliile they have also achieved a high reputation for tlie prompti- 
tude with which they settle and adjust all losses. This firm are 
also deservedly prominent as real estate agents and brokers, and 
have contributed materially to the development of the interests of 
the city and its suburbs in this important line, and include among 
their customers many of our leading capitalists and investors. 
They are prepared to transact a general real estate business, buy- 
ing, selling and exelianging property, collecting rents, managing 
estates, and negotiating loans on bond and mortgage. All trans- 
actions are placed upon a substantial and satisfactory basis. The 
Messrs. Lincoln are Massachusetts men by birth and education, 
members of tlie Board of Underwriters, and gentlemen of the 
highest reputation and standing in social, business and flnanciiil 
•circles. 

JOHN P. DALE & CO., Publishers and Bookbinders, No. 17 
Boylston Street.— One of the best known among the business 
houses in this city is that of the firm of John P. Dale & Co., 
publishers and bookbinders,whieh is located at No. 17 Boyls- 
ton Street. It was established in 1872 by Jackson Dale & Co., who 
continued It about a year when the present firm was formed, and 
the business has since been vigorously prosecuted, the facilities 
increased and the operations extended. The premises are 50x100 
feet in extent and tliorougiily adapted for the business, and in me- 
chanical equipment cannot be excelled. Besides twelve presses 
operated by steam power, there are cutting and ruling machines, 
and all the essentials necessary for executing the finest book and 
general work by the accessories of all the arts, identified with 
bookbinding, and also special machines and appliances required 
for the purposes of binding books. From thirty to forty practical 
bookbinders are employed about the establishment, which we may 
safely say, is one of tlie largest and most complete of the kind in 
the city, and that tlie facilities and conveniences for the prompt 
and accurate execution of work are unequalled and tlie position 
it occupies is such as to require no comment. Mr. John P. Dale 
who is at the Iiead of the business, is a native of England and an 
old-time citizen of Boston, and has been identified witli the busi- 
ness of the publisher and bookbinder for more than thirty years. 

WARNEK & JARVIS, Importers and Dealers in all kinds of 
Salt, Nos. 214 State Street, and 57 Commerce Street.— Tlie 
wholesale salt trade of Boston owes very much of its 
important character and growing magnitude to tlie en- 
terprise and ably directed efforts of tlie house of Messrs. Warner 
& Jarvls and their predecessors. Tho senior partner, Mr. B. H. 
Warner, went as salesman with Messrs. Clark & Baker, one of the 
oldest houses in the trade, in 1853. Mr. Baker retired in 1867, sub- 
sequently Mr. Warner was admitted into copartnership under the 
name and style of Messrs. A. P. Clark & Co. He continued thus 
until 1870, when he retired, and embarked in business upon liis 
own account. The following year, Mr. Freeman, who had been 
senior of the firm of Freeman & Sears entered into copartner- 
ship with him, thus continuing up to the spring of 1888. when the 
decease of Freeman occurred. Mr. T. Jarvis, who had been con- 
nected with the firm from 1807 and liad been partner in the house 
of Warner & Freeman, continued with Mr. Warner since May, 
1888, under the style of Warner & Jarvis, and have a trade devel- 
oped of the most desirable character. They are direct importers 



of Liverpool dairy salt ; Turks Island salt and all other foreign 
qualities. They also handle Onondaga and western salt and offer 
substantial inducements to purchasers and the trade in cargo and 
round lots. They are leading manufacturers of double refined 
dairy and table salt in constant demand with the grocery and 
dairy trade and of exceptional purity and high quality. Any salt 
bearing the brand of Messrs. Warner & Jarvis can be relied on to 
give entire satisfaction and prove profitable to keep in stock. The 
firm occupy an entire flve-story brick building at No. 214 State 
Street, extending through the block to No. 57 Commerce Street, 
and here at all times is carried full lines of their fine salt for 
domestic and dairy use. They have large warehouse facilities 
elsewhere, including 22,000 feet of floor space at Mystic Wharf, and 
employ from twenty to eighty hands according to season and 
demands of trade. The firm are in every way thoroughly repre- 
sentative of Boston's best commercial interests. Mr. Warner is a 
native of this city and has from his youtli up been actively identi- 
fied with the trade in which he has achieved such success. Mr. 
Jarvis was born in Brewster, Mass. 

WILLIAM C. FRENCH, Ash and Maple Bedsteads, Folding 
Cribs, Etc., Nos. 80 to 84 Fulton Street.— This business 
was established twenty-six years ago by the present 
proprietor, who has since built up one of the largest in- 
dustries of the kind in New England. The premises occupied 
comprise two spacious flve-story and basement buildings, with 
well equipped and commodious salesrooms. The factories are 
equipped with the latest improved machinery and appliances, and 
furnish constant employment to 120 skilled workmen. Mr. French 
inanufactures extensively a very popular line of ash, maple, 
black walnut and birch bedsteads, platform rocking cribs, folding 
cribs, rocking and swing cradles. These good are unrivalled for 
qu.ality of materials, finish, elegance and uniform excellence by 
those of any other contemporary house in the trade, wliile the 
prices quoted in all cases necessarily attract the attention of close 
and careful buyers. Mr. French keeps constantly on hand an 
immense stock and can fill the largest orders quicker than any 
other house in the trade in New England. His trade now extends 
throughout all sections of the United States, and he also exports 
largely to Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South 
America, Europe and South Africa. Mr. French was born in 
Lowell, Mass. Dealers and large buyers who are desirous of 
obtaining the most desirable bedsteads, etc., should not fail to ex- 
amine carefully the stock at this establisliment, which offers 
advantages in goods and prices, very difBcult to be duplicated else- 
where. 

CN. HOLLIS, Commission Merchant, Mutton, Lamb and 
Veal, No. 54 North Market Street.— The commission trade 
, in meat supplies in Boston is an industry of very large 
and superior importance. Few, except those actually 
engaged in it, or connected with it, are aware of the immense 
aggregate value invested or the number of prominent merchants 
engaged in it. A leading house in this line of enterprise deserv- 
ing of sjiecial recognition in this work on the city's commercial 
and manufacturing industries, is that of Mr. C. N. Hollis, of No. 
54 North Market Street. This business was organized in 1873, by 
the present projirietor's father, the late Mr. E. A. Hollis, who died 
in 1885. Mr. C. N. Hollis. who then succeeded to the business, has 
developed a trade of large volume both in the city and its suburbs. 
The premises occupied comprise a basement, 20x60 feet in dimen- 
sions, and this is equipped with cold storage for perishable goods 
and with all other appliances and conveniences essential to tlie 
facilitating of business. Mr. Hollis conducts a general commis- 
sion trade in mutton, lamb and veal, and is in daily receipt of 
consignments from the most reliable sources of supply. The stock 
is consequently always kept fresh and choice, and tlie prices are 
put at a point to ensure quick sales. Prompt returns are made to 
consignors, and Mr. Hollis has a reputation second to that of no 
other commission merchant in tlie trade. The sales are exclusively 
wholesale, and retailers find it to their interest to place their 
orders with this enterprising house. Mr. Hollis is a native of 
Brighton, Mass., and is held in the highest repute for his business 
activity and honorable methods which have won for him fame in 
mercantile circles. 



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GEO. V. YENETCHI, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Wines 
and Liquors, Nos. 142 and 144 Blackstone Street. — In Boston, 
tlirougliout New England, and a wide-spreadjconnection 
rlscwlicre, the name of Yenetchi is loolicd upon as a verit- 
able trade marli— a guarantee of quality, that is so fully borne out 
by tlie experience of consumers, that tlie trade conducted by Mr. 
Ceorge V. Yenetchi has upon the legitimate basis of supply and 
demand attained proportions of enormous magnitude. This is an 
old and honored concern. It was founded away back in 1830 by 
Mr. Horatio Hammond, one of the old and respected school of 
New England merchants. He was succeeded by the firm of 




view to give accurate information in regard to the substantial and 
reliable corporations, which have so long afforded complete pro- 
tection to their policy holders. Prominent among the number thus 
referred to is the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Company, whose 
principal offices are situated at No. 8 Exchange Place. This com- 
pany was duly incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 
1846, since which period it has secured a liberal and ppim.Tnent 
patronage in all sections of the state. It is ably officered, and its 
directors are gentlemen, who are highly regarded in commercial 
and financial circles for their prudence and just methods. The list 
is as follows: H. C. Bigelow, president; J. W. Peabody, secretary. 
Directors: H. C. Bigelow, Dedham; Granville Fuller, Boston; J. 
N. Bacon, Newton ; Life Baldwin, Boston ; Henry Baldwin, Boston ; 
Herman Bird, Cambridge; S. N. Davenport, Boston; E. C. Spar- 
hawk, Boston; Jessie Gould, Chelsea; Leon;ird Huntress, Jr., 
Lowell; Arthur Anthony, Fall River; Leonard Winch, Natick. 
The company's semi-annual statement June 30th, 1888, shows its 
affairs to be in a most flourishing condition :- Number of policies in 
force. 13,729; amount of property insured thereby, $22,692,598.00. 
Casli assets, $.324,109.09; contingent liability, $308,377.57; available 
assets, $632,4S6.66. Reserved for reinsurance, $154,188.78 ; unsettled 
losses, $689.00; total, $154,877.78. Cash surplus over all liabilities, 
$169,'331.31. Increase of cash fund during last six months, $9,041.95. 
Its condition is a guarantee of its ability to meet promptly all 
claims, and at tlie same time to carry its policies upon terms most 
favorable to tlie assured. One class of property only,— viz., dwel- 
lings, private barns, ,and contents of each,— is insured; and an 
equality of risk is thereby maintained among its policy holders. 
Promptness and courtesy to both agent and assured are practised 
in the conduct of its business, and a careful attention paid to the 
selection of its risks. This company pays for damages caused by 
lightning, though no marks of fire are visible. Tlie following divi- 
dends are now being paid: on five years' policies, sixty per cent., 
on all other policies, forty per cent. Mr. H. C. Bigelow, the presi- 
dent, has lield office since 1878. He is one of our best known in- 
surance men. and is highly esteemed in business circles for his 
energy, ability and integrity. Mr. J. W. Peabody, the secretary, has 
held his important position for the last eighteen years. 



Messrs. Ralph Snni i .. ,iinl . hi i ii i-ing merchants and 

with whom, Mr. Geur;;.- \. \enetohi,a native of that cradle of 
nations, the ancient Hellas, or modern Greece, and which has pro- 
duced so m.any distinguished merch.ants, became their eonfiden- 
ti.al book-keeper and eventually business manager. In 1870 he be- 
came sole proprietor and has during the intervening period 
gre:illy enlarged and extended the business. The fine four-story 
and basement building, Nos. 142 and 144 Blackstone Street is 
jccnpied, and where purchasers at wholesale can best satisfy 
their requirements. Mr. Yenetchi carries constantly in stock the 
oldest and choicest vintages of sherries, ports, maderias. Piper 
Heidsieck, Roederers and other dry, superb clianipagnes ; also 
cordials and liquors, gins and brandies, including such famous 
brands as Anchor and Schredain gins, and Martelle.and Hennesssys 
brandies. In all the above this stock is not limited (like so many) 
to a few vintages but is a wide and comprehensive one, containing 
many old and mellowed wines and brandies, difficult to obtain. 
This is recognized headquarters for pure old bourbon and rye 
whiskies. Mr. Yenetchi carries the best brands, including from his 
lengthy lists, such standards as old crow, ashland, old crown and 
Keller's old superior bourbon, nionticello, hermitage, and astor 
sour mash rye whiskies; he also carries the most celebrated 
brands of New England and Jamaica rums, California wines, etc. 
These goods are popular for medicinal purposes and sell largely to 
druggists, as well as to hotels, restaurants and retailers. Mr. 
Yenetchi also does a heavy case trade with families, shipping, etc. 
In cigars, he carries the fine hand made Magnolia brand, anil the 
justly famous Vorcella luxury, the finest clear Hav:ina filled cigar 
found on this market— at $50 per 1,000. 

CITIZEN.S' MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., H. C. Bigelow, Presi- 
dent, J. W. Peabody, Secretary, Office, No. S Exchange Place. 
—The history of the rise and progress of the leading fire in- 
surance companies, doing business in the City of Boston is 
one of the most interesting topics to mercliants and property 
owners, and thus a careful effort is made in this commercial re- 



CHARLES F. RAND, Auctioneer, Appraiser, Insurance and 
Real Estate Agent ; Boston Office, Room 23, No. 113 Devon- 
shire Street; Newton Office, No. 417 Centre Street.— The 
real estate agent in Boston and its suburban towns has, at 
the present day, opened before him an ample field for enterprise 
and usefulness, and many of the most influential and energetic 
citizens are engaged in tliis important business. Prominent among 
the number thus referred to is Mr. Charles F. Rand, the well-known 
auctioneer, appraiser and real estate agent, who makes a specialty 
of Newton property, and whose Boston office is located at No. 113 
Devonshire Street, Room 23, where he is to be found from 10 to 11.30 
a. m. This gentleman has been established in the business since 
]a52, and by faithful, conscientious zeal for the best interest of his 
customers, has longen joyed the confidence of the community and se- 
cured a very superior clientele. He is familiar with bott present.and 
prospective values of realty in and around the city, and has always 
on his books many desirable bargains, including business, residen- 
tial and manufacturing sites, for sale, to let or exchange. The large 
line of property in Newton, which he handles, is .absolutely perfect 
as regards its title and all realty dealt in through him may be relied 
npon as a safe investment. Both Boston and suburban property is 
offered for cash or on instalments to suit tlie purchaser. Mr. Rand 
possesses unsurpassed facilities for the prompt negotiation of loans 
onbondormortg,age, and is, in this branch of his business of the ut- 
most service to both borrower and lender, securing to the one 
ample funds with which to extend his enterprise, and to the other 
a profitable and perfectly safe investment. His Newton office, at 
No. 417 Centre Street, opposite the Public Library is one of the fin- 
est in New England. It is supplied with all modern appliances 
for the prosecution of his business, including a stenographer and 
type-writer, also has telephone connections with Boston .and su- 
burban places; his telephone call is, Newton 28-3, The walls of 
his office are hung with maps and photographs of estates for sale, 
while his table is loaded with atla.sesof Boston, Brookline, Newton, 
and other places in the vicinity, making this one of the most com- 
plete offices for the business in New England. 



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AMERICAN LOAN & TRUST COMPANY, S. E. Peabody, Presi- 
dent pro tern, E. A. Coffin, Treasurer, No. 55 Congress Street. 
— Tliis company was duly incorporated in 1881 under tlie 
laws of Massaeliusetts witli a paid up capital of $100,000, and 
its surplus fund and undivided profits now amount to $174,876.27. 
Tliis institution is one tliat affords tlie most complete protection 
and security to its patrons, and for safety, solidity and a perfect 
system of responsibility is a peer of any similar corporation in the 
United States. Tlie management of tlie American Loan & Trust 
Company is in the hands of prudent and experienced business men, 
whose names are thoroughly familiar throughout financial and 
commercial circles, as those of honorable and capable citizens. 
They are as follows: Directors, Oliver Ames, Elisha Atkins, Isaac 
T. Burr, B. P. Cheney, F. Gordon Dexter, D. P. Kimball, Thomas 
Niekerson, R. E. Robbins, Fred. L. Anie;?, John Q. Adams, A. L. 
Coolidge, Henry D. Hyde, George C. Lord,Wm. Miiiot, Jr.,S. E. Pea- 
body, and Alexander H. Rice. Officers, S. E. Peabody, president 
pro tern ; N. W. Jordan, acutary ; E. A. Coffin, treasurer. This com- 
pany receives depositssubjecttocheck, allowing interest thereon, 
and is prepared to extend to its patrons all the facilities for busi- 
ness that may be required of a banking corporation. It receives 
money payable at fixed times, and allows interest at special rates, 
while it htans money upon approved collateral ; is a legal depos- 
itory for administrators, executors, assignees, trustees and guardi- 
ans; acts as trustee under mortgages for railroads and other cor- 
porations ; transfer agent and registrar of stocks and bonds ; finan- 
cial or other agent tor municipalities and corporations, i)aying 
bonds, coupons, dividends, etc. Mr. E. A. Coffin, tlie treasurer, 
and Mr. N. W. Jordan, the actuary, have been with tlie company 
since 1881. They are able and experienced officers with every 
necessary qualification for their important and responsible posi- 
tions. Mr. S. E. Peabody, the president pro tem. is a gentleman 
whose ability and integrity is widely known in the financial world. 
The statement of the condition of the American Loan & Trust 
Company, rendered October 21, 1888, shows its allairs to be in a most 
substantial and favorable state. 

BICKNELL & ROBINSON, Fire Insurance Agents and 
Brokers, No. 82 Water Street.— Tliis deservedly popular and 
reliable firm was established 1880, and at once bounded into 
prominence and prosperity, numbering among their exten- 
sive clientele many of Boston's leading business men, merchants, 
manufacturers and property owners, while they direct attention, 
by permission, to the following unexceptionable list of references: 
Hon. Moses Kimball, Boston Museum; Sam'l Johnson, Esq., of C. 
F. Hovey & Co., No. 33 Summer Street ; R. A. Stearns, Esq., of R. 
H. Stearns & Co., Nos. 139 and 140 Tremont Street ; Wm. G. Weld, 
Esq., Nos. 42 Congress Street and 6 Commonwealth Avenue ; Isaac 
T. Burr, Esq., president National Bank of North America ; Chas. 
Carruth, Esq., formerly of N. & C. Carruth; Joseph H. Gray, Esq., 
No. 169 Congress Street; Joel Goldthvvait, Esq., of Joel Goldthnait 
& Co., No. 169 Washington Street; Henry D. Hyde, Esq., of Hyde, 
Dickinson & Howe, Equitable building; Ebed S. Ripley, Esq., of 
Rhodes & Ripley, No. 99 Summer Street ; Sam'l Carr, Esq., cashier 
Shoe and Leather National Bank; Hon. John E. Sanford, Taunton, 
Mass.; Geo. W. Pope, Esq., No. 440 Columbus Avenue; Joseph F. 
Paul, Esq., Albany Street, cor. Dover Street ; Solomon Hovey, Esq., 
Hyde Park., Mass. ; George Nowell, Esq., No. 14 St. James Avenue ; 
John J. McNutt, Esq., Wareham Street; Cyrus T. Clark, Esq., 
Wareham Street. Messrs. Bicknell & Robinson conduct a general 
fire insurance business, placing all classes of desirable risks with 
flrstclass companies at lowest rates consistent with absolute 
security; and also represent these stanch and sound institutions: 
Scottisli Union and National of Endinburgh, Scotl.and; Sun Fire 
office of London, England ; Niagara of New York ; Dwelling House 
Insurance Company of Boston; Worcester Mutual of Worcester, 
Mass., and New Hampshire of Manchester, N. H., and Continental 
of New York. Alfred Bicknell and John H. Robinson are gentle- 
men of the highest integrity as well as men of excellent business 
qualities and thorough experience, and were formerly actively 
connected with both the old and new Mechanics' Mutu.al Insur- 
ance Coinp.any, Mr. Robinson having been secret<iry of the new 
company, while Mr. Bicknell who had been the surveyor of the old 
" Mechanics" was the president of the new organization. Both 
gentlemen are members of the Underwriters Association. 



OL. STORY, Scenic Artist, Scenery Made, Painted to Order 
and to Let, No. 109 Haverhill Street.— In these daj's of 
J advanced culture, reflnement and improved tastes among 
all classes of the people the scenic artist, if he is to suc- 
ceed in his calling, must liave a tliorough training, and, more than 
all be possessed of great natural ability and an aptitude for the 
business. That these attributes are possessed in an eminent de- 
gree by Mr. O. L. Story, of No. 109 Haverliill Street, all acquainted 
with him and his woric readily acknowledge, and he has won, not 
only fame, but a widespread patronage. He was born and reared 
in the business, his fatlier before him enjoying an unsurpassed 
reputation for talented and conscientious work and a large clien- 
tele in the same line. Mr. Story was born twenty-eight years ago 
in Charlestown, and is now a resident of Somerville. In 1882 he em- 
barked in business on his own account on Beverly Street and in the 
following year removed to his present premises at No. 109 Haverliill 
Street where he occupies the fourth and fifth floors, each of which 
have an area of 20x60 feet. Every facility is at hand for the successful 
prosecution of the business, and every description of scenic worlc 
is carefully executed with thorough fidelity to detail and brilliancy 
of touch. Scenery is not only made and painted to order, but a 
large variety is kept on hand for hire at reasonable rates. Four 
experienced and talented artists are in constant service, and in 
the management of his business Mr. Story is animated with but 
one aim, to excel in his chosen profession. He has a fine patron- 
age throughout the whole of New England, and this, eacli year 
grows in extent. 

JAMES BLISS & CO., Grocers &. Ship Chandlers, Dealers in 
Cordage, Etc., No. 328 Atlantic Avenue, Head Rowe'sWiiarf. 
—The name of James Bliss & Co., the well-known grocers 
and ship chandlers, has become a veritable trade-mark. 
The business of this widely-known and representative liouse was 
founded nearly fifty years ago by Mr. James Bliss, who continued 
in control until liis death in 1875, when his son, Mr. James F. Bliss, 
and Mr. Israel E. Decrow succeeded as proprietors under the orig- 
inal firm name. They deal both at wholesale and retail in all 
kinds of supplies for vessels, and are also largely interested in 
vessels and the shipping trade. They occupy spacious and com- 
modious quarters, and possess every facility for conducting the 
business under the most favorable auspices and upon the largest 
scale. The demands upon the resources of the house are sueli that 
a very large and comprehensive stock is necessarily carried, to the 
end that no delay may be experienced in tlie filling of orders. 
Each in its special line is the best and purest in the market. Ves- 
sels out of port in New Y^ork, Portland, Phikadelphia, Baltimore 
and other places, are supplied by this house with promptness and 
satisfaction with reliable goods in quantities to suit, and at prices 
which preclude successful competition. Tlie marked success at- 
tending the operations of this house is due to the superior mercan- 
tile connections enjoyed by the firm, as well as to the permanent 
maintenance of the highest standard of excellence in .ill goods 
sold. The copartners are prominent members of the Vessel Own- 
ers' Association and of tlie Chamber of Commerce. 

ALEAVITT, Manufacturer of Church Organ Keys. No. 63 
Charlestown Street.— Boston has long been the home for 
the manufacture of musical instruments. One of the 
most prominent and extensive manufacturers in this 
line is that of Mr. A. Leavitt, who started in business eighteen 
years ago on Tremont Street, where he remained until June, 1888, 
when lie removed to his present quarters, at No. 63 Charlestown 
Street. Here he occupies a floor, 30x40 feet in dimensions, and 
this is thoroughly equipped with all the best mechanical equip- 
ments known to the trade for securing the best results. Several 
hands are employed, and keys are promptly made to order from 
the cheapest to the most costly materials, as desired. Mr. Leavitt 
has built up a very extensive trade with organ builders in all parts 
of the New England and western states, and his facilities for 
promptly and satisfactorily meeting all orders with the most re- 
liable goods at reasonable charges are of the most ample kind. 
Mr. Leavitt has had vast experience in the business, and gives his 
close personal attention to the filling of all orders. He was born 
in Maine and tliirty-flve years ago came to Boston to learn his 
trade. He is now a resident of Lexington. 



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COOLIDGE HOUSE, Bowdoin Square, Win. P. Coiiiee, Pro- 
prietor.— Among the most popular first-class family hotels is 
the Coolidge, centrally located on Bowdoin Square. This 
house is architecturally an ornament to the city, and is con- 
structed in modern style with due regard to the comfort, conveni- 
ience and safety of its guests. It is five stories in height, what 
frontage of eighty and a depth ol one hundred feet, and contains 
one hundred rooms, many of them en suite, so that the require- 
ments of families, so seldom met in a proper manner in fashion- 
able hotel accommodations, are here provided on the most elabor- 
ate scale, and at rates cheaper than would be quoted in houses 
and flats for the same class of accommodations. On the first floor 
is one of the finest cafes in the city, the culinary department being 
presided over by an experienced chef. The hall and stairs are of 
solid marble, and the upper floors are reached by means of a hy- 
draulic elevator. The rooms are all airy and pleasantly situated, 
elegantly furnished. In location the Coolidge is directly central 
to tlie most fashionable sections of the city, to the best stores 
theatres and churches, and is the place above all others for our 
wealthy and out-of-town people to make a home while in the city. 
Witli regard to sanitary arrangements and means of escape in 
case of fire, the Coolidge is absolutely unrivalled. Guests will 
find here every convenience and all modern improvements, while 
the rates of the house are $3.00 per day for transient guests, with 
special rates for boarders by the week or month. The proprietor, 
Mr. Wm. P. Comee, is one of the best known hotel men in New 
England, with a well-earned reputation for enterprise, managerial 
skill and executive ability. 

ALFRED F. CHAPMAN, Editor and Publisher of The Liberal 
Freemason, General Fire and Life Insurance Broker, No. 
22:^ Washington Street.— Boston has always enjoyed the 
reputation of being one of the great intellectual centers of 
the world, and prominent among its literary productions is the 
Liberal Freemason, of which Mr. Alfred F. Chapman is the editor 
and proprietor. This publication is a monthly magazine of thirty- 
two pages, octavo, and was founded originally in 1877 since which 
date it has increased steadily in circulation throughout the entire 
United States, and has become one of the standard publications 
of the order. It is edited with marked ability and its contents 
comprise the writings of some of the brightest members of the 
mystic tie in this country. It is unusually bright, newsy, and full of 
information for tlie craft, while its entire typographical appear- 
ance is most commendable. To those belonging to the order it 
will prove most interesting and instructive, and as the price is 
only two dollars per year, it should be in the hands of every mem- 
ber seeking light. In addition to publishing this interesting mag- 
azine, Mr. Chapman also conducts a general life and fli-e insuiance 
brokerage business, in which he established himself in this city 
many years .ago. He is prepared to effect insurance in all lines to 
any amount according to risks in the most reliable and reputable 
companies in the country and at the lowest rates. Hismany years 
of experience in this line of business has given him great popular- 
ity among those desirous of placing risks in eomoanies which are 
known to be of the very best character. Mr. Chapman was born 
in Nova Scotia in 1829, but has been a resident of Boston since 1851. 



and vicinity, is an accepted authority upon present and prospec- 
tive values, and can be engaged with implicit confidence in his 
ability and sound judgement. Mr. Washburn pays particular at- 
tention to the placing of insurance, and has ever been eminently 
successful in this line, securing payment for all losses arising from 
fire proin])tly and without litigation, and discharging the import- 
ant trusts committed to his care with (idelity and conscientious 
regard for the welfare of his patrons. Mr. Washburn was born m 
Taunton, Mass., and is highly respected in this city. 



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'EKELBDRG & COBE, Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, No. 
280 State Street.— Producing nothing but reliable and Al 
goods, Mekelburg & Cobe's productions have secured a 
firm hold on popular favor throughout Boston and envir- 
ons owing to the uniformly high standard of excellence at which 
the same was maintained. The cigars turned out by this firm are 
of a very superior character in every respect, being made from 
carefully assorted stock, of choice flavor and quality, while none 
but expert hands are employed in their manufacture; their favor- 
ite brands, " M. & M " and "67," 10 and 5 cent cigars respectively, 
being articles of exceptional merit, and as a consequence are in 
steady and growing demand in the trade. This thriving concera 
was established in September, 1867, by Murphy iJIekelburg, who 
were succeeded in August, 1887, by Mekelburg & Cobe, and under 
this style the business has since been conducted with uninter- 
rupted success. They occupy as factory a '25x80 third floor in the 
building at 280 State Street, and have at hand ample and complete 
facilities, while some eight to ten experienced cigar-makers are 
employed. The productions include fine cig.irs exclusively, a 
large and first-class assortment being always kept in stock, and the 
trade of the' firm, which is of a wholesale character entirely, is 
quite extensive, and grows steadily apace. Messrs. Abraham Me- 
kelberg and Andrew Cobe, who compose the firm, are both natives 
of this city. 

SVORENBERG & CO., Gents' Fine Clothing, No. 67 Washing- 
ton Street and Nos. 87 to 93 Hanover Street— Prominent 
J among the retail clothing establishments of Boston, is that 
of S. Vorenberg & Co., who are extensive dealers in gents' 
fine clothing and furnishing goods, and have been established ia 
the business here since 1874. The store is spacious in size, attrac- 
tive in all its arrangements, and stocked to repletion with new, 
choice and desirable goods. Tlie line of ready-made clothing em- 
braces all the desirable grades and the latest styles and patterns 
in the market, while the finer grades are equal in every respect to 
the best custom work, in fit, finish, elegance and fashion. The 
goods have all been selected with rare judgment, while the plain- 
est as well as the most costly possess special points of superior- 
ity. Their assortment of gentlemen's furnishing goods embraces 
the latest novelties in neckwear, and all the standard supplies 
in white and colored shirts, underwear, hosiery and gloves, col- 
lars and cuffs, umbrellas and canes, and general outfittings. The 
lowest prices invariably pievail, and the patronage is large, first- 
class and influential m city and country. Mr. Vorenberg, the 
active member of the firm, is a native of Germany, and a resident 
of this country since his boyhood. 



ISAAC WASHBURN, General Insurance, Mortgage and Real 
Estate Agent, No. 231 Washington Street.— Mr. Isaac Wash- 
burn, the well-known general Insurance, mortgage and real 
estate agent, has been established in business here since 1864, 
and, in addition to conducting a general real estate and insurance 
.ngency, he is the agent of the Massachusetts Real Estate Company, 
which owns many valuable properties: he also represents the Sun 
Fire Insurance Company, of London, England ; is a notary public 
and justice of the peace, and is also licensed to procure fire insur- 
ance in foreign companies not authorized to do business in this 
state. He has a large and influential clientele in this city and 
throughout the New England States, and also does business for par- 
ties in New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri and other states. He in- 
vests money on mortgages, possessing unsurpassed facilities for 
the negotiation of loans; takes the entire management of 
estates, collects rents, pays taxes and acts as agent tor the pur- 
chase, sale, lease or exchange of properties of every description. 
He has a thorough knowledge of real estate matters in this city 



BOSTON WATCH COMPANY, No. 16 Green Street.— For genu- 
ine bargains in watches, clocks, jewelry, etc., no establish- 
ment of the kind in this part of the city compares with the 
neat and well-kept store of the Boston Watch Company. W. 
W. Farr, proprietor. Nothing but reliable and excellentgoodsare 
handled, the Boston Watch Company watch being a specialty, and 
watches are cleaned and adjusted in the most prompt and supe- 
rior manner at from $1.00 to $3.00; while clocks, jewelry and 
spectacles also are repaired in the very best style of the art at 
reasonable prices. The store is compactand tastefully appointed, 
and a first-class stock is constantly carried. Including watches, 
clocks and jewelry of every description ; also, solid silver and 
plated ware, art novelties, opera glasses, spectacles, eye-glasses, 
and kindred articles; special attention being given to fine watch 
repairing, and, altogether, Mr. Farr has a very nice trade. This 
business was established about six years ago by Messrs. W. W. Farr 
& Co., who has since conducted it with uniform success, under the 
original style of the "Boston Watch Company." 



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ROYAL B. LEIGHTON, Insurance, Real Estate, and Moir. 
gages, Boston Office, No. 27 Kilby Street, Room 20.— The 
placing of risks on property and the handling of realty con- 
stitutes, as it is needless to observe, one of the most import- 
ant branches of business, contributing to tlie sum of activity in 
every centre of industry, commerce and trade. And, it may be 
added, in this connection, that t is a sphere of usefulness th.at occu- 
pies the attention of some of the most solid and sagacious citizens 
in every community. Among those engaged in this line in Boston, 
there are few better known, or enjoy a larger measure 
of popularity .and confidence, tlian the gentleman whose 
name stands at the he.ad of this sketch. Mr. Royal B. 
Leighton, who is a native of Boston, and resides at No. 
104 Emerson Street, Melrose, is a gentleman of the high- 
est person.ll inl eerily, as well .as a man of energy .and judi- 
cious entiMiMisi, Willi iliorough e.xperience in .all features con- 
nected with iiisuL'iiiicc and real estate. He has been .actively en- 
gaged in business during the past flftecu years, and has .acquired 
a large and flourishing patronage. Mr. Leighton conducts a gen- 
eral insurance brokerage business,and is the authorized local agent, 
also, in Melrose, representing the followuigfirst-class companies: 
—North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Liverpool and 
f.ondon and Globe Insurance Company, Hamburg Bremen Fire In- 
surance Company, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, American 
Fire Insurance Company, Niagara Fire Insurance Company, Lon- 
don and Lancasliire Insurance Company, Western Insurance Com- 
pany, Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporation. Mr. Leigliton, whose 
office is located at No. 27 Kilby Street, also transacts a gen. 
eral real estate business, buying, selling .and leasing city .and 
suburban property, and also negotiates mortgages and loans. 
He makes a specialty of handling Melrose property, while rents 
are collected .ind estates taken in charge and judiciously 
managed. 

SW. DEWEY & CO., Cotton Buyers, Olflces, No 85 Water 
Street.— One of the oldest established and leading Arms of 
J cotton buyers ;in the southern, foreign and New England 
markets is that of Messrs. S. W. Dewey & Co. Tlie busi. 
ness was founded in 1857, though foi a number of years prior to 
that the late Mr S. W. Dewey, Sr.. had been actively and exten- 
sively engaged in the imported woolens trade. In 1857 his son_ 
Mr. S. W. Dewey, Jr.. came into copartnership, under the existing 
name and style, and from that date devoted their attention to the 
wholesale foreign and domestic cotton buying trade. They early 
became celebrated for their sound judgment, marked enterprise 
and sterling integrity, and developed an .active trade and influen- 
tial connection with leading New England mills and exporters. 
The decease of Mr. Dewey, Sr., occurred in 1873, deeply regretted 
by the large circle of friends and acquaintances, who had learned 
to esteem him during his long and honorable career. In 1874 he 
took into copartnership his brother, Mr. Arthur W. Dewey, and 
the flriu is thus composed to-day. They were foi' a period of six- 
teen years located at No. 45 Kilby Street, and in May, 1888, re- 
moved to their present commodious offices at No. 85 Water 
Street. Here they have the facilities at command necessitated by 
the enormous magnitude of their trade. No firm in the United 
States has such desirable international connections in the cotton 
markets of the world as they. They are direct importers of the 
finest long staple Egyptiiin cotton from Alexandria, and of the 
choicest Peruvian growtlis from Lima. These desirable qualities 
are a prominent specialty of the house, while it also purchases the 
best growths of the famous Sea Island, and other desirable 
southern growths. The Messrs. Dewey are the recognized 
.authorities in their line: no house so thoroughly understands the 
needs of the New England mills as they, and none have such 
perfected facilities for meeting same. 

EP. SARGENT, JR. & CO., Manufactiu-ing Stationers and 
Mercantile Printers, No. .38 Central Street.— Prominent 
^ among the representative firms in this trade is the well 
known and popular house of Messrs. E. P. Sargent, Jr. 
& Co., the well known manufacturing stationers and mercantile 
printers. No. 38 Central Street. The business of this concern was 
first organized in 1880 by Mr. R. Davis, who was succeeded by the 
present firm in March, 1888. The members of the firm are Messrs. 



F. and E. P. Sargent, Jr., who .are brothers, and have had a long 
practical experience in the trade, with every detail of which they 
are thoroughly familiar. They have, since they took hold of the 
enterprise, developed the trade of their establishment veryconsid- 
er,ably, and have attained a liberal and influential patron.age from 
the trade and the public, owing to the unsurpassed quality and 
excellence of their various manufactures and to the artistic 
character of their printing. The firm occupy the third floor of the 
building and their premises are equipped with all the latest im- 
proved machinery and appliances, by means of which the work 
produced is accomplished with dispatch and in the best manner, 
employment being furnished to a large number of skilled and experi- 
enced operatives. There is a full assortment of types for every 
description of printing, two of the most modern printing presses op- 
erated by electric power, and In the book-binding department every 
mechanical requisite of a superior order. The firm make a spe- 
cialty of the manufacture of all kinds of blank books, ledgers,- 
journals, day books, check books, drafts, etc., which in mech.anical 
execution cannot be excelled by any contemporary house in or out 
of the city. Throughout the establishment there prevades a sys- 
tem of order that facilitates the transaction of business, and makes 
the house a pleasant one with which to establish business rela- 
tions. Both partners are natives of Merrimac, Mass., and we t.ake 
pleasure in giving them just mention in this work . 

THOMAS L. OBRION, Insurance Agent and Broker, Office: 
No. 35 Central Street.— One of the most popular and respon- 
sible fire insurance agents and brokers of Boston, is Mr. 
Thomas L O'Brien. whose wide-spread influential connections- 
and ample practical experience render him a recognized author- 
ity in Are underwriting throughout New England. The extensive 
business now conducted by Mr 0'Brionw.as founded in 1873 by Mr. 
Richard Pope, who was succeeded by Mr. OBrion in 1880. He has- 
occupied Ills present offices since 18S5, and is one of the best 
known agents in the city. Mr. O'Brion is the New England .agent 
for the Reliance Fire Insurance Comp.any. of Philadelphia, and 
the local agent for the Insurance Company of the State of Penn- 
sylvania, of Philadelphia, of the United Firemen's Insurance 
Company, of Phil.adelphia; the Commercial of California; the 
Marine, of St. Louis, and the Jersey City, of Jersey City. 
These .are large and powerful companies, ably conducted, honor- 
ably man.aged .and whose policies are clear, positive coutr.acts, 
without ambiguous clauses. They .all luave the enviable reputatioa 
of promptly paying all claims as soon .as adjusted, .and under Mr. 
O'Brion's guidance do a flourishing business in Boston. There is 
no more reliable autliority on the principal risks of Boston and 
vicinity than he, and none more conversant with the character of 
mill and factory risks, etc., throughout New England. He con- 
trols the insuring of large lines of residential and business prop- 
erty and offers substantial inducements as to low rates and absolute 
security. Mr. O'Brion was born in PortLand, ]\Iaine, and has 
been actively engaged in the fire insurance business for twenty- 
two years past. He is a popular member of the Underwriters' 
Association, and a valued representative of a business of direct 
vital importance to every property owner and householder in Bos- 
ton and New England. 

GEO. S. PARKER, Real Estate and Mortgages No. 27 Kilby 
Street.— A successful and well conducted real estiite agency 
is that carried on by Mr. Geo. S. Parker, at No. 27 Kilby 
Street. Mr. P.arker, who is a young man and comes from 
W.ashington, D. C, has been a resident of Boston for the p.ast five 
years and been identified with the real est.ate business most of that 
time. In February. 1888, he established his present flourishing 
agency, and has succeeded in a comparatively short time in mak- 
ing first-cl.ass business connections throughout the city. Mr. 
Parker does a general real estate business, negotiating for the sale 
and purchase of city and country property of all kinds, effecting 
exchanges, procuring loans on bond and mortgage .and taking 
charge of property, looking after repairs, collecting rents, paying 
taxes, etc. His clients are numerous and repose the greatest con- 
fidence in his judgment .and energy which he has displayed in the 
various transactions he has carried out. Mr. Parker is a good 
judge of Boston realty and will be found a safe man to deal with 
in the purchase, sale or negotiation of real estate. 



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GEO.E.MESSER &CO.,Maniifaeturers of andDealersinall kinds 
of Black Walnut and Amber Fancy Work. No. 73 Haverhill 
Street.— Not in many of the industrial arts has there been 
made mare progress of late years than in the sphere of 
activity devoted to the production of fancy work in black walnut 




racks and kindred articles of household use, turned out in a lead- 



ing concern in this line in these days are marvels of artistic skill 
and things of beauty, truly. A noteworthy Boston firm engaged in 
this branch of industrial activity is that of Geo. E. Messer & Co , 
(successor to Messer & Higgins) manufacturers of and dealers in 
all kinds of black walnut and amber fancy work, No. 73 Haveriiill 
Street, whose productions have secured an enduring hold on popu- 
lar favor throughout the entire country, owing to their general ex- 
cellence. The .articles produced here are of exceptional merit, 
being noted for their beauty of design, exquisite workmanship and 
elegant finish and .as a consequence, they are in steady and ex- 
tensive demand in the trade all over the United States. This 
thriving enterprise w.as started in 1S70 by Eldrige Walcott, who was 
succeeded by Messer & Higgins, who were in turn succeeded by 
Geo. E. Messer & Co.. by whom the business is conducted at the 
present time, They occupy ,as factory and salesroom a 40x80 foot 
(second) floor, with ample steam power and complete manufactur- 
ing facilities, while twelve expert workmen are employed. The 
lirm manufacture everything in the line of black walnut and am- 
ber fancy work, including artistic parior brackets in all sizes and 
designs, superb book and toilet cases, exquisite slipper backs and 
pockets, handsome bouquet and marble-top tables, whatnots, coat 
and hat rack, towel nacks, paper and music racks, view holders, 
comb cases and a gre.at variety of ornamental articles of interior 
decoration, while a large and complete assortment is kept in stock 
always; and all orders for the trade are promptly and reliably 
filled. Mr. Messer, who is the sole proprietor, is a man of long, 
practical experience and skill in this line, and ranks among the 
foremost in his business in the country. All these goods are 
shipped, knocked down, and can be packed in a small compass, 
making freight charges very light. 

JB. DI.XON & CO., Wholesale and Commission Dealers in 
Lumber and Shingles, No. 11 Central Street.— Few .among 
, the varied and vast business interests in this city at the 
present day are of greater importance than the great 
branch of tr.ade devoted to the wholesale handling of lumber. 
The transactions in this product of the forest, both rough and 
dressed, in Boston, in the 'course of a year, aggregate immense 
magnitude, .and represent hundreds of millions of dollars. Among 
the young firms contributing most extensively to the sum of com- 
mercial activity in this line in the city can be named that of J. B. 
Dixon & Co., wholesale and commission dealers in lumber, shin- 
gles, etc.. No. n Central Street, and which, although a compara- 
tively new concern— having been established in 1883— has already 
attained a degree of prominence and achieved a measure of suc- 
cess vouchsafed to very few among the lumber firms that have 
coiTie to the front within a decade or two in Boston. They handle 
everything in the line of Michigan and Canada pine, also 
oak, plain and quartered; sycamore, plain and quartered; pine 
shingles, sixteen and eighteen inches, cedar sliingles, sixteen and 
eighteen inches, brown ash, grey ash, white .ash, basswood, beech, 
red birch, butternut, cherry, Cottonwood, rock elm, soft elm, white, 
wood and all kinds of lumber cut to order. The firm do a wholesale 
business exclusively, shipping direct to dealers and large consum- 
ers from the mills, and their tr.ade, which extends to all parts of 
the New England States, is of a very substantial character. Mr. 
Dixon is a young man of energy, enterprise and ample experience. 

WE. WOODWARD, Architect, No. 82 Water Street.— One 
of Boston's oldest and foremost architects, is W. E. 
, Woodward, who enjoys a high reputation for skill and 
reliability. Mr. Woodward is a Bostonian by birtli 
and residence. He is a thoroughly competent architect, of long 
and varied experience in his profession, and is a complete master 
of the art in all its branches, and is a well-known member of 
the Architects .\ssociation of Boston. He has been established 
upwards of thirty-flve years, and during this entire period has 
maintained an excellent st.anding in his profession, having niany 
noteworthy pieces of work to his credit in and around the city ; one 
of the l.ast structures of note erected by him, being the Quincy 
House, Plans for all classes of buildings, dwellings, churches, in- 
stitutions, hotels, business blocks, etc., are made in the most re- 
liable and superior manner, in every instance, designs, specifica- 
tions, etc., being promptly furnished, while construction is super- 
intended personally, when desired. 



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EDWIN MORSE, Billiard Table Manufacturer, Salesroom, 
Koom 8, No. 3 Tremont Row— Tlie increasea attention given 
to the production of an improved class of work in tlie line 
of billiard and pool tables has, in the nature of things, re- 
sulted in notable progress being made in this direction of late 
years. What with inventions, improvements and the development 
of mechanical skill, something akin to perfection itself has been 
attained by some of our billiard-table manufacturers. Among 
tliose referred to may be mentioned tlie name of Edwin Morse, of 
this city, whose salesroom is located .at No. 3 (Room 8) Tremont 
Row, with factory at Athol, M.ass., and whose productions have se- 
cured an enduring hold on popular favor owing to the uniformly 
higli standard of excellence at which the same are maintained. 
The tables manufactured by this gentleman are of a very superior 
character alike in beauty of design, construction, durability and 
finish; being all furnislied with Samuel May's celebrated patent 
steel spring cusliion (the best made, and warranted for ten years), 
and for general excellence are unsurpassed by any articles of the 
kind to-day upon the market- This flourishing business was estab- 
lished in 1878 and no better evidence of tlie superiority of the work 
turned out could be offered than the unequivocal success that has 
attended this enterprise from its inception. Tlie factory is a com- 
modious well-eiiuipped concern, wliere some tifteen expert workmen 
are employed, while at the salesroom, at No. 3 Tremont Row, an 
efficient corps of salesmen are in attendance. The productions in- 
clude billiard and pool tables in every size, style and variety, a 
complete and elegant assortment being always carried on hand, 
and the trade, which is large and constantly glowing, extends 
throughout New England and also to New York State, Pennsyl- 
vania and Florida. Mr. Morse, who is a gentleman in the prime 
of life, and of long, practical experience and skill, was born in 
Nova Scotia, but has resided in Boston tor over thirty years. 

CHICAGO LUMBER COMPANY, Manufacturers of Sash Doors, 
Blinds, Etc, Albany Street, near East Dedliam Street.— 
A successful and representative house largely engaged in 
the inanutacture of sash, doors, blinds and mouldings is tliat 
known as the Cliicago Lumber Company, for whom Messrs. A. H. 
Bolton & Co. are the wholesale agents for eastern New England, 
with offices located on Albany Street at the foot of East Dedliam 
Street. The Boston branch was established in 1S80. since which 
period it lias secured a liberal and permanent patronage, not only 
in this city and its vicinity but in all sections of New England. 
The Chicago Lumber Company are wholesale manufacturers of 
white pine, poplarand yellow pine lumber of all kinds, having re- 
cently, in addition to tlieir immense white pine interests in the 
west, erected large saw and planing mills at Ironton, Ohio, where 
they are turning out about tliirty million feet per annum of poplar 
lumber. They have also perfected arrangements which enable 
them to place long leaf yellow pine from Georgia and Al.abama at 
the lowest prices. In a word, tlie company are prepared at all 
times to fuiiiish anything in tlie way of building material. They 
make a specialty of thick finishing lumber of all grades — dressed 
flooring, siding and ceiling, and have at all times a large stock of 
shingles of different grades, kiln dried for shipment to points 
where freight is an object, A. H. Bolton & Co. promiitly fill orders 
for car load or cargo lots, and guarantee entire .satisfaction to pa- 
trons. All sash, doors, blinds and mouldings manufactured by this 
responsible company are unsurpassed for quality, finish and excel- 
lence and the reputation thus acquired is maintained by carefully 
keeping the grading and finish of their goods to the same high 
standard: while the prices quoted for lis stock is always regu- 
lated by the market. We bespeak for the Chicago Lumber Com- 
pany an increasing trade, as they are prompt in filling orders, re- 
liable in their representations, and honorable in all their dealings. 

WP & S. L. EMERY. Hard and Soft Coal and Wood, 
Wharf, No. 288 Federal Street.— One of the most pow- 
j erfnl factors in the remarkable development of the coin- 
meicial and inaiuifacturing interests of Boston is the 
coal trade. Prominent among the old established and represen- 
tative houses engaged in this business is tliat of Messrs. W. H. & 
S. L. Emery, the well known dealers in hard .and soft coal and 
wood, whose wharf is located at No. 288 Federal Street, opposite 
Beach. This house was founded in 1840 by Mr. Isaac Emery, and, 



in 1853, his son, Mr. W. H. Emery, was admitted to partnership. 
The present firm was organized in 1858. Botli partners liave had a 
vast range of practical experience and possess an intimate knowl- 
edge of the coal business and the requirements of this market. 
Their premises are spacious and conveniently arranged, 
and every modern facility is afforded for the receipt and 
shipment of supplies, and for the storage of the immense 
stock that is constantly carried. The firm conduct an extensive 
trade in the leading brands of anthracite and bituminous co.ils, 
including the best from the Lehigh, Lackawanna and Cumberland 
regions, and tlie resources of the house are such that the largest 
orders can be filled with tlie utmost promptness, an advantage 
that the trade and the public are quick to appreciate. All coal 
purchased of this responsible house is guaranteed to maintain in 
every respect the highest st.andard of excellence and holds the 
front rank as regards the care in its preparation for tlie market, 
coining, as it does, from some of the best equipped collieries in 
America. The patronage is large, first-class and influential in the 
city and throughout the surrounding country, requiring the con- 
stant employment of from twelve to twenty men. and inducements 
are offered, .as regards both excellence of stock and economy of 
prices, wliicli challenge competition. Tlie Messrs. Emery are 
natives and prominent citizens of Boston. Mr. Stephen L. Emery 
has served witli credit as a member of the city council and as 
school committee, and lias been a Justice of the Peace for many 
years. Both gentlemen are known and honored in commercial 
circles for their business ability and sterling probity, and have 
attained a prominence in trade which is accorded only to those 
whose transactions are based on principles of equity and honor. 

DESK EXCHANGE, Office and Library Furniture, Etc. No. 78 
Portland Street, Benjamin James, Jr., Proprietor.— Tlie per- 
fection that has been attained in the furnishing business 
houses during recent years has been of tlie most gratifying 
character, and in one branch in particular has marked advance- 
ment been achieved, and that is in the manufacture of olBce desks. 
The most popular desk exchange, and a leading source of supply 
for this cKass of furniture in Boston, is th.at so .admirably con 
ducted at No. 78 Portland Street. This house is he.adquarters 
for office and library furniture, roll top desks and safes, chairs, 
book cases and copying presses; also, for the purchase, sale 
and exchange of second-hand desks, safes and fixtures, and 
for securing special office fittings to order. The enterprise was 
inaugurated in 1886, the present proprietor succeeding to the con- 
trol April 12, 1888. The premises occupied for the business are 
spacious in size, tlioroughly equipped lor display, inspection and 
sale, and stocked to repletion with new, choice and desirable 
goods. The roll top desks and other specialties of this liouse are 
unrivalled for originality and beauty of design, fine finish and ar- 
tistic workmanship, and recommend their own peculiar merits to 
the confldence and patronage of critical and discriminating buy- 
ers by reason of their mechanical excellence, while bargains are 
constantly offered as regards terms and prices, which cannot be 
duplicated elsewhere. The trade is brisk and lively in tliis city, 
and a heavy and influential demand is ministered to. 

RF. NAYLOR.Real Estate .and Insurance, No. 27 Femberton 
Square.— Among the many engaged in the handling of 
^ realty and the placing of risks on property in tliis city, 
there are few better known, or enjoy a larger measure of 
public confldence and favor, than R. F. Naylor, the popular and 
responsible real estate and insurance agent. Mr. Naylor was born 
in Taunton, Mass., but has lived in Boston thirty odd years. He 
has been actively and successfully engaged in this line for over 
twenty years, and lias built up a large and steadily improving busi- 
ness. Mr. Naylor carries on a general real estate and insurance 
business, buying, selling and exchanging liouses, lots and city or 
suburban properly of every description ; and attends, also, to leas- 
ing, renting and collecting. Special attention is given to auction 
s.ales of real estate and general merchandise, likewise, and estates 
are taken in charge and judiciously managed, while insurance is 
placed with first-class companies at lowest rates. Mortgages are 
negotiated, and loans effected, and, in short, everything apper- 
taining to real estate and kindred interests is attended to in 
the most reliable and satisfactory manner. 



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NC. LOMBARD, Meclianical Engineer, and Solieitcir of Pat- 
ents, Room No. 41, No. 40 State Street.— This gentleman is 
an e.vpert meclianical engineer of large experience and 
higli repntation, and gives slvillful attention to perfecting 
new inventions and to superintending the construction of niacliin- 
ery.when desired. His time is, liowever, mostly tal<en up witli liis 
patent law practice. Possessing a foundation understanding of the 
principles of patent law, a complete and thorough knowledge of 
the rules and practice governing the administration ot the United 
States Patent Office, and an experience of twenty years as a 
patent attorney, lias eminently fitted him for success in every 
branch ot his profession. He is a native ot the state ot Maine, a 
resident of Boston and Cambridge for the past thirty years, and es- 
tablished himself in practice here as a mechanical engineer and 
solicitor ot patents in 1868. His reputation has long been firmly 
established as an able, scientific and successful solicitor, and a 
clear-headed, reliable counsellor in patent law. His practice before 
the U. S. Patent Oflice relates to the preparation and prosecution 
of applications for patents, including the making out ot specifica- 
tions, drawings, caveats, assignments, reissues, designs, trade- 
marks and labels; the making ot preliminary examinations as to 
the p.atentability of an invention, attending to eases in interfer- 
ence, on appeal, and as an expert before the courts, and to every 
other item of service necessary to the complete success ot the ap- 
plication up to the time the patent is granted and issued by the 
office. No attorney is better known at the patent office, and none 
can secure fairer treatment or more prompt consideration of their 
cases. His papers, filed in the interest of his clients, are models 
ot accuracy, wisdom and pertectunderstanding ot the case in hand, 
while the facilities possessed by him tor securing patents are un- 
surpassed by any practitioner in the country. His patronage is 
large, first-class and influential in this city and throughout the 
New England States, and his standing is of the highest. 

J FRENCH & SONS, Real Estate, Mortgages, Etc., No. 160 
State Street.— There is no feature of progress in our coun- 
^ try that assumes an importance equivalent with that ot real 
estate. Desirable and eligibly located parcels of real prop- 
erty are more tliaii ever in demand with conservative capitalists 
and prudent investors, who, in making these investments, rely to 
a large degree upon the superior knowledge, advice and assistance 
ot reputable brokers and agents. One ot the oldest and best- 
known real estate firms in Boston is that ot Messrs. Jonathan 
French & Sons, whose offices are eligibly located at No. 160 State 
Street. Messrs. John D. W. and A. D. Weld French, his two 
sons, are associated with him and are all natives of Bos- 
ton, and prominent and popular in financial and real estate 
circles. The firm do a general real estate business, and a sate 
packed with powers ot attorney tells its character. The house is 
recognized as one ot the best authorities on present and prospec- 
tive values of realty in the city and suburbs, taking the entire 
management ot estates while the owners are enjoying European 
lite tor years at a time. In fact their principal business is the 
care ot large trust properties. 

MCPHERSON BROTHERS, Commission Merchants, and 
Wliolesale Dealers in Flour and Produce, Nos. 204 State 
and 39 Commerce Streets.— The activity and predomi- 
nance ot the Boston flour and produce market is largely 
due to the sterling enter[)rise and business push manifested by our 
leading commission houses. One ot the most widely and favora- 
bly known is that of Messrs. McPherson Brothers, whose splendid 
establishment is located at Nos. 201 State and 39 Commerce Streets. 
This firm are commission merchants and wholesale dealers in flour 
and produce, and have been established in the business here since 
187!. The premises occupied are spacious and convenient, finely 
fitted up and admirably equipped tor handling and storing the im- 
mense stock that is constantly carried. The building contains 
seven floors, 25x80 feet each, and extends through the block from 
State to Commerce Street. The firm carries on an extensive busi- 
ness in the best brands ot Hour and in general country produce, 
and has built up a large and influential trade that extends through- 
out all the New England States. Libeial advances are made on 
consignments when desired, while quick sales and prompt returns 
have always been the characteristic of this reliable and trust- 



worthy house. The firm is in a position to offer every facility 
and advantage as regards the sale ot these staple commodities, 
and number among their customers many large shippers in the 
best-producing districts ot the country, and prominent dealers and 
buyers throughout New England. The influence exerted by this 
house on the flour and produce commission trade ot Boston has 
been ot the most salutary and useful character, and those inter- 
ested in establishing relations with it can depend on receiving 
prompt and liberal treatment and otiier advantages difficult to be 
secured elsewhere. The copartners Messrs. E. R. and John Mc- 
Pherson, are well and widely known as enterprising merchants 
and solid, substantial business men. 

OSCAR F. HOWE, Wooden and Willow Ware, Nos. I and 5 
South Market, and 41 and 42 Chatham Streets.— One of the 
indispensable branches ot trade in all cities, is that ot 
wooden and willow ware. A representative and one ot the 
oldest established houses in Boston actively engaged in this 
useful and growing trade, is that ot Mr. Oscar F. Howe, whose 
office and salesrooms are situated on South Market and Chatliara 
Streets, This business was established in 1830 by Daniel Cummings 
& Co.. who were succeeded in 1853 by Wakefield & Howe, and in 
1857 by N. & J. Howe, and in 1864 by Nelson Howe & Son. Eventu- 
ally in 1868 Mr. Oscar F. Howe became sole proprietor, and in 1877 
purchased the present business house, which had for many years 
been engaged in the wooden and willow ware trade. The premises 
occupied comprise a spacious tour-story and basement building, 
having frontages on South Market and Chatham Streets. The 
warerooms are fully stocked with a superior assortment ot all 
kinds of wooden and willow ware, including pails, tubs, wash- 
boards, clothes wringers, brooms, baskets, brushes, mats, churns, 
kegs, snow shovels, twine, cordage, clothes dryers, etc. All 
goods are purchased direct from the most famous manufacturers, 
and are supplied to the trade in quantities to suit at the lowest 
possible wholesale prices. The trade ot the house extends through- 
out all sections ot New England, Australia, California and South 
America, and is steadily increasing owing to the reliability and su- 
periority of its productions. Mr. Oscar F. Howe w.as born in New 
Hampshire, but has resided in Boston tor the last thirty-five years, 
where he is greatly respected in trade circles tor his enterprise and 
integrity. This popular house fully merits the confidence it enjoys, 
and the pronounced success it has acquired and held for so many 
years. 

H& R. ATWOOD, Planters and Wholesale Dealers in Provi- 
dence River and Virginia Oysters, Nos. 49 Commercial and 
, 56 Clinton Streets, and Nos. 146 and 148 Atlantic Avenue. • 
■—An important factor in the wholesale and retail oyster 
trade ot Boston is the establishment ot Messrs. H. & R. Atwood, 
whose offices and stores are centrally located on Commercial and 
Clinton Streets and Atlantic Avenue. This business which is the 
oldest and largest in the city, was establislied seventy-six years 
ago by David Atwood, who retired and was succeeded by his sons 
Messrs. H. & R Atwood. In 1S88 Mr. H. Atwood retired in conse- 
quence ot ill health, and the business is now the property of Mr. R. 
K. .\twood. The premises occupied are spacious, and are fitted 
with every modern convenience and facility fertile rapid handling 
and perfect preservation ot the extensive stock, that is here at all 
times on hand. In tlie various departments ot his business as a 
planter, wholesale and retail dealer, Mr. Atwood gives enqiloy- 
ment to 200 hands and possesses the best possible facilities tor the 
prompt fulfillment of all orders. He deals extensively in Provi- 
dence River and Virginia oysters, and all varieties of native oysters, 
also in clams, little necks and quahaugs. Only the freshest and H nest 
stock is handled, and the trade of the house now extends through- 
out all sections ot New England and New York. The prices are al- 
ways regulated by the market, and the partners ot this old es- 
tablished and reliable house are unanimous in the praise ot the 
liberality and enterprise ot its management. Mr. Atwood was 
born in Cape Cod, but has resided in Boston the greater part of 
his lite. His long experience in the oyster trade gives him peculiar 
advantages, which he freely shares with his patrons, while his 
high character is a sufficient guarantee ot the reliability ot all 
transactions. The firm still continues under the name ot H. & R. 
Atwood, as heretofore. 



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GLEASON & KIMBALTj, Commission Dealers in Foreign ami 
Domestic Fruits, and Produce of all Kinds, No. 19 Faneuil 
Hall Market, South Side.— The special department of com- 
merce devoted to the wholesale handling of fruits, domestic 
and foreign, and to all kinds of country produce, constitutes, as it 
Is needless to remark, one of the great branches of commercial 
activity in the United States at the present day. The transactions 
in these products in Boston alone reach enormous proportions an- 
nually, while the volume of business affords evidence of steady and 
material increase. Among the firms contributing most largely to 
the aggregate of trade and commerce in this line in the city may 
be mentioned that of Messrs Gleason & Kimball, commission mer- 
chants and Jobbers in foreign and domestic fruits and produce of 
all kinds, doing business at No. 19 Faneuil Hall Market (south 
side). Although this firm was founded so recently as January, 
1888, the co-partners are by no means new to the business, but 
bring a long practical experience to bear upon their enterprise, 
and already they have become one of the most prominent and 
responsible engaged in this important branch of business in 
the city, while their connections, which extend throughout the 
country, are of a most substantial and gratifying character. The 
premises occupied by the firm are commodious and well-equipped, 
and they carry constantly on hand an extensive and carefully as- 
sorted stock of native and foreign fruits of every variety and the 
finest quality, a specialty being made of Florida oranges, lemons, 
pears and grapes ; while particular attention is given to the 
handling of all kinds of country produce. The firm are in daily re- 
ceipt of lieavy consignnients, for which they find a ready and re- 
munerative market, and they make a special feature of furnishing 
immediate returns to shippers. The individual members of the 
firm are E. W. Gleason and Mr. A. W. Kimball. The former was 
born in Boston, and tlie latter in New Hampshire. 

THE MILLER Boot and Shoe Trees, O. A. Miller, Sole Proprie- 
tor and Manufacturer, Office and Factory at Brockton, 
Mass. ; Boston Oftlce, No. 89 Bedford Street. — Like all 
the other devices connected with the footwear industry, 
very notable improvement has been effected in boot trees of late 
years in tliis country. What with invention, improvements and 
the marked development of mechanical skill, a degree of excel- 
lence akin to perfection itself has been attained in the.se useful 
and indispensable appliances within the past decade or so. And 
while on this subject, it may not be amiss to the readers of tliis 
volume to direct attention here to the widely known Miller Boot 
and Shoe Trees, O. A. Miller, sole proprietor and manufacturer, 
with factory at Brockton, Mass., and Boston office at No. 89 Bed- 
ford Street, which are articles of exceptional merit; and as a con- 
sequence have secured an enduring hold on favor among shoe 
manufacturers throughout the whole of the United States. They 
are by common consent the ne plus ultra in boot and shoe trees; 
being, in all respects, the most complete, perfect, effective, and, 
altogether, superior devices for tlie purposes intended produced 
to-day in this country : and are in steady and growing demand in 
the centers of tlie footwear industry all over the land, the sales 
being especially large in New England. Mr. Miller, who is a com- 
paratively young man, and a native of New York State, has been 
established in the manufacture of these trees in Brockton since 
1878, and the unequivocal success that has attended the enterprise 
from its inception abundantly attests the merits of the produc- 
tions. The Miller Boot and Shoe Trees are made with patent side- 
expansion tree leg, and also with patent split or sectional tree 
feet, while eighteen expert workmen are employed in their manu- 
facture, every facility and mechanical contrivance necessary to 
the busine.ss being at hand, and all work is executed under the 
close personal supervision of the proprietor. All communications 
pert,aining thereto, addressed to O. A. Miller, Brockton, M.ass., or 
No. 89 Bedford Street, Boston, will receive prompt response, de- 
scriptive circulars, price-list and references being cheerfully 
mailed to any part of the country upon application for the same. 

SS. LEARNAED, Beef. Pork, Lard, Hams, Bacon, Tallow, 
Etc., Nos. 50 and .52 Faneuil Hall Market.— One of the old- 
est and best known and most popular concerns engaged 
in the beef and provision trade In Faneuil Hall Market is 
that of Mr. S. S. Learnard, of Stalls Nos. 60 and 52. Mr. Learnard 



was born in Brighton, Mass., and fifty-four years have elapsed since 
he founded the business conducted here, and in the management 
of which he still takes an active part. He is, however, ably as- 
sisted by three active partners. One of these is his son, Mr. E. H. 
Learnard, who was born in Brighton, and has befn a partner for 
the past twenty years. Mr. C. S. Hapgood, a native of Concord, 
Mass., has also been connected with tlie firm for a like period ; and 
Mr. R. A. Pettigrew.who was born in Ludlow, Vt., has been a part- 
ner since lf83. The firm have an abbatoir at Brigliton, where tliey 
sl.aughter all their own cattle, etc., and conduct a trade of great 
and growing magnitude. The two stalls occupied by the firm in 
tlie market are spacious and commodious, and are provided with 
all appliances and conveniences for facilitating tlie transaction of 
business, which is of both a wlioles.ale and retail character, but 
chiefly wholesale. The patronage of the firm both in the city and 
suburbs is as influential as it is extensive and substantial. The 
firm include among their permanent customers the leading hotels, 
such as the Vendome, Brunswick, etc., and the stock carried is 
always kept up to the highest standard of excellence. It embraces 
thechoicestcutsofbeef and pork, also hams, bacon, lard, taIIow,etc. 
The stalls are connected by telephone, and all orders are filled 
promptly and satisfactorily, and the firm, while handling the best 
class of goods to be found in tlie market, always keep their prices 
at tlie lowest point. 

CHAS. NOWELL, Real Estate;aiid Mortgages, No. .31 Milk Street 
(Room 18J^.)— Prominent among tlie most successful and re- 
liable real estate agents in this city, is Mr. Chas. Nowell. 
This gentleman makes a specialty of the care of real estate 
and the collection of rents. Some of the largest estates in the city 
and vicinity, are placed entirely in the hands of Mr. Nowell, while 
the owners go to enjoy travel and European life for years at a 
time. Having been a builder and contractor for forty years, and a 
First Assistant Assessor for six years in tlie Back-Bay District, he 
is specially competent to estimate the value of real estate, and to 
give advice in the purchase and sale of the same. He has also 
acquired an enviable reputation as a negotiator of loans on bond 
and mortgage, his thorough knowledge of city realty, and facilities 
as regards capital, enabling him to promptly loan to the utmost 
limit at current rates and lowest charges. He also gives prompt 
and skillful attention to orders for the repairing and remodelling 
of houses and stores, including carpentry, mason-work, plumbing, 
painting, etc., exercising liis personal supervision over all the de- 
tails of the work, and guaranteeing satisfaction in all operations. 
There is a considerable line of selling done by Mr. Nowell, of both 
city and suburban property, every ward in the city being repre- 
sented on his books as well as every cl.ass of property, while he is 
justly recognized as one of the best renting judges in the city. 
He has a large amount of property to sell, rent or exchange on easy 
terms, and is in a position to suit the needs and requirements of 
all classes of investors and house hunters. 

JMcGRATH, Real Estate and Business Broker, No. 28 School 
Street, Room 4.3.— Among the fraternity of real est.ate and 
business brokers, Mr. J. McGratli, at No. 28 School Street, 
is widely known, since his settlement among them in 1887, 
as having introduced the quickest known methods of handling in- 
vestments in real estate and business chances. By his system of 
obtaining tlie fullest information in regard to all property placed 
in his hands for sale, thoroughly investigating everything with his 
keen knowledge of values,and assuming responsibility for his state- 
ments,he has made his office a trustworthy directory, whose merit is 
rapidly making itself known to investors; and his large and rapidly 
increasing patronage, which enables him to dispose of property 
without delay, of course, induces owners who desire quick trans- 
actions to engage his services. As a bright example of the fact 
that, in this progressive age, business enterprise, when backed by 
sound financial judgment, rare executive ability, and upright 
principles, need not grow old waiting f(«- appreciation, the success 
of this gentleman furnishes an inspiring lesson to the young men 
of Boston. His motto when .advising any of his customers to engage 
in business of any kind is, " the right man in the right place ;" and 
many whom he has directed into that path of fortune best fitted to 
their abilities, have for him a high regard, which is the best evi- 
dence of the permanence of his already enviable reputation. 



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S. PAGE & CO., Merchandise and Money Brokers, No. 1 

Salem Street, Corner Endicott Street.— Among the old 
business landmarks in this old section of the city stands 
tlie busy and poi)uIar store of Messrs. M. S. Page & 
Company, on the corner of Salem and Endicott Streets. The Arm 
are general mercliandise and money brokers, watclnnakers and 
jewelers, and dealers in diamonds and otlier precious stones, gold 
and silver watches of every de.-5Criptiou, guns, pistols, clocks, etc. 
It is thirty years since this business was organized, and it has 
during the whole of its long career been a noted business centre 
and commanded a patronage tliat has been the envy and admira- 
tion of others in the same line of trade. In 1858 the firm of Felcli 
& Page was organized and began business at this spot, where it 
has ever since been continued . For eighteen years or more Mr. 
Page has been tlie sole proprietor, and has conducted tlie euter- 




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piisi ui 1 1 th stjleofM S Page & Co The pi emises occupied 
compuse two connecting stoies with uppei loom and basement 
and ample accommodation is affoided for thedisplay and stoiage 
of stock and transaction of business, in which six assistants are 
engaged. The firm buy, sell and e.\change, or loan money on, 
watches, diamonds and other personal property, and have always 
on hand for disposal precious stones of all kinds, watches, clocks 
jewelry of every description, guns, pistols, musical instruments 
in great variety. Specialties are made of diamonds, watches and 
guns, in which a brisk and extensive trade is done, a sale being 
made of over 800 watches a year. Particular attention is given to 
tlu' repairing of watches and jewelry by experienced workmen. 
Mr. Page is a native of New Hampshire, is a pushing, energetic 
and straightforward business man, and is esteemed by all who 
have had dealings with him or acquainted witli him in social life. 

NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Henry R Turner. 
General Agent, No. 5 Doane Street— Among the leading 
fire insurance men of Boston, is Mr. Henry R. Turner, of 
No. 5 Doane Street, a gentleman who has spent all of his 
life in tliis important department of our biisine.ss interests. His 
thorougli knowledge of fire Insurance lias made him an authority 
on tlie subject, and he is considered as one of the best informed 



underwriters in the city. He his been identified witli the insur- 
ance business for the past twenty-flve years, and for a long period 
was secretary of tiie FairBeld Fire Insurance Company of Nor- 
walk. Conn. He is now president of the New England Insurance 
Exchange, and for the past eight years or more he has been the 
general agent of the Niagara Fire Insurance Company of New 
York, for tlie states of Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Rhode 
Island. Tlie company, whose representative he is, is one of the 
largest and most responsible insurance corporations in the east, 
and is extremely popular with business men and property owners 
tliroughout both tlie eastern, middle and western states. The 
seventy-second semi-annual statement given to the public on Janu- 
ary 1st, 1888, shows tlie finances of tlie company to be in a most grati- 
fying condition, sliowing assets of $2.'i37,491.60; a cash capital of 
$.500,000; reinsurance reserve, $1,182,807.28 ; reserve for all other 
liabilities, $218,746.03 ; and a net surplus, $335,938.19. From its very 
inception tlie business of tlie company lias increased witii each 
succeeding year, until it today occupies a prominent position 
among our home institutions, and lias secured the entire confldenoe 
of the business public by its prompt and equitable methods of ad- 
justmrnt, and the libera! yet conservative policy which has ever 
cliaiacterized its transactions. In Mr. Turner, the company liave 
a diligent and valuable representative. He controls a large num- 
ber of sub-agencies throughout the four states named, and cheer- 
fully affords all necessary information on insurance matters to 
those wlio apply for it. He is a native of Norfolk, Conn., and re- 
sides at Auburndale. Personally, he is a gentlemen widely known 
throughout all circles, and merits the high esteem with which he 
is regarded. 

WAIT & CUTTER, Architects, Mason Building, No. 70 
Kilby Street.— These gentlemen established their busi- 
ness here in 1879, and have since steadily devoted 
themselves to solving the complex problems of how 
best til utilize the minimum of building space with the niaxi- 
numi of accommodation, coupled with architectural beauty of de 
sign and with a conscientious regard for the excellence and perfec- 
tion of every detail. Their recognized standing in professional 
circles is proven by their large and influential patronage through- 
out New England and other sections of tlie country, while their 
worth as architects and builders is easily pointed out in our midst 
and confirmed wherever they have been engaged. They have 
erected, among other fine specimens of architecture, tlie armory 
in this city, the court house at Cambridge, Mass.; tlie library 
buildings at Brookflekl, Mass., and Tilburn, N. H., and elegant and 
elaborate church edifices at Nashua, N. H., Easton, Mass., and 
other points, besides numerous private residences, offices and pub- 
lic buildings of their own designing. Orders and commissions re- 
ceive their prompt personal attention, and a corps of skilled as- 
sistants is employed. The co-partners, Messrs. R. Pote, Wait and 
Olin W. Cutter, are both Massachusetts men by birtli and educa- 
tion, and are recognized as thorongligoing and accomplished ex- 
ponents of those measures best calculated to ennoble this metrop- 
olis with an architecture worthy of its commercial fame. 

CHARLES BABSON, JR., American & Foreign Patents, No 24 
Congress Street.— One of the best known and most reliable 
patent agents in Boston, is Mr. Cliarles Babson,Jr., whose 
office is at No. 24 Congress Street. Mr. Babson has been 
identified with the business since 1872, and has been a close observer 
of the meehanical, scientific and industrial inventions which have 
marked our history during the period that has elapsed since then 
In 1880 he established his present agency, opening up connections 
with the principal centres both at home and abroad, and having 
his agents at Washington to carry out his orders in a prompt and 
reliable way. He deals in patents of all kinds, both American and 
foreign, handling all meritorious inventions, securing patents for 
them without unnecessary delay at the lowest rates, negotiating 
for their purchase and sale and generallyacting in the most varied 
manner for the best interests of his clients. He has put 
through a vast number of inventions since he undertook the busi- 
ness, and has given the greatest satisfaction to those who have 
employed his services. His knowledge of patent law Is unusally 
thorough, and enables hiru to advise his clients to the advantage 
both of their time and pocket. 



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WINN, RICKER & CO., Commission Merchants, and Dealers 
in Fruit, Vegetables and Pickles, Nos. 93 and 95 Faneuil 
Hall Market, and Cellar No. 17, under the Market. 
(South Side.)— No branch of commerce in Boston is more 
important and representative in character tlian the commission 
trade in fruits and vegetables. Prominent among tlie number and 
one of the oldest houses engaged therein is that of Messrs. Winn, 
Kicker & Co., located at Nos. 93 and 95 Faneuil Hall Market. This 
Hrm have long been widely known as commission merchants and 
wholesale and retail dealers in fruit, vegetables and pickles. 
The business was founded some forty years ago, under the firm 
name of Winn, Ricker & Co., which has been continued down to 
the present time. Mr. Winn died in 1876, and Mr. flicker had re- 
tired from business three years previously. Mr. J. W. Hill was 
admitted to partnership about 1868, and in company with Mr. W. 
Craig, who was admitted to the firm in 1885, now conducts the busi- 
ness without change in the firm name. Both these gentlemen 
bring large practical experience to bear, coupled with an intimate 
knowledge of the requirements of the trade. They occupy large 
and commodious quarters, fully supplied with every modern con- 
venience for the storage and preservation of the choice and valua- 
ble stock. The firm deal extensively in the commodities named, 
and number among their permanent patrons many of our wealthy 
dealers and largest shippers. They are in daily receipt of fine 
foreign and domestic fruits, including the choice of the markets in 
Florida, California, Baracoa and Jamaica; also early vegetables 
from the leading market gardeners of Massacliusetts and other 
rich producing sections of New England, besides pickles and pre- 
serves of every description suited to tlie requirements of a first- 
class family trade. They are always ready to make liberal cash 
advances on consignments, and are in a position to guarantee 
quick sales and prompt returns. The policy on which the business 
is conducted is such as to meet witli the hearty commendations of 
the trade and general public, and those forming relations with 
tnis trustwortliy firm may be assured of receiving that just and 
equitable treatment which has ever characterized the operations 
of this liouse. Mr. Hill is a native of Massachusetts, while Mr. 
Craig was born in Vermont, and both gentlemen sustain an excel- 
lent status in social and business life. 

GEORGE F. BROWNE, Insurance Broker and Dealer in Real 
Estate and Mortgages, No. 79 Milk Street, Room 2 A.— The 
insurance interests of this great city is most ably repre- 
sented by Mr. George E. Browne, insurance broker and 
dealer in real estate and mortgages. Having had an extensive ex- 
perience in these lines of business, Mr. Browne, who is a native 
Bostonian inaugurated (his enterprise originally in 1868, and mak- 
ing a specialty of insurance in all its branches, coupled with su- 
perior facilities for the purchase and sale of real estate, he devel- 
oped an extensive connection of a strictly flrst-class character 
witliin a comparatively brief period, and is still increasing to pro- 
portions of great magnitude. He occupies a finely furnished office, 
most conveniently located, and which is supplied with every facil- 
ity for the transaction of the business in hand, embracing the lull- 
est and most reliable information concerning the insurance and 
real estate interests of Boston and the surrounding vicinity, and 
with these adjuncts to his business, which are absolutely unsur- 
passed he is enabled to place the largest risks at low rates, with a 
line of our most responsible and popular companies, while on fa- 
vorably located parcels of real estate, he can quote prices and 
terms tliat are unrivalled in the market. His long experience 
with special talents for tlie business, coupled with executive abili- 
ties of the higliest order have given him a iiigh prestige in the real 
estate market, and possessing, as he does, an intimate knowledge 
of the various residential and business sections of the city and its 
environs, investors can rely jit all times upon his judgment and 
advice. Mr. Browne also possesses every facility for tlie negotia- 
tion of loans on bond and mortgage upon the most favorable terms. 

SF. WOODBRIDGE & CO.. Wholesale Dealers in Dressed 
Beef, Pork, Lard, Hams, Tallow, Etc., Nos. 65 and 67 Fa- 
, neuil Hall Market, and No. lllClintonSteet.— Few houses, 
if any, engaged in the trade in dressed beef, pork, lard, 
hams, tallow, etc., in this city, enjoy a more honorable name, or 
cleaner record, than that of Messrs. S. F. Woodbridge & Co., located 



at Nos. 65 and 67 Faneuil Hall llarket. Since this house was 
started here in 1874, it may be said to have reaped uninterrupted 
prosperity, and in 1886 a wholesale department, at No. ill Clinton 
Street, was added to the business. Built upon a solid foundation, 
undisturbed by (lie periodical seasons of depressions whicii have 
crippled many others, carried not away by currents of surrounding 
enticing specul.ation, tliis firm have gone steadily ahead, until now 
it takes a leading place in the trade. The premises occupied for 
trade purposes are well supplied with the necessary cold storage 
and refrigerating rooms for the storage and perfect preservation of 
the beef, pork and perishable articles, while the stock is replen- 
ished daily from the most reputable sources, and is kept at the 
highest point of excellence and efficiency. The business is car- 
ried on ,at both wholesale and retail, and the firm pride themselves 
upon their ability to fill orders in any part of the New England 
States with the utmost despatch and with entire satisfaction. Tlie 
reputation of this house for liandling the choicest stock of dressed 
beef, poiii and other kindred specialties, is absolutely unexcelled, 
and this prestige has resulted in the development of a trade ot 
large volume and far-reaching influence. Inducements are also 
offered in regard to terms and prices which challenge competition, 
and tend to add materially to the popularity of tlie house among 
all classes ot buyers. The firm is composed of S. F. Woodbridge 
and his son, W. F. Woodbridge, both natives of Cambridge. M.iss., 
eminently popular in this city and throughout New England, and 
have always borne an unblemished name in society and business 
circles. 

WHITMAN E. SMITH, (Successor to W. B. Smith & Son,) 
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fruits and Vegetables, 
also. Canned Goods, Stalls, Nos. 103 and 105 F.aneuil Hall 
M.arket.— Mr. Whitman E. Smith by his .ability, enter- 
prise .and energy h.as maintained a front rank in the best class of 
Boston's wholesale fruit and produce trade. His stalls in Faneuil 
Hall Market are always the most attractive of any, with the 
choicest and best, not only of what is in season, but also of hot 
house goods during tlie winter and spring. It is liere that Boston's 
leading caterers can best obtain supplies. The business was es- 
tablished by the late Mr. W. B. Smith, upwards ot thirty-five years 
ago, the firm of Hiland, Smith & Co. succeeded, and about ten years 
ago, the firm of Smith, Avery & Mayuard was formed. In 1883 it 
dissolved and was succeeded by Messrs. W. B. Smith & Son. Tlie 
lamented decease of Mr. W. B. Smith occurred about eighteen 
mouths .ago, since which d<ate his son, Mr. Whitman E. Smith, has 
remained sole proprietor .and has ever maintained the high 
standard of his stock for which it has always been so celebrated. 
His stalls are a most .attractive spectacle, with their complete ar- 
ray of all fruits and vegetables in and out of season. Mr Smith 
handles whatever is choice and desirable ; he has the tr.ade which 
dem.ands the best, and he has the ability to supply it. Fine fruits 
are a specialty, including the product of the large hot houses. such 
as grapes, strawberries, green stuff, etc., which can be had in mid- 
winter. Associ.ated in the business with Mr. Whitman E. Smith is 
Mr. C. W. Smith, his brother, a young merchant of ability and ex- 
perience. They do a lie.avy wholesale and retail trade, supplying 
hotels and B.ack Bay residents, and have achieved a most enviable 
reput.ation both .as tocharacter and quality of product, and prompt, 
liberal business methods. 

OSCAR LOW, Real Estate and Mortgages, No. 75 Equitable 
Building. -Prominent among the leading and popular real 
estate agents in tills city and well worthy of mention is Mr. 
Oscar Low, real estate agent and broker, negotiator of 
loans, etc. Mr. Low is a native Bostonian and at present resides 
in Dorcliester. He is a gentleman of about middle age. and estab- 
lished himself in this line of business origin.ally in 1882. He brings 
years of practical experience to bear, besides an intimate knowl- 
edge of the v.alue of improved and unimproved real estate in ll:e 
city .and tlie entire surrounding city. He occupies a very neatly 
and handsomely appointed office in which will be found every 
facility for the transaction of business together with accurate in- 
formation regarding all lines of properties with which he is con- 
nected. His connections are of a first-class character, and he num- 
bers among his permanent customers many of Boston's capitalists 
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BOSTON & 3L0UCESTER STEAMBOAT COMPANY, E. S. 
Merchant, Treasurer and Agent ; Offlce, North Side, Central 
Wharf.— This enterprising and progressive company was 
duly incorporated in 1870 under tlie laws ot Massachusetts 
with ample capital. It has obtained a generous and permanent 
support from all classes, and excursionists desirous of visiting An- 
nisquam, Bay View, Lanesville, Bass Rock, East Gloucester, Rock- 
port and Pigeon Cove, will always rtnd tliis line the most ple?s'"''t 
way of traveling, avoiding heat and dust. The company's stepm^rs 
whicli are among the finest and best equipped in New England are 
the "City ot Gloucester," captain. E. S. Young, and the "Geo. A. 
Chafey," captain, N. Proctor. The steamers of this line leave 
North Side of Central Wharf, Boston, daily (Sundays excepted), 
This route affords to tourists one ot the tinest ocean trips 
along the North Shore, a distance of thirty miles, with scenery un- 
surpassed. Some of the points of interest along the North Sliore 
to the city of Gloucester are the beautiful islands ot Boston Har- 
bor, including Forts Independence and Winthrop, and Deer Island, 
and also a view ot all the lighthouses of the bay. Passing out ot 
the harbor, the first sight ot interest is the renowned summer re- 
sort ot Nah.ant, its shores and be.aehes lined with cottages and 
summer residences on the one side, and the broad Atlantic on the 
other. Next comes the shores of Swampscott and the quaint old 
town of Marblehead ; then p.assing near Halfway Rock, where the 
crews of the Ashing fleets cast their pennies on their outward trips 
for good luck and safe return. Next in view come Lowell and 
Baker's Islands, off the shores ot Beverly. Lowell Island, with its 
large hotel, makes one of the many beautiful spots of the coast. 
On Baker's Isl.and are the Twin Liglits, so well known to mariners 
entering .Salem and Beverly harbqrs. Tlien comes Manchester-by- 
the-Sea, one of the most fashionable watering places of these 
shores, and one ot tlie many beautiful suburban drives of Glouces- 
ter. Then we have Magnolia, noted for its line and numerous 
hotels, filled to overflowing with guests during the summer season, 
—with its walks to Rate's chasm and Norman's Woe Rock, made 
famous by Longfellow's poem, "The Wreck of the Hesperus." 
Entering the harbor gives one a fine view of. the City of Gloucester, 
the most renowned fishing port of the world, also noted for its 
drives and beautiful summer resorts for pleasure seekers. The 
harbor is noted for its beautiful beaches for sea-bathing, as well as 
for its boating and fishing. Single fare, 50 cents; commutation 
tickets of six trips. S2.40; round trip, 90 cents. The following gen- 
tlemen, wlio are widely known in business circles tor their energy 
and integrity are the executive officers: Henry W. Whitney, presi- 
dent; E. S. Merchant, treasurer and agent, Boston; Abbott Coffin, 
agent, Gloucester. 

He. WAIN WRIGHT & CO., Stock Brokers, No. 40 State 
Street.— The financial firms of Boston are justly recog- 
g nized as substantial and reliable as those of any city in 
the United States. Among the enterprising and repre- 
sentative firms of stock brokers in the city may be named that of 
Messrs. H. C. Wainwright & Co., whose office is located at No. 40 
State Street. This firm have had a long experience in financial life 
and their reputation is one of conservatism and integrity. They 
do a general commission brokerage business, and h.ave every facil- 
ity for its prompt execution, and number among their clients many 
wealthy investors and large operators. They have correspondents 
in New York and other cities with private telegraph wire to the 
former. Both members of the firm are members of the Boston 
Stock Exchange. 

DOWNER & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 2,S State Street.— 
The development of the Boston Stock Exchange is in nosmall 
degree due to those old established and reliable business 
houses, that have for .so many years not only created its 
volume of trade, but have originated and enforced a code of regu- 
lations which has perm.aneutly placed this institution on an endur- 
ing basis of equity. Among the popular .and old established houses 
thus identified with the Stock Exchange, is the responsible firm 
of Messrs. Downer & Co., bankers and brokers, whose offices are 
centrally located at No. 28 State Street. This business was estab- 
lished in 1849. Ten years ago the present copartners, Messrs. 
Frank W. Downer, G. Fred. Gridley and Edward C. Fletcher suc- 
ceeded to the management. They possess an intimate knowledge 



of every phase and feature of the stock and money markets, and 
customers can always rely on tlieir experience and facilities for 
securing the earliest official information relative to the value of 
all kinds of securities. The offices are spacious, andaflord every 
convenience to patrons, who number many wealthy investors and 
active operators. The firm conduct an extensive business in tlie 
purchase and sale strictly on commission of all stocks, bonds. Gov- 
e-'nment and miscell.aneous securities as listed by the boaid tor 
cash or on margin, and are at all times prepared to render their 
customers every possible advantage. They likewise sell drafts 
and telegraphic excluange on San Francisco, New York, Washing- 
ton, Montreal, Halifax, N. S., St. John, N. B., and Prince Edward 
Island. Messrs. Downer & Co., likewise dr,aw sight exchange on 
England, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, 
Sweden and all other European countries. The partners are pop- 
ular members of the Boston and New York Stock Exchange, and 
have a private wire to New York. During the Civil War Messrs. 
Downer & Co. conducted an extensive business in gold. The firm 
points with pride toa record of honorable dealing from its establish- 
ment up to the present time. 

RW. TURNER, Real Estate and Insurance, No. 194 Washing- 
ton Street. — The varied and vast interests involved in real 
J estate and insurance transactions in every important 
centre of activity in this country have in the nature of 
things, attracted to this branch of business some of the most en- 
terprising and far-seeing men in every community, and, it is 
scarcely necessary to st.ate, Boston is no exception to the rule. 
One of the leaders in this line of business activity is Mr. R. W. 
Turner, whose office is centrally located at No. 194 Washington 
Street. This gentleman has been engaged in business here since 
1876, and enjoys a deservedly high reputation for business ability, 
sound judgment and thorough reliability. He triinsacts a general 
real estate business in the city and vicinity, buying, selling, leasing 
andexchanging property of all kinds; attending to the management 
of estates, the collection of rents, the negotiation of loans on bond 
and mortgage, and effecting insurance in reliable companies. He 
is prepared to place risks in any insurance company desired, quot- 
ing the lowest rates of premium, and guaranteeing a prompt and 
liberal adjustment ot all losses. His business has been conducted 
from the outset with growing and gratifying success, and his con- 
nections are of the most substantial and desirable character, num- 
bering, as he does, among his permanent customers many of the 
solid and wealthiest capitalists, investors and property owners in 
Boston and its vicinity. He is a recognized authority as to the 
present and prospective values of realty in this city and its sub- 
urban towns, and all advice given or transactions effected 
through him can be relied upon as absolutely safe. Hisservices 
are promptly and conscientiously rendered, and his charges are 
invariably moderate. Mr. Turner is a native of Lynn, N. H., re- 
sides at No. 14 Jerome Street, Dorchester district, and refers by 
permission to Messrs. Samuel A. Carleton, president National- 
Security Bank; and H. W. Paine, No. 209 Washington Street, as to 
his reliability and personal worth. 

C WRIGHT & CO., Lard Refiners, No. 72 Market 

Street.— An important adjunct to the lard refinery in- 
dustry of Boston is that of Messrs. C. Wright & Company. 
The firm's refinery, which is fully equipped with modern 
apparatus .and appliances, is situ.ated on Norfolk Avenue. This 
business was established twenty years ago by Mr. Chandler Wright. 
who conducted it till 1872, when Mr. Edward E. Baldwin became a 
partner, the firm being known by the style and title of C. Wright 
& Company. The firm refine extensively pure and compounded 
lard, and pack lard in tierces, pails, etc., expressly for the 
English, German and South American markets. They handle only 
first-class stock and produce lard, which is .absolutely unrivalled 
in this or any other market. In fact their brands of lard are 
everywhere recognized and appreciated by the trade as standard 
productions. Messrs. C. Wright & Company filial! orders promptly 
and carefully for either the home or foreign trade at the lowest 
ruling market prices. Mr. Wright is a native of Arlington, Mass., 
and Mr. Baldwin of Cambridge, Mass. They .are active members 
of the Chamber of Commerce, and are highly esteemed in trade 
circles for their enterprise, business ability and integrity. 



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CT. DERBY & CO., Dealers in Granite, Bridge Abutments, 
Sea Wall and Wharf Builders, Office, No. G8 Devonshire 
Street.— The leading t/uilders and contractors of Boston iu 
the line ot sea walls, wharf walls, stone piers, abutments, 
etc., are Messrs, C. T. Derry & Co., ot No. 68 Devonshire Street, and 
Mechanics' Exchange. The business conducted by them is as long 
established as it is widely extended It was louuded thirty-five 
years ago by Mr. C. T. Derry, a native of Quincy and a practical 
master mason, quarry proprietor, and granite contractor, of the 
liigliest standing, and widest range of experience. He early de- 
veloped an active trade, and in the year 1808, took into copartner 
ship, Mr. C. H. Edwards under the name and style of C. T Derry & 
Co. In 1880, Mr. Edwards withdrawing, Mr James Burr came into 
the firm under the same style, and the house has since permanently 
maintained the lead iu its line. Its facilities are unrivalled, its 
resources ample, and its connections most influential. Having had 
experience in the performance of, the heaviest contracts in the 
building ot sea walls, piers, bridge abutments, etc., the firm is 
called on to perform the most important engagements iu this line. 
Their first contract was in 185G for William Evans, contractor with 
the city of Boston, on Albany Street, it being a wall over a mile in 
length, ot heavy dimensions, thirteen feet wide at bottom, tour 
feet wide at top, and fourteen feet high. They built a portion of the 
splendid Long Wharf : the substantial wharf and piling for the 
Standard Sugar refinery at South Boston ; the wharf for the Frank- 
lin Coal Co. at South Boston, owned by Francis B. Hayes. In 1883 
they built the great sea wall on Beacon Street, 2500 feet long and 
one of the most substantial ot its class. They are now engaged on 
the heaviest contract of the kind ever let, viz.;— for the Boston & 
Maine Railroad, the wall being 4000 feet long, ot the most durable 
and substantial character. Tins contract is the largest of the kind 
ever accomplished in the same length ot time, (from June 1, to 
December 1,) it being thirty feet wide at the base, three feet wide 
at top, and twenty feet high, built in seven feet ot water at low 
tide, and requiring about one hundred thousand tons ot stone. To 
give some idea of the magnitude of their business, we may state 
that they paid out tor labor and stoue from eighteen to twenty 
tliousand dollars per month last summer, employing a large num 
ber ot men and vessels in freighting and laying stone. Among 
their customers are the United States Government, for which they 
handled all the twenty-five ton guns with their appurtenances, dur- 
ing the war, landing them at all the different torts from New York 
Harbor north; leading railroads, such as the Fitchburg, tor which 
the Hoosac Tunnel Dock and Elevator was built, at which three of 
the largest foreign steamship lines running into Boston discharge ; 
they also furnished the foundation tor the large freight housed the 
Boston & Providence Railroad, and the new bridge at Dedhamand 
the one at Hyde Park for them ; Manufacturing corporations— the 
Boston Gas Light Co., tor whom they built about 1700 feet ot heavy 
sea wall and foundation for their works at Commercial Point, and 
the Bradley Fertilizing Works at Weymouth where they turnished 
about 500 feet ot sea wall. They have filled many contracts in 
jniblic competition and in the most satisfactory manner, and are 
thoroughly responsible, honorable contractors. Their stone is sup- 
plied from the quarries at RocUport and Quincy, and they employ 
as many as twenty vessels In the work ot transporting it from 
there to Boston. The removal and rebuilding ot old sea walls and 
wharves is a speciality and in this line they challenge competition. 
They are also owners of strongly built, able, and seaworthy lighters 
of large capacity, specially adapted tor the transportation ot heavy 
merchandise, granite, etc., to all parts of the harbor ; builders, S. 
S. agents, and otiiers should apply to them when in need of su- 
perior lighterage facilities. Mr. Derry is one ot the oldest mem- 
bers ot the Mechanics' Exchange, having been connected there- 
with tor fully thirty-five years past, and has ever accorded a hearty 
support to all measures best calculated to advance its permanent 
welfare and prosperity and that ot the trade. Mr. James Burr is 
also a practical man, for eight years past connected with the 
house, a native ot Quincy : he also is a popular and active mem- 
ber ot the Mechanics' Exch.inge. In conclusion we would 
state, that Capt. C. T. Derry, is one of the prominent citizens ot 
Sharon, Mass., being a large real estate owner, and takes an active 
interest in all improvements tending to the benefit of this most 
healthful town. He bought the property and formed the company, 
that constructed the Massapoiag Hotel, situated on the border of 



Massapoiag Lake, well known to all Boston people who are in the 
habit of residing in the country during the .summer months. Mr. 
Burr is also a prominent man in the town of Quincy, and, so tar as 
his standing there is concerned, need only state, that the people 
have chosen him as a representative ot their new city govern- 
ment. 

MX. DEiNHAM, Treasurer and Agent of Eastern Forge Co., 
ol Portland, Me., Rooms "8 and 79 Mason Building.— 
^ The most advanced and perfect industrial plant iu New 
England to-day is that of the Eastern Forge Company 
of Portland, Me., of which Mr. M. T. Denhain of Boston is tlie 
treasurer and general agent. It represents a heavy outlay most 
judiciously applied and has secured to New England, the credit ot 
having a stciim forge plant second to none in the country. The 
site of these great works has long been devoted to iron manufactur- 
ing' the business having been started by the Casco Iron Works in 
1858. Tliey were succeeded by the Presumpscot Iron Co., and after 
some years of activity, the concern laid idle for two years preced- 
ing Sfyitember, 18S5, when the Eastern Forge Company was or- 
ganized by Mr. M. T. Denhain and others, and vigorous measures 
were taken to develop an establishment that should h.ave full ca- 
pacity for the largest and all kinds of forgings. They bought the 
old plant, eflecting extensive alterations therein, and making im- 
portant additions, with the result that when they started up tliey 
were prepared to execute all orders from marine engine builders, 
founders, locomotive works, shipbuilders, etc. They ran steadily 
and with a steadily increasing business untu fire destroyed the 
works in December. 1887. With characteristic energy and enterprise 
Mr. Denham and his associates speedily set to work to rebuild, tliis 
time, taking every precaution to avoid all future dangers from 
fire, erecting their works entirely ot iron, and which is the only 
forge building so constructed in the country. They spared neither 
pains nor expense in fitting it up with the most powerful and per- 
fect machinery of every description specially made to meet their 
requirements. The trade interested has not been slow to mark its 
hearty appreciation of such well directed enterprise on the part of 
the Eastern Forge Co., and It has since starting up afresh been 
running niglit and day. employing a large force of hands in the 
manufacture of all classes ot heavy forgings tor marine engine 
builders. in,ichinists, shipbuilders, railroads, and making a promi- 
nent specialty ot forgings for locomotives, such as frames, driv- 
ing axles, connecting rods, crank pins. etc. Quality is ever the 
first consideration, which fact, coupled with the high finish and 
moderate prices at which contracts are taken, has resulted in a 
rapid growth of trade, the volume ot business now representing 
over $200,000 per annum. The works consume 500 tons of best No. 1 
wrought scra|) iron and open hearth steel per month and are the 
leading Industry of the kind in New Engl.and. Every facility is at 
command, including deep water frontage for receiving of iron and 
co.al and shipping of heavy forgings, also side track railroad connec- 
tions at the rear. This is a modern plant run under the most ap- 
proved and skilled methods, and, under the able executive guidance 
ot the treasurer the works are achievmga great and iiermanent suc- 
cess. Mr. Denham Is also contractiug agent for the famous Cape Ann 
Anchor Works, and, as the representiativeof the above leading con- 
cerns, renders Boston the centre ot a highly valuable branch of 
commerce. He is a respected member ot business circles, and Is 
worthy ot the substantial success achieved. 

WA. WATERHOUSE, Lumber, Wholesale and Commis- 
sion, No. 11 Central Street.— Among the younger lum- 
^ ber merchants of this city there is peihaps none that 
has been more fortunate in establishing a business 
connection or attaining a standing in the trade than W. A. W.iter 
house, Mr. Waterhouse, who is a Bostonian by birth, and has been 
in business on his own account about eight and a halt years, and 
from the first his efforts have been attended with uniform success. 
Mr. Waterhouse does a strictly wliolesale and commission business 
and handles northern, southern and western lumber ot all kinds, 
shipping direct from the mills in car and cargo lots. All orders 
receive immediate attention, shipments being made from all 
points in the most expeditious and reliable manner; and his trade 
which is large and active, extends throughout the whole of the 
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VAN DEEVEER & HOLMES BISCUIT COMPANY, Sole Man- 
ufacturers of the M Crackers, etc., F. A. Scranton, Maua- 
ger. No. 50 Merrlinae Street.— The represeutative and most 
noted house in the United States, extensively engaged in 
tlie manufacture of the famous A^ crackers and biscuits, is that 
known as the VanDerveer & Holmes Biscuit Company, whose 
office and salesrooms in Boston are located at No. 50 Merrimac 
Street. The principal offices and manufactory of the company are 
situated at Nos. 390 to 396 Washington Street and Nos. 35 to 45 Hu- 
bert Street, New York. This extensive business was originally 
incorporated as the Aerated Bread Company, and eventually in 
1876 was succeeded by the VanDerveer & Holmes Biscuit Company. 
The factory is admirably equipped witli the latest Improved ma- 
chinery, ovens and appliances, operated by steam power, while 
employment is given in tlie various departments to 3.50 skilled 
operatives. The most perfect cleanliness and neatness prevade 
every nook of this establislimenf, nn,] if w.mkl lie well for con- 



stantly on h.and ahe.avy and excellent stock, whicli includes butter, 
cheese, eggs lard, beans, peas and country produce generally; 
butter, cheese and eggs being specialties. Some halt a dozen 
salesmen are employed, all orders placed with the house bern;; 
promptly and reliably fllled, and the trade of tlie firm which ex- 
tends throughout the New England States, with a flourishing pat- 
ronage also, is very large. Mr. Kogers, who is the sole member, 
was born in the state of Maine, but has lived in the vicinity ot 
Boston for some time, having his residence at Jfalden. He is a 
young man of push, enterprise and good business qualities, thor- 
oughly honorable in his dealings, and is a popular member of the 
Produce Exhange. 



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sumers of crackers and biscuits if there were more like it. Tlie 
variety of goods produced by this progressive company is almost 
interminable, and being the principal manufactory in the United 
States, it lias originated the popular new styles now In general 
demand, and at the same time it still continues the introduction of 
desirable novelties in rapid succession, and in advance of all 
competitors. The company now manufactures upwards of five 
hundred varieties of crackers, biscuits, wafers, etc., which are 
absolutely nnriv.illed in this country or Europe for quality, purity, 
flavor, finish and uniform excellence, while the prices quoted for 
them are as low as any other contemporary house in tlie trade. 
The company's goods are put up in handsomely labelled glass 
front cans, with the newly invented polished brass brims, patented 
October 9, 1888, and exclusively used by tlie VanDerveer <St Holme? 
Biscuit Company. Tlie beautiful appearance of these glass front 
cans adds greatly to the sale ot the celebrated JE crakers and bis- 
cuits. The trade of the company now extends not only throughout 
the entire United States and Canada, but also to theWest Indies, 
Central and South America and Europe, wliere the well-knovvu 
trade-mark ^ is a household word. The executive officers of the 
company, who are highly regarded in trade circles for their enter- 
prise, business ability and just methods, are J. R. VanDerveer, presi- 
dent; L. C. Fuller, vice-president, and B. B. VanDerveer, secre- 
tary. The Boston branch is under the able and careful manage- 
ment of .Mr. F. A. Scranton, who is noted for his promptness and 
also honorable manner in which he attends to the interests and 
requirements of patrons. 

LA. ROGERS & CO., Commission Merchants and Dealers in 
Butter, Clieese, Eggs, Etc., Nos. 61 and 63 Clinton Street, 
, and No. 81 Faueuil Hall Market.— This enterprising and 
prosperous firm was established about six years ago, and 
Its career from the start has been a history of steady progress. 
They occupy spacious and commodious premises and carry con- 



HOMAS TURTON & SONS (Limited), Successors to Wil- 
liam Greaves & Sons, Manufacturers of Wm. Gre.aves & 
Sons' Celebrated Coach Spring Steel, Shear Steel and Cast 
Steel of all kinds, Sheffield, England. Boston Office: No. 
40 Kilby Street. Alan Arthur, Agent.— The leading head- 
quarters in this country for coach spring steel am? 
locomotive and railroad car springs is the establishment, 
of Thomas Turton & Sons (Limited), the well-known 
manufacturers of Sheffield, England, located at No. 
4U Kilby Street, in this city. This house controls the 
Hade of the above corporation in the United States and 
< .iiiada, and was established in New York for a period of 
se^ enty years, w hen the office was removed to Boston in, 
1S79. The management is placed in tlie experienced hands 
of Mr. Alan Arthur, as the American Agent of Itlie manufac- 
tuieis, who has a foundation understanding of all the de- 
tails and requirements ot the trade, and has proved hhnself 
eminently popular and successful in meeting all its demands. 
The works of Thomas Turton & Sons (limited), are the 
largest of their kind in Great Britain. As successors to 
\'\ illiam Greaves & Sons, they are noted throughout the civ- 
ilized world as manufacturers of Win. Greaves & Sons' cele- 
biated coach spring steel, shear steel, and cast steel of all 
kinds; best warranted cast steel files, engineers' tools, 
locomotive and railroad car springs of all descriptions. 
The house has been in existence for over one hundred 
and fifty years, and stands by common consent at the 
head of its particular line of trade throughout the world. 
It is a well-known fact that steel made from the purest 
brands of charcoal iron is the most reliable tor carriage springs. 
The best iron for this purpose is the Swedish iron. The coach 
spring steel ot this representative house is made entirely from 
Swedish iron, and the same quality of stock has been used for one 
hundred and fifty years. Greaves' steel is the only best, and is 
known as such amongst the carriage trade throughout the world. 
Some carriage builders use cheaper steel, still professing to use the 
best, but Gre.aves is the only perfect and it can easily be ascer- 
tained if one is getting the genuine article. Greaves is the easiest 
riding and most el.astic steel made ; lasts longer than any other 
steel, and never sets. Tliis steel is used entirely by Brewster & 
Co., New York, and by the best carriage-makers in the United 
States, England, France and Russia. Another important specialty 
of this house is Wm. Greaves & Sons' toe calk steel for horses. It 
is known to the horse-shoe trade generally that the calking steel 
bearing the above firm name is tlie best ever ni.ide for toe calks, 
and, if owners of horses and horse-shoers would keep their own 
best interests in the front, this steel alone would be used. It will 
outwear any otherm.ake, and will retain its edgonndertlie severest 
and most lengthened tests. It works easily, hardens h.ird.and 
welds perfectly. In addition to manufacturing the above named 
specialties, this firm has a world-wide reputation for the superi- 
ority of its warranted cast steel files, engineers' tools, and crucible 
cast steel made expressly for mill jiicks, rock drills, dies, hammers, 
taps, cups, cutters and fine-edge tools. The productions in these 
important lines are unequalled for quality, finish and temper, and 
are supplied to tlie trade at prices which are safe from successful 
competition. The firm also supply all the leading railway^ in 
England, India and .Australia with springs and spring steel. They 
supplied the steel that was used in that wonderful work of engin- 
eering skill, the Jlount Cenis tunnel, as their steel was found to 
bo superior to all others when brour;ht to tost and comparison. 
Mr. Arthur is a young man of large business experience. 



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WJH. HIGHTON & SONS, Manufacturers of Hot Air Regis- 
ters and Patent Indicator Ventilators, Etc., No. 56 
Cliarlestown Street.— Mr. Wm. Higliton & Sons have be- 
come nationally celebrated for their improved hot air 
registers and patent indicator ventilators. The business was es- 
tablished in 1877 by the late Mr. William Higliton and his late sons, 
Messrs." Marshall and James Higliton. They early developed a 
trade of great magnitude, and maintained the lead in their line. 
Tlie lamented decease of Mr. William Higliton occurred in July, 
1877, while the deaths of his two sons preceded his own, James dy- 
ing in March, 1878 and Marshall in April, 1887. The business has 
since been actively carried on by Mr. Enoch Shenton, as general 
manager, on behalf of the widow and daughters, heirs to, and pro- 
prietors of tlie concern. The factory occupies two floors at Nos. 
^ and 63 Charlestown Street, 3O.\90 feet, and fully fitted up with the 
latest machinery and appliances. Here seventeen hands are em- 
ployed under Mr. Shenton's personal sui>ervision, and moulders to 
the number of thirty men are employed at the foundry at Nashua, 
N. H., on this work, in tlie manufacture of all styles, plain and or- 




namental registers and ventilators, with vertical wheel, look nut, 
and adjustable end piece; round two valve ventilators, smoke 
pipe, round revolving registers and hot air grates; also circular 
top lire-place registers and adjustable summer piece borders. 
They are produced in the most elaborate patterns, elegant in ap- 
pearance and beautiful in various styles of Hnish, such as Japanned 
bronzed, nickle-plated, etc., brass and bronzed metal registers. 
Not only are they tlie finest goods known to the trade, but include 
many valuable improvements, for instance a register can be 
changed to a ventil.ator, by simply replacing two of the screws 
holding the face. The firm carry a large stock of soapstone bor- 
ders of the very best make, and Mr. Shenton is always in the van 
of progress, evidenced by the fact that he is now getting out new 
designs for all sizes of registers and ventilators specially adapted 
to the wants of architects and builders. They and the stove, 
range and furnace trade should send for the firm's catalogue and 
price list. Mr. Shent<m is a native of England, and has been a 
permanent resident of the United States since 1867. 

S. PRAY, Importer and General Commission Merchant, 
India Building, No. 80 State Street.— The importance 
of Boston as a great commercial centre, is forcibly dem- 
onstrated by her extensive import, export and general 
commission trade. Representative among the principal houses, 
which have materially the volume of this trade, is that of Mr. 
B. S. Pray, importer and general commission merchant. This 
business was established in 1863 by Mr. Pray who transacts 
a general commission business, both as regards imports and ex- 
ports. His resources are large, his connections in fluential 
and his facilities unrivalled. He exports provisions, head- 
stuffs, petroleum, machinery and manufactured goods, and 
is ulso a receiver of merchandise and produce of every descrip- 
tion, chiefly from Africa, Central and South America, etc. Mr. 
Pray's intimate knowledge of the requirements of foreign 
countries, coupled with his high mercantile standing, affords 
ample assurance that business intrusted to him will receive care- 
ful and faithful attention. 



THOMAS DANA & CO., Importers and Wholesale Grocers 
Nos. 43 to47 Commercial and Nos.65to59 Clinton Streets.— Nc 
branch of commercial enterprise in the city of Boston is more 
important or representative in character than that of the 
wholesale grocery trade. Prominent among the number is the old 
established and reliable house of Messrs. Thomas Dana & Co., im. 
porters and wholesale grocers. This business was establislied 
originally in 1830 by Messrs. Thomas Dana and Thomas Hastings. 
Eventually after several changes in tlie constitution of the firm, 
the present copartners asoumed the management, the members 
being Messrs. Tliomas Dana, William H. Raymond, William O. 
Delano and Herbert F. Brooks. Mr. Thomas Dana has been a 
member of the firm since 1855, and Mr. W. H. Raymond since 1872. 
The founder, Mr. Thomas Dana, died in 1878 after a long, honor- 
able and successful career. The premises occupied comprise a 
superior seven-story building 125x40 feet in area, fully equipped 
with all modern appliances, elevators, etc. The stock carried is 
extensive, well selected, and complete in every department and 
includes everything pertaining to the staple and fancy grocery 
trade. Messrs. Thomas Dana & Co. make a specialty of teas, cof- 
fees, spices, molasses, etc., the choicest Mocho and Java coffees, 
fresh crop Oolongs, Japans, English breakfast. Young Hyson and 
other standard teas are always to be found here all quoted at 
the Arm's usually low prices. In flour, farinaceous goods, sugars, 
syrups, canned goods, foreign and domestic dried fruits, tobacco, 
cigars, soaps, etc., they are prepared to offer substantial induce- 
ments to jobbers and retailers. The firm import direct, and handle 
goods which are absolutely unrivalled for quality, purity, freshness 
and general excellence, while the prices quoted in all cases neces- 
sarily attract the attention of close and careful buyers. They are 
agents for the sale of the famous American Milling Company's flour, 
and their trade now extends throughout all sections of New Eng- 
land, the eastern, middle and western states. The partners are pop. 
ular members of the Board of Trade, the Produce Exchange, and the 
Wholesale Grocers' Association. Mr. Dana is one of Boston's public 
spirited citizens. He is a director of tlie Maverick National Bank, 
the Union Glass Co., the Boston Marine Insurance Co., the Beacon 
Publishing Co., and several other prominent corporations. Mr. 
W. H. Raymond is president of the Electric Lustre Starch Co. The 
influence exercised by this responsible firm in the wholesale gro- 
cery trade of Boston has been of the most salutary and useful 
character, and those interested establishing relations with it, will 
obtain advantages very difficult to be duplicated elsewhere in 
this country. 

FW. TODD & CO., Real Estate and Insurance Brokers, No 
186 W.ashington Street.— This firm are deservedly prom- 
inent as Real Estate and Insurance Brokers and Convey- 
ancers, .and make a leading specialty of the negotiation 
of mortgages. The business was originally established in 1873, by 
Mr. F. W. Todd, and in 1886 the present firm was organized by the 
admission of Mr. Francis Todd to partnership. Both gentlemen 
are natives and well-known residents of Roxbury, and have an in- 
timate knowledge of property values in all sections of the city 
and its various suburban towns, and a wide acquaintance with 
men and things. They give special attention to the purchase, sale, 
leasing, care .and improvement of re.al estate, collection of rents 
and examination of titles, and to all other matters that come 
within the legitimate sphere of their usefulness. Their books con- ' 
tain at all times a great number of desirable houses and lots for 
sale and lease, including many choice business sites, and special 
advantages are possessed for rendering very valuable service. No 
house in the city is better equipped for its specialty of negotiation 
of mortgages, in which a list of permanent customers are secured, 
embracing many of the best-known property-owners, investors 
and business men in the city. Insurance is effected in the best 
Are companies at the lowest rates of premium, and a speedy and 
satisfactory adjustment is guaranteed in all cases of loss. This 
firm are agents in West Roxbury for the City of London Fire In- 
surance Company, which is widely known for itssolidity and relia- 
bility. They refer by permission to the following well-known citi- 
zens of Boston, viz: Elisha Atkins, No. 35 Broad Street; Alpheus 
H. Hardy, Scars Building; Geo. E. Bullard, Agent tor Brown Bros. 
& Co., No. 66 State Street ; Wm. F. Day, President of Sewell & Day 
Cordage Company. 



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RICHARDS & CO., Importers and Dealers in Tin Plates, Slieet 
Iron and Metals, No. 60 Union, and No. 47 Friend Street.— 
A liouse establislied upwards of seventy-six years, must 
necessarily engage more than ordinary attention, from 
the compilers ol this review of the commerce and industries of the 
city of Boston. Such an establishment is that of Messrs. Richards 
& Co., importers and dealers, in tin plates, sheet iron and metals, 
whose ofBces and ware-house, are situated on Union and Friend 
Streets. Mr. Renben Richards, founder of the metal business in 
Boston, was born in Dedham, Mass., in 17S7, wliere he received an 
e.Kcellent academic education. He came to Boston at fourteen 
years of age, and entered the hardware store of John Odin, where 
he obtained several years of mercantile training, which laid the 
foundation tor his future successful career. In 1812, Mr. Richards 
establislied in Dock Square, the metal importinghusiness, in which 
he H-as eminently successful. In 1825 lie removed to South 
Marlcet Street, and continued there in business until 1846, 
when he retired from active business, with an ample for- 
tune. Mr. Richards had purchased a summer home, in hisnativo 
town, several years before, and the Une house on Summer Street, 
Boston, « as his winter residence. It was here that he lived, in the 
enjoyment of friends, and among his books for which he had a culti- 
vated taste, until his deatli in May 5, 1S55. Messrs. William 
Riciiards and Reuben Richards succeeded their father in the 
metal business, on Soutli Market Street, and formed, a seven 
years' copartnership with Mr. Daniel Farrar, with whom 
they had been former clerks of Jlr. Reuben Richards. In 1853 Mr. 
Farrar retired, the brothers then removed to Commercial Street. 
In 1858 Mr. William Richards retired from active business, leav- 
ing his brother sole proprietor of this well-established house. In 
1862 Reuben Richards removed to the large granite store on 
North Street, which he erected on the estate inherited from his 
fiither, here he continued an extensive and profitable business. 
After the great Boston Are, he built a large store on Milk Street, 
to which Richards & Co., removed. Since 1877 the present .and 
spacious store has been occupied; it is fully equipped with every 
facility and appliance for storage and prompt shipping of metals, 
Messrs. Richards & Co. import direct from the most noted foreign 
houses, large quantities of metals, they have constantly in stock a 
full line of sheet iron, pig tin, tin plates. Russia sheet iron, spelter, 
copper, antimony, lead, sheet copper, etc., which are offered at the 
lowest market price. Their trade extends, not only throughout 
New England, but also, to the principal cities of the west and 
south. The policy of this well-known, and popularhouse, has been 
one of liberality and fair dealing, to this is due the prolitable, 
permanent, and honorable commercial relations established with 
their customers. Several of the leading metal dealers, owe their 
knowledge of the busmess to their experience gained in the em- 
ploy of this firm. Mr. Reuben Richards has formed several 
limited copartnerships in his long business career, and in 1886, he 
admitted his son Mr. Reuben Richards as partner. Both 
father and son were born in Boston, the former on Hancock Street, 
the latter at No. 14 Arlington Street, which was for many years the 
home. Their present residence is in Cambridge, Mass. 

WESTON LUMBER COMPANY, Harold Weston, Treas- 
urer; Office: No. 71 Kilby Street; Mills; Groveton, 
N, H. ; E.aston, N. H,, and Lanesboro, Vermont.— The 
importance of the New England and Middle States as a 
market for spruce, hemlock and hardwood lumber is forcibly 
demonstrated by the great concerns and large capital enlisted in 
the cutting and sale of the best grades of the above lumber. In 
this line one of the leading representatives in New England is the 
Weston Lumber Company, witli headquarters at No. 71 Kilby 
Street. The company was duly incorponated in 1888, with a capital 
stock o f $100,000 to acquire valuable timber lands and engage in 
lumbering and milling operations upon an extensive scale. The 
president is Mr. H. G. White, of Boston, a well-knovfn and re- 
spected business man. The treasurer is Mr. Harold Weston, 
a native of Boston, and who, though a young man, is old 
experienced as a practical lumber operator, and the organization 
of the present company is due to his ability, foresight and sound 
judgment. He is its principal stockholder .and faithfully dis- 
charges the onerous duties devolving upon him. The company 
has no less than 22,000 acres of the choicest spruce ;uul hemlock. 



birch and maple timber Lands in New Hamspire and Vermont, 
The value of such a body of timber so close to market, cannot be 
over estimated, and the company is vigorously at work tliis winter 
getting out millions of feet of logs to keep its mills busy next 
summer. Its milis are situated in Groveton, N. H. ; E.aston, N. H., 
and Lanesboro, Vermont. They are equipped with best machinery 
and saws, and have an aggregate capacity of So,000 feet per day. 
The company has direct railroad communications and every possi- 
ble facility at command for supplying the markets of Boston and 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, witli the best 
grades of hemlock, spruce, birch and maple lumber of ail di- 
mensions. Mr. Weston also does a very heavy wholesale 
business, shipping in car lots, or by season or other contracts 
to our leading jobbers and retail lumber merclnants manufactur- 
ers and exporters. His policy is one of integrity. Quality is the 
tirst consideration, while there are substantial inducements 
ollered ,as to prices, direct and prompt delivery. Bills ol stuff 
are sawed to dimensions that cannot readily be duplicated 
elsewhere. The management of tlie company is in Mr. Weston s 
charge as their only representative, and whose operations 
will prove of material advantage in promoting Boston's commer- 
cial prosperity. 

HL. LAWRENCE & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Poultry, Wild Game, Pigs Feet, Tongues, Etc.; Stalls, 
, Nos.46and 48 F.aneuil Hall Market.— The leading and old- 
est established house in Boston and New England de- 
voted to the trade in poultry and game, is that of Messrs. H. L 
Lawrence & Co. The business was established forty-six 
years ago by Mr. H. L. Lawrence, one of the ablest and most en- 
terprising merchants of the city. In 1858 his brother, Mr. J. P. 
Lawrence came into copartnership, and the firm thus formed con- 
tinued to do a steadily growing and desirable tr.atnc, permanently 
maintaining tlie lead in their line. In October, 1887, Messrs. W. H. 
Jones and F. H. Hosiner became copartners under the existing 
name and style, and the house permanently enjoys the reputation 
of handling the choicest consignments of , 'poultry, game, etc., of 
any in the trade. The largest game dealers in Boston, the firm 
have trade relations extending .all over the United States, England, 
Canada, etc. In season, every description of game can be had 
here, while at all seasons the firm carry a heavy stock of the 
choicest poultry, smoked tongues, pigs feet, tripe, etc. Twelve 
hands are employed in the various departments, and tlie firm sup- 
ply the leading families of Back Bay and prominent localities, our 
principal hotels, restaurants, steamboats, etc. Both as to qu.ality 
and lowest range of prices, the firm carry a lieavy stock of the 
reputation ; their prompt, liberal methods, and ability to supply 
the largest wholesale orders, render them the favorites witli the 
trade of New England, while they secure to retail purchasers the 
choicest of everything in their lines. The Messrs. Lawrence are 
natives of Lexington, Mass., and have long been active and influ- 
ential members of Boston's commercial circles. Tlieir partners, 
Messrs. Jones and Hosmer are nativesrespectively of South Boston 
and Framingham, respected and capable members of the mercan- 
tile community, and the house, as thus constituted, is a worthy ex- 
ponent of the commerce of Boston. 

J Q. NEWHALL, Pattern Maker, No. 65 Haverhill Street.— 
This enterprising and reliable business man opened his 
, doors to the business world in 1854, and from the first his es- 
tablishment h.as been attended with remarkable success. His 
motto from the outset has been honest work and square dealing. 
During the whole thirty-four years Jlr. Newhall has been in busi- 
ness he has been located at No. 65 Haverhill Street, where he oc- 
cupies the third and fourth floors, each containing an area of 
2.5x70 feet. They are provided witli steam power and the best mod- 
ern wood-working machinery, tools, etc, identified with the 
trade. As a pattern-maker Mr. Newhall is the most ex- 
perienced man in the business in the city, and is known 
far and wide as an expert in his vocation, and as a prompt 
reli,able man of business. Employing an adequate staff of skilled 
artisans, he is at all times prepared to make at short notice the 
most accurate patterns for all kinds of machinery, stoves, steam- 
fittings, globe valves, cocks, .and for castings of every description. 



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DOLL & KICHAKDS, Fine Arts, So. 2 Park Street— The lead- 
ing liouse in Boston devoted to the flue arts is that of 
Messrs. Doll & Richards, whose gallery and studio are so 
desirably located at No. 2 Park Street. Nowhere, as in 
Boston, has such a sound and critical taste developed the highest 
achievements of the painter, etcher, photogragher, etc. Nowhere 
can these tastes be so thoroughly gratified as in this firm's estab- 
lishment. The business is a very old one, having been founded by 
Messrs. Heudrickson, Doll & Kichards in 1866. In 1870 Messrs. 
Doll & Richards became sole proprietors, and thus continued 
througliout a long, honored and markedly beneficial career, 
initil the lamented decease of Mr. Doll in 1880. Since that 
date, Mr. J. Dudley Richards has remained sole proprietor, 
retaining the old and familiar firm name. In 1878, the 
concern removed to its present location in Park Street, 
consisting of an elegantly decorated olBce and display 
room for etchings, engravings, paintings, etc., 35x50 feet in dimen- 
sions; while in the rear, and advantageously situated to secure the 
best light, is a large, fully-appointed studio, the patronage coming 
from the leading social circles of Boston and New England. The 
establishment is a veritable treasure house of valuable paintings, 
etchings and other works of arts. At intervals the firm issue a 
catalogue of tlie works of art for sale in their galleries, and there 
are now to be secured such chef d'ceuvres as Haig's etchings, proofs 
on parchment and on Japan, after J. F. Millett; very choice;exani- 
ples after Rembrandt, and a large miscellaneous collection of 
etchings from celebrated pictures by Titian, Rosa Bonheur, Meis- 
sonier, DIcksee, Constable, Corot, Breton, Munkacsy, etc., by the 
most noted etchers, including Rajon, LeCouteux, etc. Among the 
more notable of these etchings are Meissonier's La Rixe, etched by 
Bracquemond ; Breton's Last Ray, by Kajon ; Titian's Bacchus and 
Ariadne, by Macbeth ; Munkacsy's Christ Before Pilate, by Walt- 
ner, etc. The finest photographs are a specialty, including A. 
Braun's carbon photographs ; the collection consisting over 600 sub. 
jeets, taken principally from the galleries and collections of old 
masters in Europe ; also photographs from Italian ruins and, from 
many important pictures in Florence, Rome, Venice, etc. All the 
Arundel Society publications are kept on h.and, and also many 
pictures by local artists in oils and water colors. This is head- 
qnarteis for unique cabinet photograph frames and framing gener- 
ally and the leading business of the kind is done. Mr. Richards 
personally superintends the various departments of the concern, 
and is a recognized leading authority on the flue arts in Boston. 

Mil. .JONES & CO., Manufacturers of Ornamental Iron 
Work, tor Decorating Lawns, Cemeteries, Residences, 
^ Etc., No. 76 Washington Street.— In this age of utilitarian 
refinement, whe)i tlie most prosaic surroundings are ren- 
dered artistic, bright and beautiful by the introduction of the 
wonderful achievements of skilled artisans, it is natural that a 
trade of great magnitude should be developed in ornamental 
ironwork. The leading American house in one of the most impor- 
tant departments of this line is that of Messrs. M. D. Jones & Co., 
of No. 70 Wasliington Street. The business was founded by Mr. 
Jones in 1870 iiud has had a steady growth and an ever widening 
area of connections. The house is specially devoted to orn.amental 
iron work for the decoration of lawns, cemeteries, residences, pub- 
lic edifices, etc. Mr. Jones, who is a native of Boston, is the leading 
autliority in this line, and has gathered here a magnificent sample 
stock, among which we might specialize, elegant iron vases and 
fountains, for gardens, lawns and cemeteries; iron chairs and 
settees, artificial plants and foliage ; metal wreaths and crosses 
fO' cemeteries; lawn sprinklers of ornate patterns, with four, 
six, and eight arms; ornamental fountains and drinking fount- 
ains, as novel in design as useful and beautiful; also, all kinds 
of iron stable fittings, hay racks, oat mangers, iron crestlngs 
and finials, Jones' improved stall floors and partitions admira- 
bly constructed and vastly superior to all other styles; also 
flower pot and shelf-brackets, wire railings, flower stands, etc. 
The iron used is of the best quality; the castings are of the most 
perfect character, and give evidence of h;iving been designed and 
moulded by experts. Mr. Jones' f.actory and finishing shop is at 
No. 38 Chardon Street, and all orders in his line whether from the 
trade or individuals will receive prompt attention, and prove in 
every way satisfactory. To all who are now improving and beau- 



tifying their grounds or houses or realize the need of doing so, we 
would strongly recommend to inspect this thoroughly represen. 
tative stock of ornamental iron work. 

FRED L CLAYTON, Merchant Tailor, No. 8 City Hall Avenue.— 
For a very superior article in custom-made clothing we com- 
mend our readers to the establishment of Mr. Fred I. Clayton, 
the well-known merchant tailor, at No. 8, City Hall Avenue, 
between School Streetand Court Square. This gentleman has been 
established in the business for a period of twenty years, and has 
built up a high reputation and a large and steadily increasing 
trade. His store is very h,andsomely fitted up and furnished, and 
a stock is displayed of foreign and domestic f,abrics, embracing 
always the latest styles and most fashionable novelties for each 
incoming season. A force of twenty-five skilled hands is con- 
stantly employed, and garments are made to measure of unsur- 
passable excellence, both as regards style, fit and artistic work- 
manship. The reputation of the house is so high that the proprie- 
tor cannot afford to allow inferior or imperfect work to leave the 
establishment, and nothing is delivered to customers but what can 
be guaranteed to be perfect in every respect. The special rule of 
the house is to make no mistakes in fitting, and to have all orders 
finished at the time desired, while the prices which prevail are 
eminently fair and equitable. The patronage is very large and in- 
fluential in the city, and also extends to all parts of New England 
and as far as California, and is annually increasing in volume and 
importance under enterprising and reliable management. Mr. 
Clayton is a native of the state of Maine, a resident of Cliarles- 
town, and in business in Boston since 1862. He Is thoroughly 
accomplished as a practical master of the tailor's art, entirely re- 
liable and responsible in all his dealings, and a young man of high 
social and business standing. 

DR. E. S. TAYLOR, Dentist, No. 23 Tremont Street.— One of 
Boston's foremost dental practitioners is Dr. E. S. Taylor, 
the popular and well patronized dentists, of No. 23 Tre- 
mont Street, who has established a first-class reputation 
tor judgment and skill in his profession. Dr. Taylor, wlio is ;i 
comparatively young man, and a gentleman of pleasing manners 
and the highest personal integrity, was born in Vermont, but has 
resided in this city many years. He is a thoroughly practical .and 
expert dentist, of ample experience in all branches of the art, and 
is a graduate of the University of the State of Iowa. He has been 
in practice here since 1875, and from the first has steadily in- 
creased his hold on popular favor and confidence, owing to the 
general satisfaction rendered to those availing themselves of his 
professional services. Dr. T.aylor occupies neatly furnished and 
well equipped parlors, having in .service all the latest appliances 
and appurtenances, both mechanical and scientific, and Is pre- 
pared to attend to all branches of the profession. Teeth are ex- 
tracted, inserted, filled and adjusted in the most superior and 
reliable manner, special attention being given to extracting and 
gold filling, while g.as or ether is administered likewise, when de- 
sired, with absolute safety, and altogether Dr. Taylor, whose 
terms are most reasonable, has a fine city and out of town patron- 
age. 

ELIAS BLOCK & SONS, Distillers. Cincinnati, W. D. Ellis, 
Eastern Agent, Boston Office, No. 20 Broad Street.— A repre- 
sentative and widely known house in Boston extensively 
engaged in the wholesale liquor trade, is that of Messrs. 
Elias Block & Sons. The firm own and operate three distilleries 
—Carroll Co. Distilling Co., Wide Awake, Ky. ; Darling Dis- 
tilling Co., Prestonville, Ky., and the Mercantile Club Distillery 
Co., Wide Awake, Ky. Tlie firm's re-distilling and rectifying are 
done onSycamore .Street, Cincinnati. Tliis business was origiually 
founded in 1849, by Mr. Elias Block, who eventually in 1867 admit- 
ted his sons Messrs. Louis, Samuel and Joseph Block, and his son- 
in-law, Mr. E. J. Mack into partnership, the firm being known by 
the style and title of Elias Block A Sons. For excellence, purity 
and evenness of quality, the whiskies of this responsible firm are 
unsurpassed by any in the market. The Darling Bourbon is the 
special brand of this popular house, and is thoroughly appreciated 
by the trade and public wherever introduced. These whiskies are 
entirely free from any adulteration, and possess a natui;vl flavor. 



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INGERSOLL ROCK DRILL COMPANY, Mellen S. Hallow, 
Miinager New England OfBce; Nos. 159 Friend and 66 Canal 
Streets.— Tlie IiigersoU Rock Drill Company, of New Yorl< 
and Boston, is Ivnown the world over as builders of flrst-class 
macliinery for mining, tunneling and qnarrying. Tlieir IngersoU 
Eclipse and the Sergeant rock drills are now recognized by all 
large contractors as by far the best in the market. The extent of 
their use in the United States may be seen by the following taken 
from 1 leading engineering journal vi?' "Seventy live percent of 
the metal pioduced fiom machine mined oie in thi United M ites 




dm 111 1 «i mined b> the 111 r il i 1^ i iiit liMI I iii 
tiflli I til iixk on tiie new (it i \ |ii in t w is iinicn I li\ 
IiifccrboU diillb wlieie the avenge ucoidof tunnel piogiess shown 
b\ engineers tables was twenty pei cent in advance of otheis 
iwenty-four of the twenty eight laige tunnels which have been 
driven with m.acliine dulls in this countiy have employed the In 
geisoU drill" The new Ingeisoll Seigeant an eompiessoi, in 




design, material and woikmaii^i \ i> i i ii n i i 
tomatio and adjustable regulation I i m m I -.1 iin— . lint, i \ 
watei ciiculation thoioughandautomxtic lubiication , accomplish 
ing the most economical production of compressed air power. 
The air compressors, built by this company, probably equal in 
number those of all others combined, and by their patent cooling 
process, only about four to six per cent, is lost by heat in coin- 
pressing the air, while the old process lost twenty-five per cent, 
and over. With the new automatic regulator there is no loss of 
air through the safety valve when compressor is running, whether 
air is being consumed or not, therefore no lo.ss of power as by all 
other regulators. The New England ofhce which has been estab- 
lislied two years is at Nos. 159 Friend and 66 Canal Streets, Boston, 



where a full line of sizes of IngersoU and Sergeant rock drills, 
hoisting engines, boilers and otlier machinery is kept in stock. 
Tlie man.ager of the New England office, Mr. Mellen S. Harlow, is 
an engineer of several years experience with this special class of 
machinery and is well fitted for the pkace as is shown by the large 
amount of machinery sold, not only in New England but also in 
Canada where they are fitting out several gold mines witli their im- 
proved mining drills, air compressors, etc. It will be tor the in- 
terest of all parties to call and examine the ni,achinery. 

FKANKLIN RUBBER COMPANY, 
Fuller, Leonard & Small, Proprie- 
tois No. 13 Franklin Street.— 
Tlieie is no substance now in nsa 
til it IS c ipable of subserving so many 
iiid vaiied purposes of man as India 
I ulibei Not only are water-proof gar- 
ni iits boots and shoes m,ade of this ma- 
I 1 lal but a great number of fabrics and 
irtKles especially adapted for niechani- 
il puiposes. Each year but enlarges 
the spheieof its usefulness, and its man- 
iifietuie IS increasing in enormous pro- 
I itiims A leading headquarters in 
I 111 titj for India rubber goods of every 
1 sciiption is the establishment of the 
l-i inklin Rubber Company, located at 
N 13 Fianklin Street, near \Va.shing- 
t 11 The proprietors, Messrs. Fuller, 
I mard t Small, are widely prominent 
wholesale and retail dealers in India 
ml bei goods, and have been established 
111 the business here since 1882. They 
iM I 1 1 II inlHttia tive silesiooms,and displayatall times 
ilirt mill „int t ( k ol toods The assortments are thoroughly 
complete and coinpiehensive and include rubber clothing, boots 
and shoes ladies and gent sgossimer clothing, druggists' sundries, 
elastic bands ind rings, syringes of all kinds, endless belts and nia- 
< I II 1' liii II I II -I assortment, rubberandcottonho.se, including 
|^'|^|| 111 1 1 II I 111 e, steam, oil, tanners' and garden hose; felt 
mats in various colors and rubber door 
111 Its. pails, buckets, and steam packing 
1 ill kinds; carpeting, stair plates, 
ill ml spimgs, wagon-springs, weather 
ti ips, umbrellas, toys, gloves, drinking 
1 lips, dolls, chair tips, brushes and a 
ilinusand and one things both useful 
mil ornamental. Special attention is 
-uen to the character and quality of 
till pi eductions, the aim of the proprie- 
i"is being not only to meet every want 
111 this line. but to offer the very best in 
\ciy case that the markets afford. 
I lie goods handled are received direct 
1 M'lii the most reputable manufacturers, 
mil aieabsolutelyunrivalled for utility 
lui ability and uniform excellence, in 
I his oi any market in the country. 
I lit y aie shipped in large quantities 
iliioughout the New England States, 
liile a fine export tr,ade is enjoyed 
u ith England, France, Italy and Spain. 
The pi ices quoted are ,as low as those of 
I i[ I 1 \ Il use in the ti.ade 

ALLEN & WHITNEY, Marine Insurance Brokers, No. 41 
Devonshire Street.— The firm of Allen & Whitney is the 
oldest marine brokerage house in Boston having been estab- 
lished over thirty years. Their clients are the leading 
merchants and shipowners in this country, and their connections 
with other cities in the United States, as well as with London 
and Liverpool, give them facilities tor placing large lines on all 
kinds of marine hazards. A long experience enables them to 
make clear contnacts, and thus avoid questions and complica- 
tions. Their correspondents in this country and abroad, are 
among the most expert in the marine insurance business. 



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THEODORE W. GORE, Average Adjuster, No. 30 Kilby Street. 
—A specialty little kuowii to tUe general business world, 
yet, within its proper sphere, of great usefulness, is the pro- 
fession of the average adjuster, or stater of marine losses, 
as he is often called. It arose from the necessity of our maritime 
commerce, since the complicated, delicate, and perplexing ques- 
tions daily arising, required some dispassionate and impartial 
authority to dispose of them; nnd so the average adjuster came 
Into the exercise of a distinct and independent calling by a natural 
or necessary division of our commercial industry. His place has 
not been created by any act of the state nor has his authority been 
enforced by official position; he is the development of a mercantile 
want, and his influence depends on, indeed his very reason for ex- 
istence, consists in his fitness, his experience, his Impartiality, and 
his moral character; neither an accountant nor a lawyer: yet of 
necessity sufBciently skillful in accounts, to clearly arrange and 
simplify the countless complications to which maritime affairs 
give rise, and at the same time not only the depository of the tradi- 
tional lore, usages and customs of maritime and insurance settle- 
ments, but resorted to as a dictionary or digest of all the litigation 
and decisions bearing upon marine insurance and average matters. 
Tlie profession requires a peculiar combination of talents, a liking 
lor the law, skill in the management of accounts and a willingness 
to submit to the drudgery which an intricate statement of general 
average, or the correct solution of tlie many points constantly aris- 
ing necessarily involves. The head of this profession in Boston, by 
common consent, is Mr. Tlieodore W. Gore, of No. 30 Kilby Street. 
This gentleman is a native Bostonian, educated in the public 
schools and graduating from the English High School in this city. 
He entered at an early age the office of General John S. Tyler, the 
distinguished adjuster of marine losses, remaining there until tlie 
General's death in 1876, when the firm of Winship Bros. & Gore was 
formed to continue the business. This firm was dissolved in 1884, 
and Mr. Gore has since conducted the practice of his profession in 
his own name with eminentand nninterruptedsucce.ss. Mr. Gore's 
long and varied experience, thorough proficiency and perfect un- 
derstanding of intricate and complicated points in insurance law 
are such as to give to liis evidence in courts of law the value of an 
expert. In marine causes, he is often referred to as an arbiter, 
whose decisions are readily acquiesced in by botli contending 
parties, and he thus prevents much costly litigation. His .services 
are in important request in this city, and are rendered in a manner 
to increase his reputation, as a sound arbiter and expert adjuster, 
and to commend him to the confidence of all who need the aid and 
counsel of a reliable efxpert in insurance matters. 

HERMAN ZOHRLAUT LEATHER COMPANY, Manufactur- 
ers of the Celebrated Milwaukee Oil Grain, Boston Store; 
Nos. 181 and 183 Summer Street, Leavitt & Libbey, Manag- 
ers.— It is a well known fact that Boston leads the United 
States in regard to the manufacture of leather and boots and 
shoes, and th.at every year lier products in this line show a de- 
cided tendency to increase. Hence it is that outside manufactories 
find it advantageous, if not essential, to have branch representa- 
tive houses here and to compete for the trade which has for so long 
centred in the capital of the Old Bay State. Manufacturers of 
leather goods of every description in all parts of the country look 
to Boston for supplies, and where the demand is most felt there 
are sure to gatlier those who make it tlie business of their lives to 
meet the demand. Hence it is tliat the leather industry in Boston 
continues to grow. Among the most active and successful com- 
petitors in tliis market to-day is the Herman Zohrlaut Leather 
Company, an old established, highly reputable concern, wliose 
headquarters are located at Nos. 809 to 825 Nortli Water Street, 
Milwaukee, Wis. Tlie business was founded there in 1857, and in 
1879 the concern became an incorporated company, the proprietors 
being Herman Zohrlaut, Edward Zohrlaut and Henry Eskuche. 
They have an immense tannery, employing hundreds of hands, 
and manufacture the celebrated Milwaukee Oil Grain, war- 
ranted to hold black and not to crack: also boot grain, wax, 
upper, finished splits, kip, calf, russet and oiled skirting, harness 
leather, etc. In 1886 the company established their Boston branch 
house, and have occupied their present store at Nos. 181 and 183 
Summer Street for a year or more. This has an area of 40x72 feet, 
is finely fitted up, and contains a very heavy, carefully selected 



stock tliat is fully representative of the company's high class 
goods. Tlie business here is under the management of Messrs. 
Leavitt & Libbey, botli of whom are Bostonians, and who have de- 
veloped a fine trade throughout the New England States. 

LFACCINI & CO., Agents for Wines, Brandies,Whiskies, Etc., 
No. 45 North Market Street, Room 16.— The pure and unad- 
j ulterated wines of California are now consumed in large 
quanties by .Americans and Europeans, and as the latter, es- 
pecially tlie French and Germans, are considered to be the best 
judges of wines in the world, the approval of the vintages from tlie 
Pacific Slope is a convincing proof of their purity, excellence and 
superiority. Tlie leading source of supply for these wines in Bos- 
ton is the agency conducted by Messrs. L. Faccini & Co., at No. 
45 North Market Street. This firm are the Boston agents for the 
well-known New York house of Messrs. C. Carpy & Co.. controlling 
the trade for the entire New England States. As agents tor the 
best California wines, brandies, whislsies, etc., making a specialty 
of Italian wines, Chianti of 1884, and Italian maccaroni, cheese, 
etc., they are in a position to conduct all operations in their line 
under the most favorable auspices and upon the largest scale. 
Tliey pride themselves upon offering the trade a perfectly pure 
and reliable wine at a Imoderate price, and it is therefore not 
surprising that this popular house stands at the head of tlie busi- 
ness in this flourishing commercial center. The goods are shipped 
direct from the vineyards of California, all orders being guaranteed 
prompt and perfect fulfillment, and inducements being offered as 
regards superiority of stock and liberality of terms and prices 
which challenge comparison and defy successful competition. The 
copartners, Messrs. L. Faccini and Itaillo Bruno, are natives of 
Italy, experienced merchants in this line, and gentlemen of high 
repute in trade circles. 

J GARDNER CURTIS & CO., Importers of Coffees and 
Spices, No. 30 Central Street.— The house of J. Gardner 
^ Curtis & Co., at No. 30 Central Street, enjoys a national 
reputation in the importation of coffees and spices, having 
direct trade relations upon the most extensive scale with the far 
east, the Spice Islands, West Indies, and other noted producing 
sections, and a home trade co-extensive with the limits of the 
country. The house has been in successful operation for a period 
of twenty years. Mr. Curtis, the enterprising proprietor, is held 
in universal esteem by the trade throughout the country. Bring- 
ing ample resources to bear, importing direct from the centres of 
growth, and controlling cargoes of the choicest products, he is en- 
abled to supply the trade promptly with the choicest grades and 
brands of coffees and spices, in quantities to suit, and at prices 
which are rarely duplicated by rival concerns. He handles the 
finest spices brought to the United States, including Singapore, 
Sumatra and white pepper : Cayenne pepper, China and Saigon 
cassia. Pimento, Amboynia and Zanzibar cloves ; African, Calcutta, 
and Cochin ginger, unbleached Jamaica ginger, nutmegs, mace, 
etc. The trade is strictly of a wholesale character, and the house 
numbers among its permanent customers the leading spice mills, 
jobbers and wholesale grocers in Boston and the principal cities 
and towns of the United States. Mr. Curtis is a native Bostonian 
and a recognized authority in this branch of trade. 

ANDREW L. McCLEERY, Sawing, Planing and Moulding, 
Nos. 30 and 32 Lancaster Street.— This busines.s was estab- 
lished here in 1883. and has been prosecuted with marked 
ability and steadily increasing popularity. The premises 
occupied are spacious in size, and the appointments are of the 
most complete and finished character. The outfit of machinery is 
perfect, including every late and valuable invention calculated 
to promote production, together with ample steam power, while 
a competent force of skilled assistants contribute to the satisfac- 
tory operations of the house. Skilful attention is given to every 
description of sawing, planing and turning, and estimates are 
promptly furnished for the execution of all orders and commis- 
sions for any part of wood-work for buildings, materials, mould- 
ings or interior finish. The best of skilled labor is employed in 
every case, and the several stages of completion are guarded with 
scrupulous vigilance and care. The house is at all times prepared 
to fill its current oi'ders with promptness and thorough satisfaction. 



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WALKER & PRATT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
JIanufactuieis of Heating and Cooking Apparatus, Nos. 
31 to 35 Union Street.— In the production of lieating and 
coolcing apparatus, American manufacturers are a long 
way aliead of tliose of otlier couutries. Gre.at improvements liave 
also been made latterly in ail kinds of stoves and ranges by our 
niauulacturers, wliicli increase their efficiency and capacity with- 
out a proportionate addition ni the consumption of fuel. In this 
connection, special reference is made in thiscommercial review of 
Boston to the representative and progressive Walker & Pratt 
Manufacturing Company, who manufacture extensively a com- 
plete assortment of hotel and family cooking apparatus, furnaces, 
ranges, laundry stoves, sectional steam boilers radiators, water 
heaters, etc. The conipany's stoves and ranges are unequalled for 
economy in the consumption of fuel, durability, quality and ele- 
gance, and are the embodiments of mechanical workmanship of 
the highest order of perfection. The company's office and sales- 
rooms are located at Nos. 31 to 35 Union Street. This business w.as 
established in 1858 by Mr. Geo. W. Walker, who in 1804 admitted 
into partnership Mr. Horace E. Walker, the Arm being known by 
the style and title of Geo. W. Walker & Co. In 1874 the firms of 
Geo. \V. Walker & Co. and Miles, Pratt & Co.. an old and well-e.s- 
tablished firm, manufacturers of furnaces, ranges and stoves, at 
Watertown, Mass., amalgamated under the title of Walker, Pratt 
& Co. Eventually, in 1877, the business was duly incorporated un- 
der the laws of Massachusetts with a paid-up capital of $3^10,000 
The following were the officers: Geo. W. Walker, president; 
Miles Pratt, treasurer: Geo. W. W'alker, Miles Pratt, Horace E. 
Walker and W. G. Lincoln, directors, all of whom are now dead 
with the e.xception of Mr. Geo. W. Walker, who is now president 
and owner of one-third the stock. Mr. Walker came to Boston 
forty years ago with but six dollars in his pocket. He worked both 
in Boston and Troy, N. Y., where by energy .and industry he ac- 
quired the necessary experience and capital for the success of the 
growing and important industry of which he is now the president. 
Mr. Walker resides at Maiden, where he was chairman of the se- 
lectmen two years prior to its incorporation as a city. He was a 
Republican representative in 1885 and 1886 to the Massachusetts 
legislature, and has also filled several other important offices. 
The foundry and works of the Walker & Pratt Manufacturing 
Company are situ,ated at Watertown Mass. These are equipped 
with the latest improved machinery, apparatus and appliances, 
and furnish employment in their several departments to some 
250 men. Everything connected with the works of this reliable 
company reflects the greatest credit upon its management for in- 
genuity, skill and .attention to details, while the executive ability 
displa.ved in carrying on such an extensive establishment merits 
the commendation of the public. The Boston store is a spacious 
five story warehouse 50xl0t) feet in area. It is fully stocked with a 
complete assortment of the company's goods and specialties, large 
quantities of which are also exported to South America, 
Europe, Africa and Australia through the medium of sev- 
eral of our noted commission houses. In conclusion, we 
would observe that the affairs of the Walker and Pratt 
Manufacturing Company are now under the care and man- 
agement of able and responsible officers. 

PE. EDDY, Insurance Agency. No. 44 Kilby Street.— The 
fire insurance companies of the United States must 
J always take a prominent position in tlie business world 
as institutions, practical, beneficent and indispensable. 
These companies invariably place their interests in the control of 
gentlemen who have earned an honorable reputation in this im 
portant branch of busine.ss. Among the most prominent insur- 
ance agents of Boston is Mr. P. E. Eddy, of No. 44 Kilby Street. 
This gentleman has been an insurance agent and broker for a 
period of twenty-five years, and now represents the following well 
known and thoroughly responsible corporations, viz: the Mer- 
chants Insurance Company, of Providence, K. I.; the Fireman.s' 
Fund Insurance Company, of San Francisco, Cal. ; the Commerce 
Insurance Company, of Albany, N. Y. : the Albany Insurance 
Company, of Albany, N. \'. ; and the Packers and Provision Dealers' 
Insurance Company, of Chicago, 111., whose combined net cash 
assets of nearly 83,0(Xi,000 furnish .attractive ,and undoubted secu- 
rity to policy holders. As a thoroughly con.scientious and experi- 



enced underwriter, Mr, Eddy olfers tlie most substantial induce 
ments and advantages to the public, including lowest market 
rates .and carefully drawn policies, while all losses sustained are 
equitably adjusted and promptly paid tlirough this agency. Mr. 
Eddy is at all times prepared to take entire charge of the insur- 
ance of properties, placing and distributing risks among sound 
companies only and giving careful attention to the insurance 
interests placed in his hands. As a responsible and painstaking 
agent and broker, Mr. Eddy enjoys the ctnfldence of his patrons. 

LB. WHEILDON & CO., Real Estate Brokers, Room No. 62, 
No 85 Water Street.— The superiority of mortgages on im- 
^ proved real estate in the west to all other forms of secur- 
ity is readily apparent. Among the prominent dealers 
in first-class mortgages of this class in Boston none possess better 
facilities for prosecuting a safe and reliable business tlian the firm 
of Messrs. L. B. Wheildon & Co., the well-known real estate 
brokers, whose office is eligibly located at No. 85 Water Street, in 
the dishing Building. This firm are engaged extensively in hand 
ling securities on St. Paul and Minneapolis improved real estate, 
representing the firm of G<age& Whitney, bankers and brokers of 
St. Paul. The members of the flrin, Messrs. L. B. Wheildon and 
L. A. Whitney, are both gentlemen of large experience in the real 
estate business, and liave started operations under the most favor- 
able circumstances for ultimate and permanent success. The 
western property holder invariably borrows to extend his enter- 
prise and enlarge his field of operations, thus adding in all cases to 
the original security. In the e.ast, money borrowed on bond and 
mortgage is vei'y seldom expended on the security, but goes some 
other way. Hence the .advantage to the "lender in the one case 
over the other western cities pay a much larger percentivge if of 
equal value than eastern securities, or than can be given on east- 
ern investments. Investigation of the securities dealt in by 
Messrs. Wheildon & Co., will convince the most credulous of the 
safety and profit afforded by an investment therein, and we advise 
all who desire greater interest with the utmost security to commu- 
nicate with this firm, believing, .as we have reason to, that all in- 
terests entrusted to their management and care will be scrupu- 
lously guarded and intelligently promoted. Mr. Wheildon is a 
native of Boston, was formerly connected with the house of 
Dwight, Brainan & Co., brokers, of this city, and stands well in 
business, fln,ancial and real est<ate circles. Mr. Whitney is a mem- 
ber of the banking firm of Gage & Whitney, of St. Paul, and is 
well and favorably known in th.at thriving city. 

KNOWLES & CO., Grain Shippers, No. 75 State Street.- In 
making suitable reference to those representative con- 
cerns that are materially contributing to the commercial 
growth and prosperity of this city, prominence should be 
given to the house of Knowles & Co., the well-known grain ship- 
pers, at No. 75 State Street. The proprietor, Mr. Geo. H. Knowles, 
is ail extensive buyer and shipper of grain, by car and cargo lots, 
supplying millers, jobbers and dealers throughout New England 
in quantities to suit, and at tlie shortest possible notice. He has 
been engaged in the business for a period of twenty years, being 
formerly a member of the firm of Knowles & Coon, and opened his 
present office in 1886. He has developed a connection of a very 
superior character, bringing a wide range of experience to bear, 
and is a recognized authority in grain shipping circles. He num- 
bers among his pernmnent customer? many leading millers and 
merchants throughout the different New England States, .and has 
built up a large and influential patronage, which is of a character 
to form the best possible assurance of his continued success and 
increasing prosperity in the future. He makes a speciiilty of car 
and cargo lots of grain of every kind, and Is in a position to 
promptly fill the largest orders to the letter, while his facilities on 
'cliange enable him to offer the most substantial inducements to 
buyers, whose interests are sedulously protected by his vigilance 
and care. Mr. Knowles is a n.ative of Nashua, N. H., a well-known 
citizen of Boston, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, still in 
the prime of life, and thoroughly enterprising, liberal and reliable 
in all his business methods and dealings. Mr. Knowles owns the 
larger part and has control of the Nashua Street Railway of 
Nashua, New Hampshire and devotes considerable time to that en- 
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GEO. F. ROACH & CO., Maliutacturers and Dealers in 
Chamber Furniture, Cliairs of Every Variety, Etc., Nos. 107 
to 131 Fulton Street, and Nos. 134 to 144 Commercial Street. 
—The leading exponent ot the wholesale home and export 
trade in tlie staple grades of chamber and dining furniture in Bos- 
ton, New England, etc., is the popular and enterprising house of 
Messrs. George F. Roach & Co., of Fnlton and Commercial Streets, 
and for the accommodation of whose enormous stock, no less than 
an acre of floor space is required. This is an old as well as solid 
and ably conducted business. It was founded by Mr. Otis W. Mer- 
riam over forty years ago, succeeded by Otis W. Merriam & Co., 
and followed about fifteen years ago by Geo. F. Roach & Co. Mr. 
Koach having a wide range ot practical experience at command 
and the entire conlidence of the commercial world. Three years 
after, Mr. Roach organized the firm of Roach, Bradbury& Co., and 
eventually, after it dissolved, carried on the business alone, until 
four years ago when Mr. Sanmel H. Mayo was admitted under tlie 
existing name and style. The house is now the largest in the 
United States devoted to the trade in medium grades of chamber 
furniture. The partners are pushing business men, experienced 
and exercising superior executive abilities. They know exactly 
what the home and foreign trade want, and making quality their 
first consideration, are enabled to retain old customers while con- 
stantly making new ones. A glance at their facilities and extent 
of establishment will indicate the importance of tliis great con- 
cern to Boston's commerce. They occupy seven buildings on Fulton 
Street, all connecting, each four stories in height, and 25x60feetin 
dimensions. Here are the offices (No. 121 Fulton Street.) vastsales- 
roonis and furnishing rooms. On Commercial Street are three addi- 
tional buildings, each four stories in height, devoted to storage, with 
finishing shops, etc. An average force of thirty-flve hands are here 
employed in the manufacture, hnishing and packing of the finest 
quality of chestnut, ash and painted cliamber furniture, cane and 
wood seat chairs of every variety, tables, etc. Carefully boxed 
furniture for shipping is a specialty, and the firm do a most exten- 
sive export trade to the British Provinces, Africa, South and Cen- 
tral America, West Indies, etc. Tliey have permanently main- 
t,ained the lead as to prices and quality and their connections in- 
clude the leading retail furniture dealers of New England. Mr. 
Roach has been a permanent resident of Boston for forty years 
past, and is one of our self-made men, coming here with only 
$1.50 in cash, but an abundant capital of physical vigor, mental 
ability, energy and enterprise, and he soon made himself useful 
and popular and is now in the furniture trade truly representa- 
tive of its best and most equitable methods. He is a respected 
member of the Masonic Order, being in the thirty-third degree, and 
a valued member of connnercial circles. Mr. Samuel H, Mayo is 
an authority in the furniture trade, and the house of Messrs. 
George F. Roach A Co., is in every way, a most valuable factor in 
promoting Boston's prosperity. 

HEATH & COMPANY, Apothecaries, No. 635 Washington. 
Street.— One of Boston's oldest and finest drug stores is the 
well-equipped and eleg.ant pharmacy, of Heath & Co. 
Apothecaries, (successors to A. Littlefield, and John I. 
Brown & Son.) which is desirably located at No. 635 Washington 
Street, opposite Essex, Street. It is a commodious, attrac- 
tive and in all respects, first-class establishment, where physi- 
cians' prescriptions and family recipes are compounded in the most 
accurate and reliable manner, in every instance from absolutely 
pure and best quality ingredients, while bottom prices also prevail 
here. This time-honored and excellent pharmacy was originally 
established in 1820, by John I. Brown, the style subsequently 
changing to John I. Brown & Son, who were in turn succeeded by 
O. Littlefield & Co., by whom it was conducted up to 1882, when 
W. B. Heath assumed control, and under the firm name of He.ath 
& Company, has since continued the business with uninterrupted 
success. The store which is 20x90 feet in dimensions, with beauti- 
ful tile flooring, is very tastefully appointed, and well ordered in 
every respect, while three competent .assistants are in attendance ; 
the firm having recently added to its attractiveness by the in- 
troduction of one of Tuft's modern soda water fountains, and they 
now make a specialty of all kinds of choice temperance drinks. 
A large and carefully selected stock is constantly kept on hand, 
including besides pure and fresh drugs, medicines, chemicals, 



acids, extracts, essences, alcohol, spirits, pure medicinal wines 
and liquors, mineral waters, herbs, barks and kindred pharniaceu- 
tical specialties of every description, also a complete and fine line 
of perfumes, fancysoaps, toilet articles, sponges, chamois and drug- 
grists' sundries in great variety; special attention being given to 
prescriptions, and, altogether, a large and influential patroi\age is 
received. Mr. Heath, who is a comparatively young man and a 
native of this city, is a gentleman of courteous manners and the 
highest personal integrity, as well as a thoroughly practical and 
responsible apothecary, with ample experience in the laboratory 

INGALLS, BROWN & CO., Leather, No. 137 Summer Street.— 
In referring to the business transacted in leather in Boston, 
we have particular occasion to note the house of Ingalls, 
Brown & Co. , as being prominent for the enterprise and energy 
with wliieli its operations are conducted. It was established in 
1881 by Mr. John B. Ingalls, who has been identified with the trade 
for more than eighteen years, and Mr. S. H. Brown Jr., who has also 
had a long experience in the business, compose the firm. Tliey are 
both natives of New England, and conducted their operations with 
that energy and careful attention, which has always distinguished 
them in their dealings ami which have been the means of es- 
tablishing tlie prestige and reputation the house enjoys in commer- 
cial circles. They represent some of the leading manufactuiers of 
goat, kid and morocco of southern finish, and are well equipped 
for meeting the demands of the boot and shoe manufacturers, and 
control a large substantial permanent trade, widely diffused 
throughout New England. The business connections of tlie firm 
are first-class and the goods handled are superior in quality and 
very desirable, and the house will be found one of the best with 
which to form business relations, as the very lowest market prices 
are always quoted. 

SEWELL & DAY CORDAGE COMPANY, Nos. 83 and 85 Commer- 
cial Street.— The production of cordage and oakum in large 
quantities occupies an important place in the list of promi- 
nent manufacturing industries, that have reached a high 
state of development and growth in New England. In this con- 
nection, we desire to make special reference in this commercial 
review of the trade and industries of Boston, to the old established 
and representative Sewell & Day Cordage Company, whose office 
and store are located at Nos. 83 and 85 Commercial Street. This 
business was established many years ago by Messrs. Sewell & 
Day, the firm name changing from time to time, until ISSD, when it 
was duly incorporated under the laws of Mass., with a capital 
stock of $600,000. The factory, which is one of the largest in New 
England is equipped with improved m,acliinery. and furnishes con- 
stant employment from 40O to 500 operatives. The company manu- 
factures largely all kinds of manilla, sisal, and tarred coidaga 
also lines ami oakum. The cordage turned out by this company 
is unrivalled in quality. A large stock of all their manufactured 
goods is kept on hand by the company, and the trade ot the house 
extends throughout all sections of New England and the western 
states, as well as foreign countries. 

DM. OLIVER & CO., Pork, Lard, Hams, Bacon, Sausages, 
Tripe, Dried Beef, Beef, Tongues, Bologn.as, Etc., No. 
26 Faneuil Hall Market.— Among those prominently iden- 
tified with tlie trade in provisions in this city there 
is no firm enjoying a wider reputation than that of Messrs. 
D. M Oliver & Co., of No. 26 Faneuil Hall Market. Tlie 
business was established in 1860 by Oliver & Stet.son and after- 
wards continued by Mr. Oliver, and then by Oliver & Woodbridge, 
who carried it on for three years and were succeeded by the pres- 
ent firm. The oper-ations have always been ably managed and 
conducted and the business continued toenlarge from yearto year, 
capital and facilities exp.anding together until to-day the firm 
ranks equal with any other in the market. All kinds of provisions 
are dealt in, a specialty being made of pork, lard, hams, bacon, 
sausages, tripe, dried beef, tongues, bolognas, etc,, and a business 
transacted extending throughout Boston and vicinity, and the 
State of Massachusetts. Mr. Oliver, who is a native of Maine, has 
been a member of this community twenty-eight years, and earn 
estly engaged promoting such measures as seemed best calcu 
lated to encourage trade and advance the commercial prosperity. 



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CF. APPLETON, Gent's Fine Boots and Shoes, No. 238 Wash- 
ington Street.— Boston, as the gre,!! centre for tlie boot and 
slioe trade of the country, contains not only numerous 
wholesale, but many retail establishments engaged in this 
line, and some of these devote themselves exclusively to the hand- 
ling of special lines of footwear. The houseof Mr.C.F.Appleton, 
located at No. 238 Washington Street, furnishes an Illustration of 
this. The house confines itself entirely to dealing at i-etail in gen- 
tlemen's boots and shoes of fine and medium grades, and in this 
department has built up a very large and substantial trade and 
won wide-spread popul.arity by itsenterprisingand honorable busi- 
ness methods. Mr. Appleton founded his business ten years ago, 
and from the outset his career has been a most prosperous and pro- 
gressive one. Thi store presents a bright, tasteful and inviting 
appearance, the arrangements and furnishings being of a superior 



billiard tables at each place are available at a moderate charge 
for games, and smoking is allowed in that part of the room. It is 
found that these attractions draw In the floating population, the 
patronage is large every evening, and the best order invariably 
prevails. On Sunday the billiard 'liall is closed, and the day is 
kept quiet as possible. Both houses are kept open all night and 
meals are served at all hours. There is no question that a vast 
amount of good is accomplished by this company. Christian men 
are behind the enterprise, and it enjoys deservedly the confidence 
of the public. Mr. Farnsworth, the president of the company, was 
the principal founder of tliis enterprise, and is a gentleuiau known 
and honored throughout New England for liis philanthrophy, 
sound judgment and broad liberality, to whom the success and pros- 
perity of the movement is largely due. Mr. Ybarra, the treasurer, 
is a native of Venezuela, and formerly a general in the Venezuelan 




Boston 



character for securing the convenience of customers and the ample 
and effective displayot the slock carried. The stock is a large, care 
fully selected and comprehensive one, and embraces every descrip- 
tion of men's footwear— boots, shoes, slippers, rubbers, gaiters and 
shoe dealers' findings of all kinds. All the latest and most popular 
novelties are comprehended in the stock, and the prices are fi.fed 
at a point to insure quick sales, the policy of the proprietor being 
to do a brisk trade with small profits rather than have large profits 
and few sales. He numbers among his patrons many of our lead- 
ing merchants and professional men, and is personally very popu- 
lar with his customers. Mr. Appleton is a native of Boston and 
resides at Cambridge. 

ORIENTAL COFFEE HOUSE COMPANY, A. Ybarra, Treasurer, 
Ofhce, No. 7 Exchange Place.— One of the most deserving 
and beneficial enterprises ever Inaugurated pro 6onop?/6- 
lico in Boston was that established by the Oriental Coffee 
House Company in 1881. This company was incorporated under 
tlie laws of the state of Massachusetts, during the year named, 
with a capital of $20,000, and with Mr. Ezra Farnsworth, as presi- 
itlent; and Mr. A. Ybarr.a, as treasurer. Tliey started a small 
l)la=e.at Washington Street and Floral Place for the entertainment 
of the public, and in 1883 had opened two establishments, one at 
No. 985 Washington Street, and the other at No. 11 Green Street, 
These houses are now on a thoroughly satisfactory financi.al basis, 
feeding some fifteen hundred guests per day, and paying about six 
per cent, annu.ally to the two hundred stockholders. They furnish 
the best of coffee for a very few cents, while edibles of all kinds 
likely to be found in a good restaurant are provided at rates some 
twenty per cent below the prices elsewhere. Each of these houses 
occupies a large room on the street floor, and h,as a seating capac- 
ity at the small tables for one hundred; while a lunch counter, 
with steammg tanks of coffee, is ranged on one side. The rooms 
are made attr.ictive with mirrors and pictures; are well-lighted 
and neatly kept, and the aim is to furnish all the entertainment 
which the saloons offer, minus the liquors. To that end, h.ilf-a-dozen 



army. He is a practical coffee-planter of large and valuableex- 
perience, and receives his supplies of that beverage and chocolate 
direct from the fields of his native country. 

WM. TURNBULL & CO.. Dry Goods Commission Merchants, 
Nos. 57 and 59 Worth Street, No 220 Devonshire Street, 
Ebeu'r. D.ale. Agent.— The commission merchant and 
manufacturers' agent occupies a very important posi- 
tion in the industries of the present day. A prominent agent for 
one of the most conspicuous and reliable dry goods commission 
houses in the United States, is Mr. Ebenezer Dale. Mr. Dale is a 
native of this state and has been a resident of Boston many years, 
who having had many years' experience in the handling of dry 
goods, became thoroughly familiar with that trade in all its 
branches, and was made the agent or representative of the old and 
substantially established dry goods comnii.ssion concern of Messrs. 
Wm. Turnbull & Co., of Nos. 57 and 59 Worth Street, New York 
City, in 1873, and since the date of his becoming such has met with 
the most gratifying and unifcnm succe.ss. The house Mr. Dale rep- 
resents was founded originally in 1863 in New York, and is consid- 
ered one of the most reliable of its kind in tliat great metro|)olis. 
They are the selling agents for the celebrated Prauker Manufac- 
turing Company, of Saugus, Mass., and the Roxdale, whose pro- 
ductions of flannels and kindre(Karticles haveso excellent and ex- 
tensive a reputation for superiority, also agents for the Dexter 
Woolen Mills of Dexter, Maine, and sole agents of the Pontoosuc 
Woolen Manufacturing Company, of PittsHeld, Mass., whose goods 
have a wide celebrity for line quality also, and many other manu- 
facturing companies. Mr. Dale's office contains a full and com- 
plete line of samples of the products of those famous concerns. 
The entire Boston and New England tr,ade is supplied from this 
agency; all orders being shipped direct from the millsat manu- 
facturer's prices, by which means, a large saving of freight, trav- 
eling and incidental expenses Is saved to jobbers, and retailers. 
All orders by mail or telegraph are promptly filled at lowest possi- 
ble terms. 



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SIMMONS, AMSDEN & CO., Fruit and Vegetables, Stalls .Vos. 
96, 97 and 98; Cellar. No. 17, North Side.Faneuil Hall Market. 
—Among the articles of food which the people of Boston have 
superior facilities for procuring, and which tliey highly ap- 
preciate, are fruits, native and foreign, at all seasons of the year. 
One of the oldest and leading houses engaged in handling fruits 
and vegetables at botli wliolesale and retail, is that of Messrs. 
Simmons, Amsden & Co., in Faneuil Hall Market. This firm oc- 
cupy Stalls Nos.94, 96 and 98. and Cellar No. 17, north side. The 
facilities liere at hand for tlie transaction of a large business are 
unexcelled in the city, embracing, as they do, excellent cold stor- 
age and ripening rooms for foreign fruits, and every convenience 
tor the receipt and delivery of fruit with the least possible hand- 
ling. The business of this house was originally established in 
1S44. by Messrs. Harrison Porter and A. B. Simmons. In 1855 Mr. 
Porter died, and Mr.T. J, Amsden was admitted as a partner under 
the Arm name of A. B Simmons & Co. In 1864 Mr. D. E. Butter- 
fleld became a partner, and the firm name became as at present, 
Mr. Simmons died in 1872 and the businesshassinee been continued 
by the surviving partners without achangein thefirm'sstyle. The 
stock of tills house is a large and fresh one, green and ripe fruits 
and vegetables of all kinds arriving daily, and sales are made at 
both wholesale and retail in this city and throughout all parts of 
New England and the British Provinces. .'Shipments of fruit are 
received direct from Florida, including, in their season, oranges, 
lemons, bananas, peaches, apples, pears, grapes, figs, dates, citrons, 
nuts, sweet potatoes, onions, and rare fruits from Baracoa and 
Jamaica, while California also contributed largely to the domestic 
frnit, and generally commands attention and admiration for its 
good qualities. The trade is brisk and lively at all times, requir- 
ing in its transaction the service of a dozen or more clerks and 
.salesmen. Mr. Amsden is a native of New Hampshire, while Mr. 
Butterfield was born in Boston. Both gentlemen are closely 
allied to the advancement of the commercial prosperity of this 
city, and are in a position to offer .advantages in goods and prices 
rarely equalled by any of their contemporaries. 

WH. PRIOR, Successor to Hiscock & Prior, Mutton, Land) 
and Veal, Nos. 9 and 11 Faneuil Hall Market.— Among 
J the individual business enterprises carried on in 
Faneuil Hall Market there is none which enjoys a 
more deservedly high reputation than that conducted by Mr. W. 
H. Prior, the occupant of Stalls Nos. 9 and 11. The business here 
had its beginning as far back as forty-five years ago, and was 
founded then by Mr. Sewell Hiscoek. This gentleman subse- 
quently admitted at different dates his two sons, Sewell and 
Lowell B. Hiscock, as partner.s. After tlie founder had retired 
from the business the style of the firm w.as changed to Hiscoek & 
Winslow, and. later, Mr. Lowell B. Hiscoek bought his partner's 
interest, and then ran the business alone for about fifteen years. 
Then he formed a partnership with Mr. W. H. Prior, under the 
style of Hiscock & Prior. This partnership subsisted for about 
eight years, and until .January, 1887. when Mr. Hiscoek retired. 
Since then Mr. Prior has had the sole direction of the business, 
which has attained large proportions. Mr. Prior brings great ex- 
perience to bear upon his enterprise, and is quick to recognize and 
supply the wants of his trade, hence his patronage is drawn from 
the best people in the city, is large and steadily increasing. Here 
at all times can be found tiie best mutton, Iamb and veal, which 
are offered at prices not to be surpassed in the trade. The stock 
carried is necessarily an extensive one, and the trade is both 
wholesale and retail in its character. Four assistants and a deliv- 
ery wagon are kept busy in filling orders, and prompt and cour- 
teous attention is accorded to all patrons. Mr. Prior is a native 
of Boston, and a most pleasant gentleman with whom to establish 
business relations. 

QUINCY CLUB STABLE, Boarding, Hack .and Livei-y ; H. W. 
Miller, Manager, No. i'? Chardon Street.— One of the most 
important and popular boarding, hack and livery establish- 
ments in Boston is that known as the Quiney Club Stable, 
No. 23 Chardon Street, of which Mr. H. W. Miller is the enterpris- 
ing and energetic manager. Mr. Miller established this business 
two years ago and now commands a liberal and influential p.atron- 
age. The stables are spacious, well dr.ained, ventilated and 



lighted, and are in charge of careful grooms and stallmen. They 
have first-cliiss accommodations for 25D horses, and every care and 
attention are given to the animals entrusted to the proprietor. 
Mr. Miller has some of the most stylish and finest equipages to be 
seen in the city, and a stock of superior thoroughbred driving 
horses, which can be hired night or day for business purposes or 
pleasure on very moderate terms. Among the carriages are in- 
cluded some elegant hacks, coupes, landaus, barouches, etc., for 
drives, calls, shopping or weddings. In the stock of horses 
will be found some suitable for ladies to drive, and also some 
famous goers for those who desire to make lively movements on 
the road. Mr. Miller is an authority on the noble animal, and has 
in ills stables some of the crack horses of gentlemen residing in this 
vicinity. He conducts an extensive business in the livery depart- 
ment and also in boarding and taking care of horses, while he like- 
wise disposes of a number of animals by private sales. Orders left 
at the office of the Quiiicy House or No. 23 Chardon Street will re- 
ceive prompt attention. Mr. Miller is agent in Boston for the 
celebrated Merchants' Gargling Oil Liniment, which was intro- 
duced in 1833. It is the oldest and best liniment in the United 
States, and is invaluable for curing diseases in ni.an .and beiist. 
Mr. Miller in addition to ills extensive Quiney Club Stable, is also 
proprietor of the Washington House, Howard Street, 

TURNER & KAUPP, Silver Platers, and Repairers of Silver 
and Plated Ware, No. 338 Washington Street, Room 9.— 
After working at their trade many years, and becoming 
thoroughly competent in all its various branches Messrs. 
Turner & Kaupp founded this concern originally on Spring Lane 
in 1867, and owing to the increase of patronage tliey were obliged 
to seek more commodious quarters and moved to Bromfield Street, 
where they remained until 1882 when they removed to their pres- 
ent location. The premises occupied are of ample size 30x35 feet 
in dimensions, of easy access and situated in the very centre of 
.all lines in their business. They are admirably .arranged and 
.adapted for the purpose and equipped with all the latest and best 
improved machinery and tools operated by steam and manual 
Labor both as occasion requires, and a corps of .skilful and experi- 
enced workmen are employed constantly in filling the orders, of 
which they are in d.aily receipt. The firm is prepared to execute 
.all kinds of silver, gold .and nickel plating for the trade, also 
electro bronzing, and oxydizing, zyprus, copper and other colors 
at the shortest notice and in the most satisfactory manner. 
Everything in the line of silver-plating is most successfully ac- 
complished, particular attention being given to repairing and re- 
plating hotel, i-estaurant and private wares, also plumbers' 
materials, car, coach, and harness trimmings, house builders' 
hardware, etc., and in fact everything included in the line of 
plated ware. The individual members of this concern are Mr. 
John B. Turner an Englishman by birth, but a resident of Boston 
for many years having served a faithful apprenticeship and 
learned his trade here, and his partner Mr. Andrew Kaiipp is a 
native of Germany, who also came to the United States when 
quite young .and likewise .acquired his knowledge of the business 
in this city. 

JH. OSGOOD & CO., Printers' Rollers, No. 100 Jlilk Street.— 
This business was established twenty-one years ago by Mr. 
^ J. H. Osgood, who eventually in 1878 admitted his brother 
into partnership. In 1883 on the retirement of his brother, 
Mr. Osgood became sole proprietor. The premises occupied com- 
prise a spacious floor 2.5x100 feet in area, fully supplied with every 
a!)plianee .and f.acility for the successful prosecution of the busi- 
ness. Mr. Osgood manufactures to order or otherwise all sizes of 
printers' rollers. These specialties are unrivalled for finish, 
quality, durability and excellence, and have no superiors in this or 
any other marl<et, while the prices quoted are as low as the lowest. 
Mr. Osgood is sole proprietor of Osgood's Patent Composition, 
which is unsurpassed for durability, strength and utility, and is a 
general favorite with the trade wherever intioduced. The trade 
of this progressive house extends throughout New England and 
the provinces and is steadily increasing. IMr. Osgood was born in 
D.anvers, and has been a resident of Peabody, Mass., tor the last 
fifteen years, and is well known in his special line of industry 
throughout this vicinity. 



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BRIGHAM & PILLSBURY, General Commission Mercliants, 
Ship and Steamship Agents. Boston Agents, Beaver Line 
of Steamers, to Liverpool, No. 38 Central Street.— An im- 
portant factor in the importing and commission trade ol 
Boston is the widely-known house of Messrs. Brigham & Pillsbury, 
general commission merchants, ship and steamship agents, at No. 
S? Central Street. The business of this house was originally 
establislied in 1851, by J. B. Brigham & Co., who were succeeded 
by tlie present Arm in 1888. They are extensive connuission mer- 
chants in general merchandise and produce for European local 
mercliants, receiving consignments daily from the best manufac- 
turing and producing sources, and conducting their immense busi- 
ness on the most liberal and enterprising methods. As steamship 
agents, tliey represent in Boston the Beaver Line of steamers to 
Liverpool, and are prepared to make custom entries at the most 
reasonable rates. Consignments are solicited, promptly acknowl- 
ledged and carefully handled, with profit to the shipper in all 
cases. They have an extensive and influential connection with 
the best sources of supply in Venezuela, Mexico and the West 
Indies, and in all matters relating to the shipping trade from those 
countries they are prepared to transact business after the most 
approved modern methods. In the ship brokerage Sir. Pillsbury 
has an extensive acquaintance and large correspondence with the 
leading sliippers and ship owners in the United States, Canada, 
West Indies, South America and Europe, and is making a specialty 
of tliis branch. The experience enjoyed by the proprietors in 
those regions gives them peculiar advantages in this market, 
while their high character for business reliability and personal 
worth is a sufficient assurance that all orders will receive prompt 
and satisfactory attention. Mr. Brigham, the senior partner and 
founder of the business, is a native Bostonian, a member of the 
Cliamber of Commerce, Trustee of the Penny Savings Bank, and 
prominently identified with the commercial growth and material 
prosperity of this city in many ways Mr. A. F. Pillsbury, the 
junior member of the firm, was born in Rockland, Me., and was 
formerly a master of a vessel. Both are highly regarded in ship- 
ping and trade circles, and have won success and popularity by 
honest, enterprising and legitimate methods of dealing. 

LM. DYER, Commission Dealer in Mutton, Lamb and Veal, 
Nos. 2 and 4 Quincy Market.— The house of L. M. Dyer, at 
Nos. 2 and 4 Quincy Market, has long been prominent in 
tills city, and has achieved a well merited reputation both 
at home and abroad as a leader in the commission trade in mutton, 
lamb and veal. Tliis house was founded in 1840 by Jlr. L. M. Dyer, 
who is well and favorably known in this city and throughout New 
England as an experienced merchant and a solid and substantial 
business man. In 1882 he admitted his son, Mr. F. W. Dyer, to 
partnership, without cliange in firm name. This house slaughters 
its own meats, handling mutton, lamb and veal exclusively, and 
conducting their business principally at wholesale. They exercise 
great care in the selection of their stock and in preparing it for 
market, and can make good the claim for offering the trade and 
consumers a line of meat products that cannot be excelled. They 
are prepared to supply hotels, restaurants, steamers, sailing ves- 
sels, dealers and families with these meats in quantity to suit, fresh 
killed and guaranteed perfect in wholesomeness and preservation, 
at prices which challenge competition. Orders from patrons are 
filled with promptness and care, and a force of sixteen skilled 
hands contribute to the satisfactory operations of tlie house. 
Having always been earnest in their endeavors to please, the 
Messrs. Dyer have established a reputation and a trade through- 
out New England that few of their contemporaries can equal. 
The Messrs. Dyer are natives of Boston, highly esteemed in both 
social and commercial circles for their strict probity and personal 
worth, and eminently popular with their host of permanent 
patrons. 

SC. TRYON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Beef, Pork, 
Lard, Hams, Bacon, Etc., Stalls, Nos. 12 and 13 New 
Faneuil Hall Market.— There are few business places in 
the city which can show a larger congregation of old 
established and reputable business men than New Faneuil Hall 
Market. Here are located merchants who have been engaged in 
the trade of supplying the people with food products for periods 



ranging from over half a century downwards. Mr. S. C. Tryon 
has tor the past thirty-two years been tlie occupant of stalls Nos. 
12 and 13, and is one of the best known among the old established 
business men in the market. His stall is a commodious one, is 
neatly fitted up. and is a model of cleanliness and order. Here is 
daily displayed a splendid stock of choice cuts of beef and pork, 
and also hams, bacon, lard, tripe, sausages, pigs' feet, etc., in great 
variety. The stock, too, is renewed daily, and is kept fresh and 
wholesome. The supplies are drawn from the most reliable 
sources, and is selected with great care and excellent judgment to 
meet the requirements of a first-class trade. The prices ruling 
here will compare favorably with those of any other concern in 
the same line, the policy pursued by the proprietor being that ot 
relying on small profits to secure a brisk and active trade. This is 
the secret of his success, and he now controls a business which has 
its ramifications throughout tlie whole ot New England, the trade 
being of both a wholesale and retail character. Particular atten- 
tion is given to family oi-ders, and special rates are quoted tor 
hotels, restaurants and boarding houses. Mr. Tryon is a native 
ot Maine, and during his long residence In Boston has earned the 
reputation of being a straightforward business man. 

GEO. H. CHESSMAN & CO., (Successors to Hiland, Chessman & 
Co.), General Commission and Produce Dealers, Basement, 
No. 21 South Side Faneuil Hall Market. -There is no branch 
of trade in this great commercial community ot more direct 
value and importance to people than that of produce commission. 
One of the most enterprising and oldest established houses in this 
line is that of Messrs. George H. Chessman & Co., whose office and 
salesroom are located in Basement No. 21 Faneuil Hall Market 
(South Side). This business was founded forty-tour years ago un- 
der the firm style of Hall & Chessman. In 1871 this firm was re- 
organized and became Hiland, Chessman & Co., who dissolved 
partnership in 1886. In June of that year the present firm ot 
George H. Chessman & Co. was formed, the members of the con- 
cern being Mr. George H. Chessman, Mr. S. B. Elvvell and Mr. J. 
M. Sullivan The latter is a native ot Canada, and the two former 
were born in Boston. Mr. Chessman has been identified with the 
produce trade in Faneuil Hall Market tor tlie past forty-seven years, 
and is one of the most experienced, best known and most popular 
men in the business. The present firm since its inauguration has 
earned an excellent reputation for the prompt and careful man- 
ner in which the disposal ot all consignments are attended to, the 
extensive and influential connections ot the concern enabling the 
proprietors to do full justice to the largest wholesale invoices. 
The business premises are commodious and are fully supplied with 
cold storage, etc. Messrs. George H. Chessman & Co. handle large 
quantities ot country produce ot every description, including for- 
eign as well as domestic fruits and vegetables consigned to tliem 
by producers. The transactions ot tlie firm are entirely of a 
wholesale character, and the house nnmbers among its customers 
many of the best known shippers, jobbers, grocers, etc., not only 
ot Boston, but of New England and Canada. 

GEORGE B.WILCOX, Book, Job and Programme Printer, Elec- 
trotyping and Stereotyping, No. 299 Washington Street. 
—Among the well conducted establishments in tlie com- 
mercial or job printing line in this city will be found 
that of Mr. George B. Wilcox, located at No. 299 Washington 
Street. Mr. Wilcox began business at the present site in 1886 
and in the interval by superior work and prompt and satis- 
factory execution ot orders has secured a large and liberal 
patronage made up ot the best local custom. The spacious 
premises are fitted up in a manner appropriate to the business, 
the presses— four in number, are of the newest and best im- 
proved type, operated by steam power and a competent force ot 
experienced printers is employed. Everything in the line of book 
and job printing is executed in the highest degree of artistic and 
mechanical excellence, a specialty being made ot fine programme 
work. Electrotyping and stereotyiiing are also done in the most 
skilful manner, estimates are furnished on all work when desired 
and the prices are the lowest possible for first-class service. Mr. 
Wilcox, is thoroughly conversant with and experienced in the 
business in hand and popularly regarded among his many patrons 
as one of the oldest city job printers. 



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AT. FOGG, Alt Embroideries and Materials for Interior 
Decorations, No. 5 Hamilton Place.— Amon<; the indus- 
trial occupations of American trade and commerce, we 
Hud the manufacture of ladies' and children's under- 
wear, in its distinctive cliaracter. to be one of vast importance 
and magnitude in every large community. No house has been so 
successful in concentrating this trade and in directing attention 
to the city of Boston as a source of supply as that of A. T. Fogg, 
located at No. 5 Hamilton Place. The proprietress of this estab- 
lishment has introduced a system of improved under garments tor 
ladies and children which takes a front rank in this line in tiie 
esteem and popularity of every community wherever it has been 
tested, and deserves more tlian ordinary mention in this review. 
The object of improved under-clothing 'or ladies and children is 
to reduce as much as possible the number of articles worn, by 
co)iil)inati()ii, to equ.alize the temperature of the body by clothing 
all parts alike, and to suspend all clothing from tlie shoulders. 
Many ladies liave been discouraged from wearing the combination 
suits because of liaving been unsuccessful in procuring a satis- 
factory article. Attention is called in this connection, to the fact 
that these combination suits, both cotton and flannel, are cut from 
measure in a style peculiar to tliis house, and a good-fltting, com- 
fortable garment is always warranted. While recommending the 
improved style, and making a specialty of its mnnufacture, this 
house will make any article of underwear for ladies or children, 
from patterns furnished by the customer or cut here. The pro- 
prietress also recommends for infants an 'mproved style of under- 
clothing upon the same plan as that tor grown people, and having 
the same objects in view. The pinning blanket is made with 
waist and skirt in one piece. The flannel skirt is also made with 
waist and skirt in one piece, and all tight bands around the body 
are avoided, leaving the limbs and muscles perfect freedom. Slips 
and dresses are made in -the usual manner, and for any price. 
Among the specialties made by this house are the knit suit, or 
union under-flannel, which is made for ladies and children, and 
can be nade of any tliickness;desired, furnished ready-made or to 
order: the ciiemiloon, suited for misses as well as ladies, combin- 
ing cliemise, drawers, and corset cover in one piece: the Gabrielle 
or Princess skirt, combining skirt and corset cover; the Sanitas or 
Absorbent Pad, extremely soft and comfortable; Gray & Foster's 
Abdominal Supporter, the cheapest thing in the market: the 
Emancipation Waist, intended to take tiie place of corset, corset 
cover and chemise, ready made for ladies or to order for ladies 
and children ; the Corded Corset, intended to take the place of the 
ordinary stiff corset, c.irds being used in place of bones; also, 
drawers, Tampico bosom forms, ladies' skirt supporters, dress 
drawers, hose supporters, ladies' safety suspenders, and union 
under flannels in Scotch wool, and heavy merino. This house also 
makes a specialty of imported w.ash silks, and handles art 
embroideries and materials of the Nnest description for interior 
decorations. The business has been successfully conducted here 
since 1876, and is recognized as an important and valuable factor 
in the mercantile activity of this great metropolis. 

GEO. R. CLARKE Si CO., Interior Decorations, No. 48 Boylston 
Street.— The art furnishing rooms of Geo. R. Clarke & Co., 
No. 4S Boylston Street, are well known to every one in Bos- 
ton, who has had occasion to think of beautifying a home. 
Mr. Clarke combines, with an educated and reflned taste, a great 
power of absorbing and realizing the individual wants of his cus- 
tomers and embodying them in furniture and decoration. His 
long experience as an architect gives an artistic value and har- 
mony to his work which places it above that of the genera! decor- 
ator. The firm make a specialty of stained glass, both ecclesiasti- 
cal and domestic, and their rooms are full of the latest conceits in 
tiling of .all kinds, from all parts of the world. Their wood man- 
tels are fine in design and execution, and difticult indeed must be 
the taste that could not And something to satisfy it among the 
numerous samples presented. The firm also carry a full line of 
fire-place fittings. They will soon leave their present quarters and 
move to the fine building now in process of construction vvhicii 
they expect will be ready tor them in the fail. Any one desiring 
furnishings from a single room to an entire house may rest assured 
of being served with the best workmanship and the most reflned 
taste, if they leave their affairs in the hands of this firm. 



J NEWMAN & SONS, Floral Artists, No. 51 Tremont Street. 
Suffolk Bank Building.— There is not perhaps witliiu tlie 
^ entire range of activity in the United States any branch of 
industry, science or art in wiiieh more steady and remark- 
able progress has been made of late years than floriculture, what 
with invention, improved f.iciiities and the development of artistic 
skill, the advance made in this direction during the past quarter of 
a century has been among the notable features of the times ; and 
now the shrine of flora need never lack gifts both fresh and green 
any season of the year. And while on this subject special mention 
ought here be given to .1. Newman & Sons, the well and favorably 
known floral artists, of No. 51 Tremont Street, who rank among tlie 
very foremost exponents of the art In Boston. For variety, origin- 
ality and novelty in designs, or for exquisite workmanship, 
promptness and reliability in executing orders, Messrs. Newman 
maintain a reputation second to none in their line in this city, wliile 
their patronage, which is large and influential, is fully commensur- 
ate with tiie name and standing of the flrm, extending all over the 
New England States. This flourishing business was established in 
1870 by Mr. J. Newman, who continued alone up to 1876, wnen he 
admitted to partnership his sons J. K., and A. H. Newman, and iiiuler 
tlie style of J. Newman & Sons, it has since been conducted with 
uninterrupted success, the senior member, however, retiring from 
active connection three years ago. The nurseries and conserva- 
tory of the firm, which are located at Winchester, cover an acre 
and a half of ground, are supplied with every facility and com- 
pletely equipped with all the latest improved appliances and gen- 
eral appurtenances, while a large force of help— some fifteen,, all 
told— is employed. The store on Tremont Street iseligiblysituated 
in tlie Suffolk Bank building, and is ample, comp.act and tastefully 
appointed, several competent assistants being in attendance. An ex 
ceedingly fine assortment is constantly carried on hand iiicludiiig 
choice cut flowers, roses and bouquets, (fresh and fragrant daily,), 
wreaths, rustic work, baskets, crosses, pillows, anchors, harps and 
emblematic floral designs in great variety, also plants, bulbs, 
mosses, gr.asses, etc., special attention being given to artistic 
funeral designs, and all orders are executed in tlie most expedi- 
tious and excellent manner, at reasonable rates. 

SAMUEL HANO COMPANY, Manufacturers exclusively of 
Manifold Books, Factories at Allston, Mass., No. 105 Summer 
Street.— Tlie earliest record of the invention and use of man- 
ifold paper dates back to tiie year 1808, when Raliih Wedge- 
wood, of Loudon, recorded his claim for a patent. But it was not 
until seventy years after, when Samuel Hano& Co., establislied 
their business in Mass.ichusetts, that manifold books became gen- 
erally known and used throughout the United States. To the 
efforts of this reliable house is due the fact that manifold books 
have become regarded as a necessityinmany brandies of business, 
and that at the present day there are one hundred people using 
them where there was one ten years ago. The firm of Saiiiuel 
Hano & Co., continued to expand and prosper until 1887, when the 
Samuel Hano Company was incorporated, with Louis Hano, presi- 
dent: J. L. Hano, vice-president; J. W. Sanders, secretary: Sam- 
uel Hano, treasurer and general manager. This company now en- 
joy a reputation and a trade that is practically world-wide, as 
manufacturers exclusively of manifold books, with factories at 
Allston, Mass., and salesrooms at No. 105 Summer Street in tliis 
city. The factory at Allston is the largest and best-equipped in- 
stitution of its kind in the country, supplied with every modern 
improvement and appli.ance tending to facilitate rapid and perfect 
production, while constant employment is given to a force of one 
hundred and twenty-five skilled hands. The output is one of great 
magnitude and importance, and he.avy shipments are continually 
made to all parts of the United States, while a fine growing export 
trade is enjoyed with England iind other foreign countries. The 
manifold books bearing the imprint of the Samuel Hano Company 
can be recommended to all who have occasion to write in duplicate 
as the simplest, cheapest and best process ever offered to the pub- 
lic, and are so regarded by all who have used them. A complete 
stock is consLantly carried at the Boston s,alesrooms, where orders 
of any magnitude are filled at the shortest possible notice, at terms 
and prices which are invariably satisf.ictory to the trade. The 
founder of the business and its present manager, Mr. Samuel Hauo, 
held in the highest esteem by the business community. 



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CHESTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Suspendeis,Biaces, 
Etc., No. 84 Bedford Street.— Among the many prosperous en- 
terprises located upon this great business avenue of tlie city 
will be found that which is made the immediate subject of 
the present sketch. The Chester Manufacturing Company, was or- 
ganized and began lousiness at the present site in the latter part 
of 1SS7. and from the start the enterprise has had a substantial and 
rapid growth. The spacious premises are conveniently arranged, 
and all requisite business facilities are supplied in the generally 
complete equipment of the establishment. The manufactured 
product comprises a large and varied assortment of suspenders, 
braces, etc., a specialty being made of the Chester Brace, whicli 
deserves more than a passing mention. The brace is the invention 
of the proprietor, Mr, A. A. Mandell, who has had a wide e.\per- 
ience in the business, having been for a number of years in charge 
of superintending the same line of manufactuie In the Chester 
Brace are embodied all thi idwntagei of foimei biaces with a 
total absence of some of tht ir musi sti ikuu ohjectiiin ible features. 




In this brace, the elastic i.s m a link connectmg tlie bueklesand 
back piece with the straps or parts attaching to tlie trousers, thus 
leaving the main portion of the suspender to be made of a light but 
strong web. an arrangement which does away entirelywiththedis- 
comfort experienced by wearers of an all elastic brace which is at 
all times liable to absorb perspiration, and while losing its elastic 
strength, increase in weight. The link mentioned is made of strands 
of pure rubber neatly encased in a knitted web, and while giving 
an abundance of elasticity— gives it in the right place The Ches- 
ter Brace, although, hardly introduced to the trade as yet already 
has a wide sale and is bound to soon supersede all the old style 
productions In this line to which it is decidedly superior in every 
respect. This company alsomanufactuiesmany elegant and taste- 
ful styles of suspenders and braces, the production of which gives 
employment to a goodly number of hands, and the trade which 
reaches tliroughout New England, and is still spreading— Is of 
prosperous, general aggregate. Mr. Mandell is agentleman in the 
prime of life, active, enterprising and able, and under his super- 
vision the business is fast assuming prosperous proportions. 

AD. PERKINS, Dealer in Mutton, Lamb and Veal. No. 1)^ 
Basement, Faneuil Hall Market.— The popular and well 
I patronized meat store in No. 1}^ Basement of Faneuil Hall 
Market was established over six years ago, by the present 
proprietor, Mr. A. D. Perkins, who has achieved a marked degree 
of success in his undertaking, and numbers among his permanent 
patrons many of the best known residents and dealers, not only in 
the city, but througliout the state of Massachusetts. The store is 
desirable and convenient in location, is roomy, is equipped with 
rclrigerators for the preservation of the food handled, and is pos- 
sessed of all needed facilities for the prompt and accurate execu- 
tion of all orders. A heavy stock of choice, fresh mutton, lamb 
and veal is always kept on hand, and these are warranted to be 
fresh and wholesome in quality when offered for sale. The stock 
is renewed daily from the most reliable sources of supply, and Mr. 
Perkins, who has had vast experience in the trade and is an excel- 
lent judge, exercises great care in keeping his stock up to the 
highest standard of qu.ality, while his prices compare favorably 



with those of any other house in the trade. The business is a very 
active and progressive one, and is of both a wholesale and retail 
character. Three assistants are employed in the service of patrons 
and all goods are delivered free of charge to any address in the 
city. Particular attention is given to family orders, and special 
rates are quoted for supplies to hotels, restaurants and boarding 
houses. Mr. Perkins is a native of Kennebunk, Me., but has long 
resided in the Hub. He is widely known and is respected alike by 
his competitors in the trade, and by his patrons for his integrity, 
enterprise and honorable dealings. 

HALL & COLE, Commission Merchants, and Wholesale Deal- 
ers in Cranberries, Fruit and Vegetables and Produce of 
All Kinds, Nos. 100 and 102 Faneuil Hall Market.— In con- 
sidering the relative value of commercial interests those 
which contribute most largely to the supply of the actual necessi- 
ties of mankind are entitled to be regarded as the most important; 
and we know of no branch or department which can justly claim 
sucii pre-eminence as that of the fruit and produce trade, for it 
deals e.xciusively witli the necessities of every day lite. A well- 
known, old established and highly respected house in this line is 
th»t of Messrs. Hall & Cole, Nos. 100 and 102 Faneuil Hall Market. 
The business of this llourisiiing concern was started originally by 
Messrs. Highland & Hall some forty years .ago. Subsequently 
the linn was changed to Hall & Haynes, and about a quarter of a 
century ago, it became, as now. Hall & Cole, the co-partners being 
Mr. Stacy Hall and Mr. H. U. Cole both of whom are natives of 
Maine. The lirm occupy two spacious stalls and basement and here 
they have at command the best of facilities for the successful car- 
rying on of their large and important trade. Tlie firm are general 
commission mercliants and jobbers and wholesale dealers in cran- 
berries, fruit and vegetables and produce of all kinds, and they 
are daily in receipt of consignments from the best producing dis- 
tricts in all sections of tlie country. By means of their large con- 
nection amongst dealers in the city and in all parts of the New 
England States the firm have unusual facilities for disposing 
speedily and to the best possible advantage, of all consignments, 
for which they make prompt and satisfactory returns. The long 
practical experience of the members of the firm, coupled.with their 
abundant energy and unimpeachable integrity, render tliem in 
every way worthy of the confidence of producers and shippers and 
of the trade generally. To both buyers and sellers, who form busi- 
ness relations with them, they offer many advantages not easily 
obtained elsewhere. 

WA HOLMES & CO., Wholesale and Retail Grocers, 
No. 91 Causeway, and Nos. 205 and 207 Portland Street. 
, —The old established house of \Vm. A. Holmes & Co. 
has long been justly celebrated for the superior char- 
acter and comprehensive variety of its stock of staple and fancy 
groceries. Mr. W. A. Holmes is a recognized authority in every 
branch of the trade, and brings to bear not only vast practical ex- 
perience but also perfected facilities and influential connections. 
He is a native of Maine and early in life became connected with 
the grocery trade, in 185G establishing his present house, and lay 
ing the foundation for his markedly prosperous and efficient 
career. His large store is 30x120 feet in dimensions and most cen- 
trally located directly opposite the Lowell and Eastern depots, on 
Causeway and Portland Streets. It is most handsomely fitted up, 
with all the modern improvements, including tlie cash system, 
etc. Here is one of the largest and the most carefully selected 
stocks of staple and fancy groceries in New England. To those 
seeking the best and purest of everything, we say, you will find it 
here, from the choicest growth of cotfees. fresh crop teas, pure 
sugars, spices, etc., up to full lines of canned goods, bearing the 
brands of the most responsible packers, delicacies of all kinds, 
and extra fine cigars, renowned for the excellence of the leaf 
tobacco used, and for the skilful workmanship. He employs an 
average force of eighteen hands in the various departments, and 
sells and delivers to customers all over Boston and vicinity, and 
along the lines of railroad leading out into New England. Mr. 
Holmes is posessed of superior executive abilities and has ever 
maintained the highest of standing for sterling integrity, and to 
whom great credit is due for having built up in the face of strong 
competition, the finest business of its kind in the city. 



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PALMER, PARKEK & CO., Mahogany and Veneers, Mills and 
Wliart, Medford Street, Charlestown District; Office and 
Salesrooms, Corner Portland and Travers Streets.— Boston 
is one of the most important centres in the United States 
for the trade in foreign and domestic cabinet woods, such as ma- 
hogany, rosewood, walnut, etc. The leading house engaged in the 
preparation of tliese woods for market, and the manufacture of 
veneers, is that of Messrs. Palmer, Parker & Co. The extensive 
business conducted here was established in 1833 by Mr. Harrison 
Parker, succeeded by the firm of Parker & Sleeper, and thus con- 
tinuing until 1871, when Mr. Sleeper retired, and the business was 
conducted under the firm name of H.Parker & Co. till 1875 when the 
present firm was formed, composed of Mr. I. S. Palmer and Mr. H. 
Palmer. Both gentlemen bring to bear the widest range of 
practical experience, while their house enjoys the most perfect fa- 
cilities of any in the trade. Their mahogany mills and veneer saw- 
ing establishment are centrally and conveniently located in Med- 
ford Street, Cliarlestown, having superior wharfage, where vessels 
arriving with cargoes of mahogany can discharge direct into the 
yards of the firm. The mills are three stories in height, and fully 
equipped with the latest improved machinery and appliances. Here 
the firm carry a heavy stock and are prepared to promptly fill the 
largest wholesale orders. A large force of hands are here em- 
ployed in the manufacture of cabinet woods into every variety ol 
size and tliickness. Among the woods sawed into veneers and 
cabinet sizes here are mahogany, rose wood, Frencli walnut, plain 
and figured ash and oak, black walnut, plain and figured maple, 
white liolly, etc. Special attention is given to dimension orders, 
and the firm fill important contracts for leading furniture manu- 
facturers, cabinet-makers and lumber dealers, not only over New 
England, but throughout every section of the United States and 
■Canada, with a heavy and growing export trade in holly, maple and 
other native woods specially adapted to the leading circles of the 
piano case and cabinet-makers trade ; likewise, for furniture 
manufacturers and house finish. Mr. Palmer is a native of New 
Hampshire, and Mr. Parker, of New York city. Both gentle- 
men are universally popular in trade circles. 

EI. MORRISON & CO., Commission Merchants and Dealers 
in Fruits and Produce of All Kinds, Basement No. 16, South 
J Side Fanenil Hall Market.— An honorable and successful 
career of upwards of forty years has given the well-known 
commission house of Messrs. E. I. Morrison & Co. a high standing 
in tlie great tlioroughfares of commerce and trade in New Eng- 
land's metropolis. The business of this concern was founded in 
1818, and throughout the whole of the long career of this success- 
ful concern, the business has been conducted on business princi- 
ples wliich have earned for it tlie position it now holds. The 
premises occupied, comprise the basement store. No. 16, on the 
south side of Faneuil Hall Market, and here every convenience and 
facility are at hand tor the storage and effective handling of the 
heavy stock of fruits aud produce of every description necessarily 
carried to meet the immediate wants of tlie firm's numerous pa- 
trons, scattered over all parts of tlie New England States. 
Me.ssrs. E. I. Morrison & Co. command all the advantages naturally 
accumulated through long years of identification with an in- 
dustry. They are gentlemen of wide experience, and thoroughly 
posted in all the wants and re(iuirements of the commission inter- 
est. Consignments are received daily from all the best producing 
sections of the country and from tlie most noted foreign fruit-grow- 
ing countries. The firm have the most advantageous arrangements 
Willi growers for securing supplies, and are enabled to offer to the 
trade terms of an exceptionably favorable character. The trans- 
actions of the flrin are exclusively ofa wholesale character, and the 
business is of such extent as to require the constant services of ten 
assistants in filling orders. The pi'oprietors are prominent, public 
spirited and progressive business men, who have done much to 
sustain and enliance the commercial name of the city. The senior 
member of the firm is a native of New Hampshire. 

H01!.VCE W. TAYLOR, Mortgages Negotiated and Real Estate 
Purchased, Sold and Leased, No. 87 Equitable Building.— 
The city of Boston has no financial interests of greater im- 
portance than that of real estate, and the course of finan- 
cial investments in other lines of securities during the last few 



years, has directed the attention of capitalists to the purchase of 
well located city real estate. In order to attain tlie greatest 
measure of security and the best prospective results, the services 
of an experienced broker are always necessary, and prominent 
among those engaged in this business in this city, is Mr. Horace 
W. Taylor, whose office is centrally located at Nos. 87 and 88 Equit- 
able Building. Mr. Taylor is a native of New York and at iiiesent 
resides in Newton, near this city. Having had a number of years ex- 
perience in all branches of the real estate business, he founded this 
house on his own account originally in 1884, and from the start has 
been the recipient of a very flatteringand remunerative patronage, 
which is constantly increasing to proportions of great magnitude, 
and at present includes among his permanent customers many of 
our leading capitalists and investors. He occupies a very neatly 
equipped office which is furnished with every convenience for tlie 
speedy transaction of business and reliable information for inves- 
tors. Mr. Taylor is a recognizedauthority in regard to value of resi- 
dential and business property throughout the city, and has brouglit 
to a successful issue many important transactions, and intending 
investors, who rely upon his sound judgment and judicious advice 
in purcliasing property will secure not only a steady income, but 
likewise, a prospective increase of value. He also makes a spe- 
cialty of negotiating loans on bonds aud mortgages, and is very pop- 
ular with those property owners in need of financial assistance, as 
his methods areof the most honorable character. 

TC. SAVORY, Banner Painter, No. 13 Tremont Row.— Tlie 
oldest and leading liouse in Boston engaged in designing. 
J painting and manufacturing military and society banners 
to order, is that conducted by Mr. T. C. Savory, at No. 13 
Tremont Row. This gentleman established himself in business 
here in 1844, having been twenly-seven years in his present stand 
and has long enjoyed a liberal, influential and permanent patron- 
.age from all sections of the United States. He makes a promi- 
nent specialty of silk flags, excelling all his contemporaries in care- 
ful attention to details as well as in the superior quality of materials 
used. His house is the favorite headquarters tor the finest work in 
this line, and his services are in constant requisition by leading 
societies in this and other cities throughout the Union. Among 
tlie special orders filled by him may be mentioned the banner pre- 
sented by the city of Boston to the city New Orleans in 1884 ; also, 
a banner for tlie Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Mass. ; aud 
is now making a fine Masonic banner for the Consistory of Boston. 
His productions in this line are rarely equalled and never excelled 
in this country for beauty of design, artistic workmanship and 
elegance of finish, and have served to give him a prestige and a 
popularity of which he has every reason to be proud. A visit to his 
workrooms and an inspection of his methods will satisfy the 
most critical tliat his work well merits the praises bestowed upon 
it. His son, Mr. Walter Savory, is an expert in water colors, and 
his services are in demand in making scenes for decorative pur- 
poses which are highly regarded by connoisseurs for their artistic 
merit. Mr. Savory is a native of this city, a reliable and ac- 
complished master of his art, fair and conscientious in all his deal- 
ings and eminently popular with hishost of friends and patrons in 
this city and throughout the country. 

SHEDD & CRANE, Leather, Nos. 98 aud 100 South Street.— The 
firm of Shedd & Crane, Nos. 98 and 100 South Street, has, in 
a comparatively brief period, taken a leading rank in the 
leather trade, and now ranks with the largest concerns in 
the line. The firm is composed of Wm. E. Shedd and Charles R. 
Crane, who have long been identified with the business in tlieir 
capacity as salesmen. In February 1888 they established their 
present flourishing house, occupying a flne, commodious, three- 
story building, in dimensions 30.\72 feet. Here they carry an im- 
mense stock of leather of every description, which they handle on 
commission, having the best facilities for placing large lots owing 
to their intimate acquaintance with the leading buyers throughout 
tlie country. Their principal trade is in upper leather, and in this 
branch they can compete witli any other house both in regard to 
price an<l quality. Both gentlemen are natives of Massachusetts, 
and in the prime of life. They are highly esteemed inbusinesscir- 
cles for their energy and the first-class reputation tliey have al- 
ways borne. 



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WILLARD H. DUNBAR & CO., JMercliant Tailors, Nos.lW 
ami 167 Court Street.— The firm of Messrs. Willard H. 
Dunbar & Co., at Nos. 165 and 167 Court Street, are recog- 
nized as leading exponents of tlie tailor's art in Boston, 
and stand in tlie front rank of popularity and success. This busi- 
ness was originally establislied in 1882, by Messrs. Morgan, Clarke 
& Co., who were succeeded by Dunbar, Clarke & Co., and in Feb- 
ruary, 1888, tlie present firm was organized as Willard II. 
Dunbar & Co., Mr. Dunbar beingsole proprietor. This gentleman 
is a practical and experienced master of his art, and is rapidly 
pushing his way to public favor and prosperity by the general ex- 
cellence and thorough reliability of his work, and the uniform 
satisfaction rendered to patrons. He occupies a fine double store, 
handsomely arranged witli lieavy plate-glass show windows, marble 
top tables and attractive fixtures, and containing one of the finest as- 
sortments of cloths and trimmings ever brought to this city. It is 
complete iu material, design and novelty.and the very best sources 
of American and Euroi)ean production liave contributed to its 
wealth. The firm devote tlieir entire attention to fine custom 
work, and tlie garments liere turned out are perfect in every feat- 
ure— in cut, fit, style and finish. A very large and flourishingtrade 
is enjoyed, requiring in its transaction the constant services of a 
large force of skilled assistants, while among the permanent pa- 
trons of the house are very many of the best-dressed citizens of 
Boston and its suburban towns, the business during certain years 
aggregating as high as $60,000. Mr. Dunbar is a resident of Chel- 
sea, and is a gentleman of the highest repute and standing in so- 
ciety, liberal and conscientious in all his dealings and eminently 
popular with his host of friends and patrons. 

KIJIBALLS FINE CONFECTIONERY. R. H. Kimb.all, Pro- 
prietor, No. 78 Tremont Street.— The fine confectionery of 
Mr. K. H. Kimball, at No. 78 Tremont Street, has since its 
establislimeut become a favorite resort for consumers 
of fine conlcctiunery. Mr. Kimball was born in Maine, but has 
been a resident of this city since 1870. He first embarked iu the 
inoduce business on BI,ackstone Street, and was quite successful iu 
tliat line of trade, but having a jneference for his present occupa- 
tion he embarked in it in 1886, .and although not solong established 
as some others in the same line of trade he has been the recipient 
of a patronage, which is not often accorded to older houses. His 
store is centrally located and is of ample dimensions, handsomely 
and neatly appointed with elegant fixtures consisting of large and 
attractive display wiiulows, elaborate counters, show cases, etc.. In 
fact everthiug pertaining to tlie outfit of a first-class confectionery 
bouse. Here will always be found an almost inexhaustive supply 
of everything in the confectionery line, all of which are the fresh- 
est, purest and best that can be obtained in the market, and com- 
prise bon-bons, gl.aces, candied fruits and nuts, caramels, choco- 
lates in all styles, dragee candies, lozenges, Boston chips, mottoes, 
gum drops, jellies, etc. It is well-known to every intelligent per- 
son that purity is the nuain essential with all kinds of confectionery. 
This necessary quality is the great feature with all goods sold at 
this establishment, and as it is very difticult in these days to obtain 
candies and confectionery devoid of adulteration and deleterious 
substances, the advantage of dealing with a house whose reputa- 
tion is so high for selling none but the purest and best goods is at 
once manifest. 



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■RS. S. A. MacDONNELL, Importer and Retailer of Kid, 
Suede and Fabric Gloves. No. 86 Tremont Street, Under 
Tremont Temple.— Mrs. S. A. MacDonnell, importer and ■ 
retailer of kid, Suede and fabric gloves, is a native of New 
York State where she was engaged in the mercantile business for 
several years, but came to Boston and established this enterprise 
in March, 1S88, and by handling only first-class goods, carefully at- 
tending to the wants other customers, and liberal dealing has made 
her establishment the centre of a first-class trade, which has few 
if any successful rivals in this section of the city. The store l.s of 
ample size having a frontage of twelve feet and a depth of over 
three times that distance, and is very elegantly fitted up, having a 
fine display window, show-cases and handsome counters, together 
with other conveniences for theexhibitionof her fine stock of goods 
and the comfort of patrons. The assortment to be found here con- 
stantly is full and complete and embraces a full line of kid. Suede 



and fabric gloves, which have been imported direct and comprise 
the very best and highest gr.ades produced by the most eminent 
and reliable manufacturers iu Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London. 
These goods are in all colors and sizes, shapes and styles, and an 
examination of them cannot fail to supply the wants of the most 
fastidious, as they are offered at prices that absolutely defy suc- 
cessful competition. In addition to the excellent line of gloves car- 
ried by Mrs. MacDonnell, she has the agency for the celebrated 
Royal Stainless Fast Black Hosiery for ladies, gents and children. 
These goods are guaranteed absolutely fast black, prices from 37J^ 
cents up. Ladies understand that it is a very difficult thing to 
get a black stocking tliat will not crock, but in buying this par- 
ticular make, they will find them just .as represented. All goods 
are purchased direct from manufacturers in large quantities for 
cash, which eiuaWes her to offer superior inducements to patrons. 

DW. STARKATT & CO., Tailors. No. 11 Hamilton Place.— The 
history of prominent representatives of the tailor's art in 
^ this city must make conspicuous mention of the firm of 
Messrs. D. W. Starratt & Co., whose establishment is very 
eligibly located at No. 11 Hamilton Phace. This house has long 
been recognized as a tower of strength iu the merchant tailoring 
trade, and a popular source of supply for well-made and perfectly 
fitting garments. The business was originally established in 1876, 
by Messrs. Butman & Starratt, who were succeeded by Starratt & 
Orcutt, and in February, 1887, the present firm was organized by 
Messrs. D. W. Starratt and J. B. Mason. They occupy spacious 
and elegantly appointed quarters for manufacturing and sales 
purposes, and are in a position to guarantee the iiroinpt and per- 
fect fulfilment of all orders and commissions. Here is exhibited 
one of the finest stocks of cloths and trimmings to be found in the 
city. It is complete in material, design and novelty, and the very 
best sources of American and European production have con- 
tributed to its wealth. The jiroprietors devote their entire time 
and talents to fine custom work, and the garments made by them 
to measure are recognized as simply perfection in style, fit and 
artistic workmansliip. To seek their services once is to be their 
patron always. Among their permanent customers are very 
many of Boston's best-dressed citizens, gentlemen old and young, 
who understand the merits of a thoroughly first-class tailor, and 
who find in Messrs. Starratt & Co.'s establishment not only a line 
of goods that is at all times superior, but a place where the gen- 
eral make-up. fit and trimming of a gaiment is a matter of careful 
consideration and study. The co-partners are both well-known 
Bostonians, accomplished masters of their art, fair, liberal and 
conscientious in all their dealings, and young men of high social 
standing, wide popularity and thorough reliability, wlio have won 
success by honestly deserving it. 

TIGHE & BURKE, Grocers, No. 3 Charles Street.— The house 
so long and so successfully conducted by Messrs. Tighe & 
Burke, was founded in 1869 by Messrs. John Tighe and 
William Burke, and on the death of Mr. Burke in January 
1.S82, Mr. Tighe succeeded to the sole control, continuing the busi- 
ness under the original firm name. There is nothing iu cither 
hemisphere that comes under the definition of a food product or 
grocer's sundries that is not to be found here in its most attractive 
form, and pure, fresh and reliable as to quality. As regards do- 
mestic staple groceries and food products the stock is thoroughly 
comprehensive, covering the entire wide range and including 
everything in its best quality as demanded by the refined tastes of 
the people of this city, while a leading specialty is made of fancy 
groceries, such as canned and preserved meats, fruits and vegeta- 
bles; peas, mushrooms and capers; preserves, pickles and sauces; 
table delicacies, condiments and luxuries of both domestic and 
foreign production, and including only those brands that experi- 
ence and test have shown to be perfect and wholesome. Such 
staples as teas, coffees and spices, flour, sugar and butter, so diffl- 
cult to be obtained of the desired standard, are received direct 
from the most reputable producing sources, and recommend their 
own superior merits to the confidence and patronage of critical 
and discriminating buyers. Not alone the rich but also the poor 
patronize this store, for they are sure of finding here the best and 
freshest goods at lowest current prices. Mr. Tighe is a foreigner 
by birth, but a resident here for the past thirty years. 



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JOHN EARLE & CO., Civil and Military Tailors, No. 330 Wash- 
ington Street.— Tlie most famous Ann of tailors in ttie United 
States is tliat of Messrs. Jolin Earle & Co., of No. 330 Waslr 
ington Street. Tliey are tlie oldest establislied, the business 
having been founded by Mr. John Earle, away back in 1829. He 
early developed an enviable reputation tor the superior character 
of his work, and the business rapidly came to the front, the leader 
in its line. The existing copartnership was formed in 1887, the old 
and honored name and style being retained. The partners are Mr. 
Walter Earle, born in Boston and son of the founder of the house. 
He was in the old flrm for twenty-eight years, and connected with 
tlie business for a total of thirty years. He is the leading authority 
on gentlemen's fashionable attire both civil and military, and gives 
close attention to the guidance of the heavy business transacted. 
Mr. Benjamin Parker is a native of New Hampshire, who has been 
a resident of Boston thirty-tive years past. He also has been with 
the house for a period of thirty years, and in copartnership since 
1887, and no one better than he is qualified to extend advice to cus- 
tomers and to take charge of the work of production of the elegant 
garments for which the concern is so famed. Mr. Frederick E. 
Poole was born in Worcester, and has resided in Boston for thirty- 
five years past. He has been with tlie house since 1858, and in the 
firm since 1887. He is a skilled and accomplished master tailor, 
and the firm is tlius the strongest possible both as to skill, ex- 
perience, facilities, resources and connections. Tliey import direct, 
full lines of the choicest fabrics including all the newest shades, 
textures and patterns, and the most fastidious can be suited from 
their magnificent display. Fashionable tailoring is done here on 
correct principles, all the niceties of gentlemen's attire are given 
strict attention to, while the styles are absolutely correct, and the 
work of the cutter, fitter etc., of the most perfect, skilled charac- 
ter. Each figure is made a study and treated as to its needs, and 
garments made here are faultless. The firm employ upwards of 
100 of the most skilful journeymen obtainable, and are driven with 
orders from the best circles of civil and military society. Military 
uniforms have ever been a specialty, and the firm have supplied 
same to officers of many of tlie crack regiments both volunteer and 
regular in every section of the United States. The importance of 
accuracy in making uniforms cannot be over estimated, and the 
wide experience of the firm in this line, measuring all ranks from 
general to non-commissioned officer, it is manifest that nowhere 
can such absolute satisfaction be attained as here. Though the 
firm has so long maintained tiie lead for quality, elegance and 
style, yet its prices are remarkably moderate and the fashionable 
world gets what it wants here at prices to suit the times. To those 
who appreciate the importance of perfect fitting garments from 
new goods, we strongly recommend to patronize this old and hon- 
orable house which built up its tr.ade and reputation strictly on the 
basis of enterprise, equity, skill and integrity. 

NEW ENGLAND GRIP COMPANY, No 114 State Street.— Bos- 
ton has long held a pre-eminent reputation as a manufac- 
turing centre, and there are certain enterprises which de- 
serve special mention in this review. Among these may be 
named tliat conducted by the New England Grip Company. This 
company are the manufacturers of the celebrated Hand Power 
Test Machine, and has acquired by purchase of patent rights the 
exclusive right to operate in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, 
New Hampshire and Vermont. It was incorporated in December, 
1887, with a capital stock of $150,000, and is officered as follows, viz : 
president, Robert J. Edwards, treasurer, Henry E. Russell ; direc- 
tors, R. J. Edwards, W. E. Cox, H. E. Russell, Schuyler Walden, 
Augustus Nickerson. H. E. Swasey and E. Bridge. The use of 
this machine is to test the grip of the hand, and it is placed in all 
places of public resort and interest. The principle upon which it 
is worked is this: Upon a person di'opping a nickel five-cent piece 
into a slit in the top of the machine, it is set ready for use, and by 
gripping the handles the number of pounds gripped will be regis- 
tered upon the dial of the machine. The earnings of the company 
will depend upon the number of times the machine is used in the 
course of a year. Machines of this kind already set up have proved 
to be extremely profitable. They have several advantages over 
the weighing machines; Their original cost is less; they are not 
apt to get out of repair ; accuracy is not essential to their success- 
ful operation ; and they appeal to two traits of human nature found 



in every American— personal vanity and competitive spirit — both 
of which are apt to induce the person who grips once to repeat the 
test, especially if a friend has beaten his record. Experience has 
shown that two or three persons will drop a half-dozen nickels into 
a machine in a very few minutes, something that would never oc- 
cur with a weighing machine. The company propose to put these 
machines up in tlie most advantageous places, and on the most fa- 
vorable terms possible. They will be placed, when proper arrange- 
ments can be made, in such places as college and other gymnasi- 
umns, fairs, hotels, summer resorts, dejiots, excursion steamers, 
and in all otlier places where people are accustomed to congregate. 
Parties desiring to have these machines placed in their establish- 
ments, or to acquire the sole right to certain cities, towns or coun- 
ties, should apply to the office of the company in this city, or they 
will be visited by an agent on sending notice to the company. 

WATERS & LITCHFIELD, Dealers in Beef, Pork, Lard, 
Hams, Tripe, Pigs' Feet, Etc., Nos. 41 and 43 Faneuil 
Hall Market.— Among the substantial and reliable meat 
and provision dealers in Faneuil Hall Market are 
Messrs. Waters & Litchfield, whose long, practical experience 
amply qualifies them to carry on their enterprise in the most ap- 
proved manner and to supply the needs of the public with the 
choicest goods to be had in all seasons. The business now con- 
trolled by this progressive firm was inaugurated on August 26, 
1826, by Mr. J. G. Sanderson, at stall No. 58. In 1859 he removed to 
stalls Nos. 41 and 43, and here the business has ever since been suc- 
cessfully conducted. In 1874 a partnership was formed under the 
style of Sanderson, Morse & Waters. Mr. Sanderson died about a 
month after, and a copartnership was formed under the firm name 
of Sanderson, Morse & Waters, the former being the son of the 
late Mr. Sanderson. Two years later Mr. Sanderson also died, and 
in 1879 the present firm was formed. Mr. Waters has had a large 
experience in this line, dating back to 1863, when he first entered 
the house as a clerk and was admitted to partnersliip eleven years 
later. Mr. Litchfield has been a member of the flrm since 1879, the 
copartners being Messrs. J. A. Waters and A. S. Litchfield. Tlie 
latter was born in Maine and the former is a native of Massachu- 
setts. They are rated among the most popular, successful and 
substantial business men in the market, and they have under con- 
trol a wholesale and retail trade of considerable magnitude, and 
one which extends throughout the city and New England. Their 
two stalls are commodious, neatly and appropriately fitted up, and 
provided with all necessary appliances tor the successful prosecu- 
tion of the business. The firm select the articles of food dealt in 
with great care, and they carry at all times a large stock of the 
choicest meats, including beef, pork, lard, hams, tripe, pigs' feet, 
etc., all of which are warranted to be first-class in every particu- 
lar, and may be purchased at the lowest market prices. The trade 
is of both a wholesale and retail character, and is yearly increas- 
ing in volume. Three assistants are employed, and all orders are 
promptly and satisfactorily filled. 

TC. PAZOLT & SON, Furs, No. 92 Chauncy Street.— An old 
established house well known in tliis community is that 
of T. C. Pazolt & Son, importers, manufacturers and deal- 
ers in furs. It was established as long ago as 1840, by Mr. 
Pazolt, and has always occupied a conspicuous position in the 
trade and received a liberal patronage and is very popular. In 
1880 his son Lewis Pazolt was given an interest in the business, 
and since that time it has been continued under the present firm 
name. The premises occupy a three-story building 25x60 feet in 
area affords ample space for manufacturing purposes and display- 
ing the stock, the salesroom being particularly neatly fitted up in 
wliich is exhibited an elegant assortment of ricli, elegant cloaks, 
dolmans, paletots and seal sacks and ladies furs of every descrip- 
tion, also everything suitable for men's wear, gloves, etc. These 
goods are in every respect first-class and very desirable, and have 
been carefully made and trimmed, and are in perfect accord with 
the prevailing fashions. Mr. Pazolt is an authority upon the dif- 
ferent kinds of furs and was brought up to the business in Austria, 
his native country. He came to the United St ites many years 
ago, and during his long residence in Boston, has become widely 
known as one of the best practical experts in the fur trade in the 
city. His son and copartner was born in Boston. 



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NSCHLOSS, Wholesale Dealer in Cigai-sand Tobacco, Pipes, 
Etc., No. 167 Haiiovei- Street, Corner North Centre Street. 
—A leading representative house devoted to the whole- 
sale trade in cigars and tobacco, pipes and smokers' 
articles generally, is that ot which Mr. N. Sehloss is the enterpris- 
ing and popular proprietor. He established 
in business ten years ago, bringing to bear 
the widest range ot practical experience 
perfected facilities and influential connec- 
t;ons He malies a specialty of the direct 
importation of pipes and smokers' articles 
generally and carries the Largest stock in Bos- 
ton and New England. He has manifested 
marked enterprise in this line, and in his 
spacious establisliinent can always be found 
full lines ot pipes, from the ordinary T. D. 
clay to the finest, most elaborate and artis- 
llc meerschaum pipes. In fine meerschaums 
he has no rival, and the trade in search of 
lioice, salable goods will consult their best 
iiterests by making their selections here. 
Mr, Sehloss shows many novelties in smok- 
ing sets, and also carries a full stock ot the 
ilioicest hand made Havana, key west and 
domestic cigars, and chewing and smoking 
tobaccos, snulT, etc. He quotes the lowest 
prices for the best goods and has ever pursued an equitable policy 
toward Ihe trade. His business has had a rapid growth and six 
years ago he was obliged to move to his present spacious store. He 
has three salemen on the road, a staff of clerks in the store, and is 
doing one of the largest and best trades of the kind. He has ever 
retained the confidence of leading commercial circles, and his 
familiar trade-mark, A pipe, .stamped If. S.. Is a sure guarantee of 
the highest standard of excellence. 

GEO. A. CLARK, Broker in Chemicals ; Room No. 4, No. 79 
Milk Street.— The immense quantities of bleaching powders, 
soda ash, caustic soda and kindred rough chemicals used in 
the United States impart to the trade in these useful and 
Indispensable products an importance that places it among the 
principal dep.artments of commercial activity in our great sea- 
board cities. The transactions in the articles referred to here in 
Boston annually through the medium ot the broker and commis- 
sion merchant reach enormous proportions, while the volume ot 
business grows apace with years. Among those engaged in this 
line in this city there Is perhaps no one known or who receives a 
larger measure ot recognition than Geo. A. Clark, broker in heavy 
chemicals, whose office is located at No. 7'J Milk Street, (Koom 
4,) and who for some twenty-four years, during which he has 
been established in business h.as maintained an excellent stand- 
ing In the tr.ade. He makes a leading specialty ot handling 
English chemicals, such as bleaching powder, soda ash, etc., sell- 
ing the same on commission for Boston importers, and is prepared 
to execute all orders for anything in this line in the most expe- 
ditious and reliable manner, while his business connection, which 
is of a most substantial character, extends throughout the whole 
of the New England States and the principal portion of the west. 
Mr. Clark, who is a gentleman in the prime of life, and a native ot 
Boston, is a man ot entire responsibility in all his dealings, as well 
as ot energy and ample experience, and is thoroughly conversant 
with the wants ot the trade, 

KIMBALL BROTHERS, Beef, Pork, Lard, Hams, Tripe, S.au- 
sages. Pigs' Feet, Etc.. Nos. ,'J4 and 56 Faneuil Hall Mar- 
ket.— Stalls Nos. 54 and 56 are among the most largely pat- 
ronized ot those in the far-famed Faneuil Hall Market, the 
opening ot which carries the mind back to generations that have 
passed. Since 1857 the business at the stalls named has been con- 
ducted under the style ot Kimball Brothers. The founders were 
Messrs. J. \V. & W. H. Kimball, whose partnership was terminated 
by the death of the latter in 1885. The surviving partner h.as con- 
tinued the business under the old firm name, and he has fully sus- 
tained the high reputation the firm gained in years gone by forlib- 
eral and straightforward dealing, and tor handling superior grades 
ot meats at reasonable prices. The two stalls occupied tor the busi 



noss are commodious, and these are neatly and orderly kept, while 
they are provided witli refrigerators and other necessary acces- 
sories tor keeping the stock fresh and sweet. The stock on hand 
is at all times an essentially large one to meet the requirements 
ot the numerous patrons ot the establishment. It is renewed daily 
from the most reliable sources of supply, and consists of the choic- 
est cuts ot beef and pork, also lard, hams, tripe, sausages, pigs' 
feet, etc. Besides having a large family trade, the firm cater to an 
extensive and growing wholesale trade. The distributing trade 
of the firm extends throughout the city and beyond it, and two 
competent and experienced assistants and a delivery wagon are 
kept in constant service. Mr. Kimball was born in Vermont, and 
is an old resident of Boston, where he is widely known and es- 
teemed for his business energy and rectitude. 

SANDERSON & SON, General Agents; Wilson Line of Steam- 
ers, Between London, Hull, Newcastle, Boston and New 
York; No. 4 Liberty Square; New York Office: Nos. 21 and 
22 State Street.— Boston has of recent years secured valued 
accessions to her facilities for handling the enormous growth of 
her foreign trade, one of the most important being the placing of a 
line of powerful and roomy steamships on the route between this 
city and London, Hull, and all other ports of importance by the 
famous Arm of Messrs. Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., of Hull- Eng. 
Their agents in America are Messrs. Sanderson & Son, quite as 
widely and favorably known tor their success in securing the car- 
goes and passengers tor the steamships consigned to their houses. 
Mr. R Sanderson, the head ot tills old and influential house Is 
resident in Liverpool, Mr. L. B S;inderson is resident in Boston, 
Mr. Harold Sanderson is the resident New York agent, while Mr, 
Osvvald Sanderson is at the head of the firm's branch house In St. 
Petersburg, Russia. The Wilson Line is steadily enlarging its vol- 
ume ot traffic between Boston and New York and Europe. This line 
IS the largest one privately owned in the world. It comprises up- 
wards ot eighty of the best style of modern ocean steamships, and 
of varying sizes, with regard to special routes and lines of trade. 
The house flag and tunnels ot this line are seen every week in 
nearly 100 great ports of the world, as they pursue their commer- 
cial voyages, and millions of tons ot Ireight are thus transported 
to their destination. The service is a weekly one to New York from 
Hull and London, and a fortnightly one to Boston from Hull. The 
saloon pass.ige to London or Hull is only $45. return, $80. Interme- 
diate. $.30. Steerage to Loudon, only 818 Those intending to visit 
Europe should note these low rates and visit Messrs Sanderson 
& Son's office. No 4 Liberty Square, where full information can be 
obtained. The firm oiler equally fine facilities to merchants quot- 
ing lowest rates to London Hull or Newcastle Issuing through 
bills of landing to all ports on the Mediterranean, Baltic and 
Black Seas, India, China and Japan, thus enabling Boston ship 
pers toatany time ship via steam to every port of Importance in 
Europe or the east. 

MILLS & GIBB, Importers of Lace Curtains, Embroideries, 
White Goods, Etc., Koom 46 Phillips Building, Hamilton 
Place; Wm. Byers, Agent.— This is an old established 
New York concern, and In its line ot trade is one ot the 
most extensive and most widely known in the country. The Bos- 
ton branch ot the house was founded in 1S68 for the more efficient 
service ot the wants of customers in the New England States. The 
firm are importers of lace curtains, embroideries, trimmings, novel 
ties and white goods of all kinds.and these goods are shipped direct 
from the European factories, and in quantities so great that terms 
and prices are secured Impossible to be obtained by small dealers. 
By this means the firm are in a position to confer advantages and 
benefits that tew ot their compeers can accord. In their Boston 
office the firm carry a fine sample stock that is being constantly 
renewed and maintained as representative of all the newest de- 
signs in lace curtains, embroideries, white goods, etc., and orders 
are filled direct from the New York house. Since 1887, Mr. William 
Byers has been the firm's representative in Boston. He is a native 
ot New York, was raised in the firm's business house there, and 
was for a long time traveling salesman. He Is a wide-awake, 
energetic and courteous business man, and in him the dealers In 
Nev/ England have a straightforward, honorable representative ot 
a house, whose record is of the highest, to deal with. 



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HERBERT SEAVERNS, Heprespnting Russian Ilalr Felt Com- 
pany ; S. Stioock & Co. Kelts and Velours. No. 115 Summer 
Street.— The different industries engaged In tlie manufac- 
ture of wearing apparel, whose princip.al headquarters are in Bos- 
ton, have opened up a very extensive field in the way of maldng 
and furnishing necessary aricles used in those various 
manufactures. Among these kindred industries to the boot 
and shoe, .al.so cap making, is the well-known house of 
Mr. Herheit Seaverns, at No 115 Summer Street, who rep- 
resents tlie Russian Hair Felt Company and the felt and velours 
house of Messrs. S. Stroock & Co , of No 62 Walker Street, New 
York City. Mr. Seaverns is a native of Boston, .and has h.ad avery 
large experience as a salesman and handler of these goods, and es- 
tablished himself in the business on his own account in 1887. He 
occupies a very neatly fitted-iip ollice. together wilh sample room, 
in which will be found a full and complete assortment of samples 
and stock of all goods in his line of trade required in the boot and 
shoe, also cap nianuf.acturlng business. Allhougli not solong in 
the business as many other houses in the same line, Mr. Seaverns 
has built up a very large and substantial patronage, such as is not 
often accorded to many older in the tr.ade. He receives his goods 
direct from the manufacturers and importers, which enables him 
to offer special inducements to purchasers, while the lines which 
he handles are well-known as to excellence of quality and relia- 
bility by the entire trade. His trade extends not only throughout 
tlie city and vicinity, but to the entire New England States. The 
h.'iir felt manufactured by the Russian Hair Felt Company has long 
held a very prominent place among the requirements of nianuf.ac- 
turers. and its reputation is consequently increasing, as is also the 
goods coming from the house of S. Stroock &Co., and especially so 
is It with their line of velours of all grades. By their selection of 
Mr. H. Seaverns as their representative in this city they have 
placed their goods ni closer relations with purchasers in Boston 
and surrounding country. Mr. Seaverns is a wide awake, ener- 
getic and reliable business man, who fully understands the needs 
of the trade, and the success he has already attained is justly 
merited by his honorable and fair business methods. 

ROBERT T. ALMY & CO.. Clothiers, No. 622 W.ashington 
Street.— One of the must popular among the leading cloth- 
ing houses in this city, is that of theflrni of Robert T. Almy 
& Co., which is located at No. 622 Washington Street. In 
endeavoring to draw a brief sketcli by which at least a partial im- 
pression may be obtained of the character and magnitude of the 
business carried on we must necessarily be compelled to omit many 
Interesting features and confine ourselves to the fewsalientpoints 
most readily suggested. It w,as originated by L. P. Bennett & Co., 
In 1860, who were succeeded by the Eagle Clothing Company, and 
in 1880 by Edward C. Almy & Co., who continued its direction until 
1888, when Robert T. Almy & Co, succeeded to it and have since 
conducted the business vigorously upon the same liberal, honora- 
ble methods that have always characterized the operations of tlie 
house. The location is a very desirable one, the premises embrac- 
ing two floors of the ample area of 50x90 feet, with handsome plate 
glass front. The interior arrangements are neat elegant and at- 
tractive, and in every respect adapted to the necessities of the 
business, and are highly ornamental In gener.al appear- 
ance. The store is carpeted throughout, and no exertions 
have been spared to render the stock of goods it contains 
unapproachable either in extent or elegance from the medium 
to the finest fabrics. It is replete with everything fash- 
ionable and seasonable in every size and style for men, boys and 
children, cut by skilled designers and made and trimmed in the 
very best manner by practical tailors, the whole assortment being 
of uniform excellence, and highly creditable to the judgment, 
good taste and sagacity of Mr. Robert T. Almy. the head of the 
firm, who superintends and manages the entire establishment, in 
which he is assisted by fifteen clerks and salesmen. The house en- 
joys a large and steadily growing trade, and is certainly a very de- 
sirable one to deal with, as customers will find the prices such as 
to defy successful competition. Mr. Almy is a gentleman of thor- 
ough enterprise and large experience, and can always offer the 
best goods and guarantee perfect-fitting clothing and full satisfac- 
tion and meet the requirements of a critical and exacting public 
in every Instance. 



REED & BROTHER, Fire Insurance: Omce, No. 50 Kilby 
Street.— One of the leading representative firins of fire in- 
surance agents and brokers in New England is that of 
Messrs. Reed & Brother, of No. 50 Kilby Street. The busi- 
ness is one of llie oldest in its line, and has been continuously in 
the hands of Mr George M. Keed and his associates ever since he 
first opened his office in 1848. The hrm of Reed ii Hastings was 
subsequently formed, succeeded by Reed & Brother in 18,58, Mr. 
.1. H. Keed coming into copartnership. Tlie lamented aecea.se of 
tlie latter occured in 1880, since which date the honored and 
widely-known name has remained unchanged, while the present 
linn was formed in 1882 as follows: Mr. George W.Reed. Mr.Ueo.C- 
Bosson, Mr. Eugene M. Smith, and Mr. W. Herbert Boynton. Mr. 
Reed was born in Dan vers, and from early youth has been a resident 
of Boston. He is a recognized authority on the fire risks of this city 
and vicinity and on the manufacturing risks of New Eiigl:ind, 
and has long commanded the friendship and p.atron.age of leading 
firms and corporations. Mr. Bosson, who came into the lirm iu 
1882, is a widely-experienced underwriter and an able and popular 
business man. Mr. Smith is a Bostonian of long experience in fire 
insurance, having been with the house twenty years, and in part- 
nership six. He is universally popular and respected, and so also 
Mr. Boynton, who is a native of Boston, with the house eighteen 
years and a partner for six. As thus constituted, the firm has the 
facilities, knowledge and experience essential to conducting the 
most extensive business upon the most approved basis They have 
won, and retain, the confidence of the public by pursuing a strictly 
honorable, liberal policy, and representas agents tlie followingold 
and powerful corporations Springfield Fire and Marine Insur- 
ance Company, with a cash capital of $1,250,000; Meriden Fire In- 
surance Company, of Connecticut, with a cash capital of $200,000; 
Security Insurance Company df New Haven, withac.ash capital 
of 8250,000. and the Liberty Insurance Company, of New York, with 
a cash capital of $800,000. Tliey all have large surplus and resei-ve 
funds, and are among the most popular in the field. Their poli- 
cies are clear and liberally worded, their rates the lowest consist- 
ent with security, while all losses are promptly paid when ad- 
justed. The firm control the insuring of desirable lines of busi- 
ness and residential property, and also of large mills .and factories 
throughout Massachusetts, and tliose seeking full security, low 
rates, and fair, honor.able treatment, can have same by insuring 
here. The firm is universally popular and respected, .and is as to 
character a leading factor and exponent in New England. 

T WHITE'S SONS, Truckmen and Forwarders. No 44 Kilby 
Street.- For expeditious and reliable handling and trans- 
^ ferring of heavy freights, or for promptness and despatch 
in the forwardingof general merchandise, nofirm engaged 
in the business in this city enjoys a better reputation, as few re- 
ceive a larger measure of merited recognition, than that of T. 
White's Sons, the well-known and responsible truckmen and for- 
warders, whose office is located at No. 44 Kilby street. They are 
in all respects one of the leading and best equipped concerns in 
this important branch of business in Boston, and have a very large, 
permanent patronage. They have in service thirty horses, and a 
corresponding number of trucks, wagons, etc., while twenty ex- 
perienced drivers and others are employed, the proprietors exer- 
ercising close personal supervision over every featurcand detail of 
the business. Trucking of every description is promptly and re- 
liably attended to, special attention being given to lumber and 
heavy freight, while goods are forwarded to all parts of the United 
States, by rail and water, with despatch, every facility being at 
hand for handling steam engines, boilers, machinery, etc. ; and all 
business entrusted to these gentlemen is certain to be attended to 
in the most expeditious and satisfactory manner. This Hourisli- 
iug enterprise was originally slartea some twenty years ago by T. 
White (deceased), who conducted the same up to 1880 when owing 
to his death, the business passed into the hands of Ills sonsaiid suc- 
cessors, F. J. and J. J. White. In January 1S86, one of the brothers 
—J. J. White— was also removed by death, and E. K Houghton w;is 
admitted into partnership, and under the style of T. White's Sons 
the business has since been continued with uninterrupted success. 
Messrs. White and Houghton are both young men of energy and 
untiring industry, tlioroughly reliable in their business relations, 
and fully merit the large measure of public favor they enjoy. 



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AMKRirAN CRir MACniXE COMPANY, No 114 State Street. 
— Aniiing tlie many rein,ii'kable productions of American 
inventive genius which liave appeared within recent years, 
aiul wliieh have challenged praise and won the appi'ecia- 
tion of the puljlic, is tliat ingenious device known as tlie hand- 
power grip inacliiiie. A ieading concern cng.aged in tlie manufac- 
ture of tliis production is tiie American Grip M.acliine 
Company, whose iieadqnartersare located at No. 114 State Street, 
tills city. The organization of tliis company was effected in Nov- 
ember, 18S8, the capital being Si5,(X)0. Witii a good article to pl.ace 
upon tlie market, and energy and ability to direct its affairs, the 
company has already met with Haltering success, and over two 
hundred of tlieir liandpowcr grip m.achlnes are now in use in vari- 
ous sections of the United States and Canada, while thedemand for 
them is constantly on the increase. Tlie machines are fully pro- 
tected by patents owned by the company, and it is well worth 
while to make an examination of their merits. The machine is op- 
erated by dropping a nickel into a slit in the top of the 
apparatus, and then gripping the handle of tlie machinp, tlie 
number of pounds gi'ipped being registered on a di.il. Constant 
practice will strengthen the muscles of the hand an<l arm, so that 
physical benelit is received, wiiile there is a continual opening for 
friendly bouts of strength between friends who may meet where 
the machinesare placed. The company dispose of themacliineson 
ninety-nine year leases, which Is a practical ownership to llie party 
who takes the lease, and they are also willing to sell the sale rights 
to any undisposed of territory. In every place where the machines 
have been put they have been a source of much profit. The orti- 
cers of the company are the following well-known gentlemen: 
President, Walter P. Clarke: tre.asurer, Henry E. Russell: Direct- 
ors, R. J. Edwards, H. E. Rnssel, Walter P. Clark, Thornton N. 
Motley, Schuyler Waldcn. Interested persons will obtain furtlier 
information by addressing the company at their office in tins city. 
The following parties liave their grip machine in use, and recom- 
mend it highly: Becknian & Punchard, proprietors of the Parker 
House ; machine in one year took in $255. J. K. Whipple. proprietor 
Young's Hotel; machine in one year took in $li5. H. M. Harts- 
horn *i Co, proprietors of the Tremont House; machine in one year 
took in $98. M. Englehardt, No. 30 Avery Street, machine in 
nine months took in $87.33. Hoilis & Cobb, Washington Street. 
machine In one year took in $152.05 

IRVING A. HOWE, Manufacturer of the Hub Shirt, the Hub 
Wrajis and Hub Drawers; Salesroom, No. 383 Washington 
street. Room 10— The manufacture of novelties in sliirts, 
wr;ips and drawers has in this city grown to .an extent of 
great importance, affording employment to vast capital and many 
tlionsands of operatives. It is a business peculiarly adapted to the 
female sex, who find in it a lucrative employment both at their 
homes and elswhere. For more than thirty years Mr. 
Irving A. Howe has been one of the most noted manu- 
facturers in this line in the city, and lias won, through 
the real merits of his productions, a leading place in the front 
rank of American manufacturers of shirts, wraps, bath robes, draw- 
ers, etc. He founded the business in 1857, and its history from the 
first has been one of continuous success His salesroom is at No, 
38.'! Washington Street, room 10, and this is appropriately fitted up 
and arranged for the business. It is heavily stocked with materi- 
als and manuf:ictured goods, and every facility is at hand for 
promptly and satisfactorily meeting all orders. Fourteen hands 
are employed here, and this number includes sever.il experienced 
cutters of garments. All the manufacturing is done outside, Mr. 
Howe having In service a large nnmlier of women, who make up 
goods at their homes. These goods include smoking, olflce and 
lucakfast jackets, bath robes, shirts, drawers, wrajis. etc.. and a 
brisk wholesale and retail trade is done throngliout the United 
st.ates. The Hub Wraps and Hub Drawers, with suspensory gore, 
are made under patent, granted August 8, 1871. Tiiesa wraps and 
drawers are made from non shrinking goods, manufactured ex 
pressly in all weights and colors for Mr. Howe, and they have a 
freedom whicli cannot be obtained in any other pattern. The Hub 
Shirt, noted for being stylish, easy and perfect Httin'.; are made to 
order as desired, but a liberal stock of ready made goods is always 
kept on hand ready for shipment Mr Howe is a native of Rut 
land, and Is universally esteemed for his business ability 



THOS. HOLLIS, Drugs, Medicines, and (Jheinical.-5, No. 23 
Union Street.— In many respects tlie wholesale and ret;ui 
drug establishment of Thonuis Hoilis, at No. 23 Union 
Street, is tlie most eminently representative in its line oi 
any in this city. To its splendid f.acilities as dealers and manu- 
facturers, it addsold-cstablished, influential connections, wliilethe 
management is in tlie hands of young men full of zeal and vigor 
and possessed at the same time of vast practical experience. The 
business was founded in 1826 by Mr. Thomas HoUis, wlio died in 
1S76, anil was succeeded by his two sons, Messrs. Thomas and 
Francis Hoilis. who continue the business under the honored name 
of Its originator and founder. Tiiey occupy the whole building at 
the above number, which is utilized lor the extensive business trans- 
acted. Both partners are skilled workers, their eyes supervise 
every detail, and tlicir guarantee as to purity, freshness and ac- 
curacy, means exactly what it says. This old stand at sign of the 
golden mortar, has long been recognized as a land-mark in the his- 
tory of the p;ist and a prime factor in tlie commeice of the pres- 
ent. The proprietors deal at both wholesale and retail in drugs, 
medicines and ciiemieals of all kinds, and are also widely proiiii- 
nent .as extensive manufacturers, and keep all valuable patent 
medicinals. They carry a full supply of all these specialties, be- 
sides a great variety of other articles needed for mechanical, 
chemical and culinary purposes, not usually keiit by druggists. 
Their goods are in heavy and permanent demand, not only through 
out the entire United States, but in Turkey, the Sandvvicli Islands 
andotlier foreign countries. The stock recommends its own pecu 
liar merits to the confidence and patronage of critical and dis- 
criminating purciiasers, Willie a corps of skilled assistants give 
prompt attention to tlie demands of the tr.ade. Tlie Messrs. Hoilis 
are members of tlie Wholesale Druggists Association, and stand 
high in trade circles, and it is to such houses that Boston owes her 
supremacy iu the drug trade. 

JM. JELLISON & CO , Boston and Maine Drug Company, 
Haymarket Square.— One of tiie leading houses in the drug 
^ tiade in Boston and one ol the oldest established, is that 
of ,1 M Jeliison & Co., the Boston and Maine Drug Com- 
pany. The establishinent of this business dates b.ack to 1844 
when Messrs Win and Ellis Miller opened it in the same 
place, carrying it on for over a quarter of a century with 
marked success They were succeeded by Riley & Stebbms and 
tlie latter five years ago by the present lirni The store is one 
of the most attractive on the street and is 25x6t feet in dimensions. 
A full line of the purest drugs and chemicals is carried as well as 
all the leading pioprietary remedies laney articles, surgical goods 
etc , while the preparatunis of the house are numerous, including 
Jeliison s Honey of Horcliound Cough Cure. Jeliison s Diarrhoea 
Cure, Jeliison s Diabetes Water, winch are standard remedies of 
their kind and are in great demand all over the city. A large 
wholesale and retail trade is carried on, four clerks being em- 
ployed 111 the establishment which is also a favorite place for the 
filling of physicians' prescriptions Mr Jeliison is a native of 
Lyman, York County, Maine He has li;id fifteen years experience 
in llie drug trade, is a regular licensed pharmacist and is regarded 
as one of the safest and most capable men in his line. 

LB. FRAZIER. Stock Broker. No 19 Exchange Place, Room 
7 —Among llie most popular and responsible stock brokers 
I of Boston may be mentioned the name of I.. B Frazieri 
whose office is at Room 7. No 19 Exchange Pl.ace. Mr. 
Frazier. wiio is a gentleman of middle age, was born at Lynn, 
M.ass , and li.as his residence at Lynn. He is a man of strict probity 
in all his dealing and business I'elations, and also of energy, sa 
gaeity and thorough experience in stock operations, enjoying .a 
creditable reputation in tlie financial circles of the city Estab- 
lishing himself in business here in 1875, Mr Frazier has, during the 
fourteen years since interveulng by judicious transactions, close 
study of the market and unfailing devotion to the interests of his 
clients, steadily increased his liold on [lublic confidence and favor 
until his patronage has grown to quite substantial proportions 
He buys and sells stocks bonds and securities and also deals lit 
western cable roads etc . doing a strictly commission business; 
special attention being given to negotiating corporation and mu- 
nicipal loans. 



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SHATl'UCK & JONES, Dealers in all kimls of Fresh Fish, 
Lobsters and Pickled Fish, Green Turtle and Terrapin, No. 
128 Faneuil II.aII Market.— A leading and one of the oldest 
firms engaged In the handling and sliipping of seafood, in 
the Faneuil Hall Market, is that of Shattuck & Jones, dealers in 
all kinds of fresh fish, pickled fish, lobsters, terrapin etc., whose 
commodious and well equipped stall is centrally situated at No. 
128, Faneuil Hall Market, and which Is one of the oldest 
stalls in the market, having been opened in 1826. It 
is one of the oldest, foremost and most responsible IJrnis de- 
voted to tills branch of business in Boston, and fully sustains 
to-day its well-earned reputation for choice goods and re- 
liable dealing, none better in tliis city. This flourishing business 
was established in 1851 by Messrs. George Shattuck and Allan H. 
Jones, under the firm name of Shattuck & Jones, and by these 
gentleman it was conducted up to 1806. when Mr. Shattuck was re- 
moved by death: Mr. Jones, the surviving partner, continuing 
alone for some years and then admitted into partnership his son 
Clias. A. Jones. In 1881, on the occasion of tlie death of Mr Jones, 
E B. Newton became a member of the firm, and under the 
original style of Shattuck & Jones, which has endured from the 
start, tlie business has since been carried on with uninterrupted 
success. The premises occupied in the market are spacious, well- 
ordered and completely equipped with all the latest improved ap- 
purtenances for the storage, display .and preserving of fish, etc., in- 
cluding a capaci()us aquarium, while eigliteen efficient assistants are 
employed. An extensive and varied stock is constantly carried on 
hand to meet the requirements of a steady and wide demand, and 
Includes everytliing in tlie line of oce.an, lake and river tish, both 
fresh and pickled; also lobsters, green turtle and terrapin, and 
also pure cod liver oil, and the tr.ide of the firm which is both 
wholesale and retail, is exceedingly large, extending throughout 
the New England States and to New York, Philadelphia .lud other 
sections of the country. Messrs. Jones and Newton, who are na- 
tives respectively of Boston and Weymouth, Mass., are both gentle- 
men of entire probity in their dealings. 

PETTEE MACHINE WORKS. Manufacturers of Cotton Mill 
Machinery , ORice, No. 70 Kilby Street.— Among other nuv 
cliiiie shops that have lately brought out some Improvements 
in cotton machinery, special mention should be made of the 
Pettee Machine Works, which is the first shop in America to un- 
dertake the building of the Revolving Flat Carding Engine. The 
manufacture of carding m.achinery was begun by the late Mr. 
Otis Pettee, in 1S31, and who, from small beginnings developed a 
large trade in various kinds of cotton machinery. He was consid- 
ered an authority on cotton mill machinery for many years, and 
even now his speeders may be found in mills all over the country, 
doing excellent work when their age is considered. Eventually, in 
1882, the important interests involved were duly capitalized, with 
ample resources and improved f.acilities at command, a number 
of leading capitalists of Boston and New England becoming inter- 
ested in the enterprise. Tlie aim of the new company has been to 
improve the works in every way and to build nothing but the best 
machinery, and it is now devoting its entire attention to its spe- 
cialty—carding machinery— and is manufacturing a class of ma- 
chinery unequalled elsewhere in America. To meet the rapid in- 
crease of orders the company has built a new shop, and its works 
at Newton Upper Falls are now the best equipped in their line of 
any on the continent, having special machine tools, etc., and af- 
fording employment to upwards of 250 hands. The works are now 
largely eng.iged in the manufacture of the Revolving Flat Carding 
Engine, which is the best system for producing coar.se, medium 
and fine counts, the yarn being stronger, with less waste and labor, 
coupled with a great saving of floor space. These engines are be- 
ing made interchangeable in all their parts, and flnished with the 
greatest accuracy. Every machine is tested before leaving the es- 
tablishment, all appliances and accessories are the best of their 
kind, and the machines are now rapidly being introduced into the 
finest cotton mills of New England and the Middle States. They 
also manufacture combination and top-flat cards: Eng- 
lish and American drawing frames and railway heads, with or 
without Byley's dofter-reversing motion and patent chain-evenor: 
also furnish all repairs for Higgiiis' roving frames and Pettee 
speeders and looms. 



EUSTIS & ALDKICH, General Commission Merchants and 
Dealers in Starch and Flour, Nos. 55 Kilby and 92 Water 
Streets.— A representative and widely known firm in Bos- 
ton, actively engaged as general connnission merchants 
and dealers in flour and starch, is tliat of Messrs. Eustis & Aid- 
rich. This extensive business was established ten years ago by 
Messrs. A. S. Eustis and Frank Aldricli, both of whom bring 
ample resources to bear and possess influential connections in all 
sections of the United States. They deal largely in potato, corn 
and wheat starch and flour in car-load lots. Messrs. Eustis & 
Aldrich make a specialty of handling potato starch, and are sell- 
ing agents for the famous Aroostook Starch Company and also for 
other choice brands of Maine, New York and New Hampshire 
potato starch. They promptly fill the largest orders for flour or 
starch at the lowest ruling market prices, and their trade noW 
extends throughout .all sections of the country. The Arm makes 
liber.al advances when required on consignments of first-class 
flour and starch, and guarantees at all times quick sales and 
prompt returns. The characteristics which regulate the business 
policy of this responsible firm are such as to entitle it to every 
consideration, while the extent of its business has made it the 
most prominent one in its line in Boston, and the inducements 
offered to customers are of the most substantial character. Mr 
A. S. Eustis was born in Maine, while Mr. Frank Aldrich is a 
native of New Hampshire. Both partners are popular members ot 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, where they are highly esteemed 
for their promptness, enterpri.se and integrity. Mr. Eustis is also 
a director of the Fourth National Bank, and one of our pro- 
gressive and public spirited citizens. 

BEAMAN BROTHERS, 'Commission Merchants, No. 234 State" 
Street.— Of the many responsible Arms engaged iu handling 
the products of the British Provinces here in Boston, few, 
if any, are more widely or honorably known In the trade 
than tliat of Beaman Bros., commission merchants, No 234 State 
Street. The house was established in 1869 by Messrs. Nathaniel 
P. and George H. Beaman, who conducted the same with unin- 
terrupted prosperity up to November, 18S7, when the last named 
member of the firm retired, Mr. Nathaniel Beaman since con- 
tinuing the business alone with uniform success. The house is 
conducted on strict business principles, and its management 
characterized by energy, sagacity ana honorable methods, while 
all orders pl.aced with llie concern are filled in the most expedi- 
tious and excellent manner. The firm handles Nova Scotia 
canned lobsters, salt and smoked fish, potatoes, eggs, butter, lard 
and gener,al produce; also lumber, receiving consignments regu- 
larly from Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and Prince Edward's Is- 
land, and does a commission business entirely; and, altogether 
the trade of the house is of a very substantial character. Mr. 
Beaman, who is a man of middle age and a native of this state, is 
a gentleman of the highest personal integrity as well as of push, 
enterprise and thorough exjierience in this line, and. maintains an 
excellent standing in commercial life. 

IM, GEORGE & CO. .Commission Merchants. Foreign and Do- 
mestic Fruits, Butter,Cheese, Eggs. Beans, Poultry and Lard, 
J No. 114 South Market Street.— Messrs. I. M. George & Co., as 
commission merchants are constantly in receipt of consign- 
ments, and supply a widespread wholesale trade. The operations 
of the firm are very extensive, and ample premises are provided 
for storage purposes. While foreign and domestic fruits are 
handled in large quantities, a specialty is made of prime creamery 
and dairy butter, and cheese, poultry, beans, lard and country 
produce generally. This house which is reckoned one of the most 
substantial in this line of trade in the city, was established in 1880, 
by Baldwin & George wlio continued it for seven years, when I. M. 
George & Co. succeeded to it, and have sinceenlarged the facilities 
and extended the operations. Consignments are solicited and 
quick sales and prompt returns are made, and as an evidence of 
the cliaracter and standing of the house, it is only necessary to state 
that among tlie references offered are The Traders' National Bank 
of Boston, and any produce house in the city, and Mr". J. E. George 
ot Barre, Vermimt. Mr. George who is a young man, is a native of 
Vermont. He has full charge of the management of the business 
of the house, and conducts it in a manner to make it popular. 



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E, NICKERSON, Patentee ol Nickeisons HyiUaulic 
Elevator Safety, No 82 Sudbury Street.— An invention 
aestinea to 




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son is an ingenious mechanic, and w.is born at ProvincetowT in 
this state, and resides in Cambridge. He is well known in this 



in t o 
universal use is the 
unique device invented 
and patented by Mr W 
E Nickerson for pre- 
venting the tailing of 
elevators, thereby avoid- 
ing accidents and dan- 
ger to property, life and 
limb. Eleven patents 
have been allowed and 
several more are pend- 
ing and It IS endorsed by 
elevator manufacturers, 
architects and median, 
ics. and Is pronounced 
the most positive, sub- 
stantial, secure and per- 
fect device j'et intro- 
duced It is designed to 
increase the safety of 
elevators and guard 
against their falling 
from any cause, and 
combines great strength 
with simplicity and can 
be applied to any style 
of elevator and never 
fails to act under any 
circumstances, or gets 
out of order. The ma- 
chine or device is pr.ac 
tieally double, either 
side alone being suffi- 
cient to prevent a fall, 
and converts the ropes 
usually supporting the 
counter balance weight 
only into regular sus- 
pension ropes thus In- 
creasing tlie safety a 
thousand fold, and is 
certainly the most per- 
fect safety device ever 
before brought to the 
notlceof the public Old 
or unsound elevators 
are m,ade safe by apply- 
ing It, thereby obviating 
the necessity of the ex- 
pense of a new one. The 
Nickerson hydraulic ele- 
vator safety will soon 
be introduced in Boston 
and in all the laige 
cities, and all who have 
witnessed its operation 
uniformly agree in say- 
ing that it is the best 
device for tlie purpose, 
and is pre-eminently 
superior to any other 
device for the purpose 
to which it Is designed, 

and wherever used is 

giving perfect satisfac- /^^\ 

tion. Mr. Nickerson will j/ji:;;;^^^ 

soon be prepared to man- \y 

ufacture this unexcelled 

machine on an extensive — 

scale, and will lie pleased to answer all inciuiries and s 

giving full particulars to any address on application. 




'lid circulars 
Mr. Nicker- 



community, and since lie introduced the elevatoi- safety he is 
receiving many inquii-ies concerning it and is kept constantly 
busy filling orders from various sections of the United St.ates, 

CHARLES CARK, Consulting Mechanical Engineer, No. 7 Ex 
change Place -For thoroughly reliable and expert work m 
the line of mechanical drawingsand designs, or for skill and 
reliability in nmchine construction, there is not to-day in 
this city a man that sustains a higher reputation than the gentle- 
man whose name stands at the head of this sketch He is, by general 
consent, one of the foremost exponents of mechanical engineering 
m Boston ; and prior to establishing himself in tlieexercise of his art 
here in 1885. had been for twenty years the efficient general man 
ager of the Boston Machine Comiiany : and is .still their contractor 
for specialties Mi-. Carr. occupies as offices two well equipped rooms 
at No 7 Exchange Place, is amiddle-aged gentleman active and en 
ergetic, and was born in Maine, but h.ts resided in Boston some 
thirty odd years He is a practical and expert niaehinist. as well as 
an experienced andsuccessful consulting mechanicalengineer and 
IS master of his profession in all itsfeaturesaiid details. Machinery 
IS designed, and detailed drawings furnished in the most expeditious 
and excellent manner, while constrnction is personally superin- 
tended, and the .same also contracted for, Mr. Carr likewise being 
prepared to give consultations and render professional advice at 
rea.sonable terms. Attention is given also to outside woik; in 
short, everything comprehended in mechanical engineering is ex- 
ecuted in the most superior and reliable manner at short notice. 

WC. DEMAIN & SON, Blank Book Manufacturers and 
Steam Paper Rulers, Nos 31 Milk, 8 Ilawleyand 9 
, Arch Streets.— The leading manufacturers of blank 
books in this city are Messis.W. c. Demain & Son, who 
are widely prominent as patenteesof variousattachnientsmi paper 
ruling machines The business was established in JS65 by Mr. \V 
C Demain, the present tirin being organized in 1865 by the admis- 
sion of Mr. W. C. Demain, Jr., to partnership. The business prem- 
ises are spacious In size, thoroughly equipped with new and im- 
proved inachineiy and appliances, including twelve ruling and 
two cutting machines, and ample steam power, and steady em- 
ployment is given to from twenty to twenty-five skilled hands. 
The co-partners have no peers in their vocation, the senior partner 
being the patentee of the first paging and numbering machine 
ever introduced, and both bring to bear the widest range of prac 
tical experience in every department of the business. The firm 
personally superintend all the work performed, and canyon a gen- 
eral line of transactions as manufacturers of blank books of every 
description, and as steam paper rulers. Ample resources are pos- 
sessed for prmnptly meeting all orders at the shortest possible 
notice. Their patronage is laige, fii-st-class and permanent in this 
city and throughout the New England States. The Messrs. De- 
main are natives of Liverpool, England. 



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THE LEARNARD & BIRD OIL COMPANY, Manufacturers 
and Wholesalers of Oleomargarine Oil, Tallow and Stearine, 
Office, Nos. 38 and 50 Faneuil Hall Market.— Few, if any, of 
the scientilic discoveries in tlie domain of chemistry in late 
years have been more wonderful and none more useful to tlie gen- 
eral niiisses of the public than oleomargarine, or butterine, as it is 
sometimes called, and oleomargarine oil, tallow and stearine. The 
process of manufacturing butter from beef suet was invented by 
Mr. Mege, a progressive and accomplished French chemist and sci- 
entist about twenty years ago. Notwithstanding the opposition 
cries which have been raised to oleomargarine hundreds of an- 
alyses have shown it to be as pure, clean, palatable and healthful 
as the best products of the dairy, and that it is nothing more nor 
less than good wholesoine butter, differing, it is true, from the 
dairy product in the manner of its preparation, but not In its con- 
stituent parts or molecular formation. It is as much a beef and farm 
product as dairy butter, and has the advantage over the old article 
of uniformity in taste, color and general appearance. The Learn- 
ard & Bird Oil Company, whose factory is at Brighton, and whose 
city otnce is at Nos. 38 and 50 Faneuil Hall Market, are largely en- 
g.aged in the manufacture of this oleomargarine oil, tallow and 
stearine. The concern was formed in 18S6 by Mr. S. S. Learuard 
and Mr. H. Bird . The latter died in 1881, and the business has 
since been conducted by Mr. Learuard alone. He is a native 
of Brighton, and has been connected with the meat business in 
Faneuil Hall Market tor the past fifty-four years. The factory is 
provided with the most modern and efHcient mechanical applian- 
ces, and twenty hands are employed in the business. About two 
hundred cattle are weekly slaughtered to supply meat to the 
market, and the [at of beasts is used in the factory for tlie manu- 
facture of oleomargarine oil, much of which is shipped to Rotterdam, 
and the rest sold for that purpose and converted into butterine. 
Tallow and stearine are also made in large quantities. Tlie 
products of the establishment are noted for their purity and excel- 
lence, and the trade, which is exclusively wholesale, has attained 
large dimensions, and is constantly expanding. In trade circles 
:io man is better known or more highly esteemed for business 
ability and probity than Mr. Learnard. 

F H.JOHNSON & CO., Wholesale, Retail and Commission 
Dealers in all kinds of Fresh Fish, Stall No. 114 Faneuil 
^ H.all Market.— The growth which has attended the fish 
trade of Boston is illustrative, in no small degree, of that 
general development which has characterized the commerce and 
nianufiTctures of the city, during the past quarter of a century. 
The demand for fish now includes, not only for home consumption, 
but also heavy cargoes for foreign shipment, certain brands of 
goods, packed in Boston having gained a great reputation abroad. 
When it is stated that nearly J9,000,000 worth of salt and fresh fish 
is disposed of annually in Boston, some idea of the extent to which 
the trade has grown may be formed. Ever since Faneuil Hall 
Market was built, Stall No. 114 has been a noted one among fish con- 
sumers and dealers. For a score of years the proprietors at this 
stall have been Messrs. F. H. Johnson &Co., and they have and do 
conduct ii trade of great magnitude. The stall is a spacious one, 
and is provided with all necessary appliances and conveniences 
essential to the successful carrying on of the business. It is at all 
times heavily stocked with an endless variety of fresh fish of every 
description, and the trade is of a conimi.ssion, wholesale and retail 
character. The facilities of the firm in every department are un- 
snrp,assed, and it has alwiiys been a strict rule with them to sell 
everything exactly as represented, hence dealers and consumers 
everywhere know that the goods offered by this concern may be 
implicitly relied upon A large and growing city and out of town 
trade is enjoyed, and twelve bands are necessarily constantly em- 
ployed in supplying the w.ants of customers. Tlie business is car- 
ried on upon a basis of liberal and honorable dealing, and the firm 
merit the prominence and success enjoyed. Mr. F. H. Johnson is 
the sole proprietor. He is a native of Nahant, Mass., and a 
merchant of the highest repute. 

CHARLES POLLOCK. Art and Landscape Photographs, No. 2 
Hamilton Place.— The charming repository of art conducted 
by Mr. Charles Pollock, at Nu. 2 Hamilton Pl.ace, was first 
opened to the public in 1867, on Washington Street. The in- 



creasing demands of the public necessitated larger quarters, and 
the present spacious and elegant premises weie occupied in 1887. 
The store is thoroughly modern and attractive in all its arrange- 
ments and appointments, handsomely fitted up with plate-glass 
windows, cherry fixtures and elaborate interior decorations, and 
perfect in convenience of arrangement for display, inspection and 
sale. Devoting exclusive attention to those artistic novelties by 
which the home is enriched and the cliarm of domestic life is 
heightened, there is no order of goods of such character that may 
not here be found in the greatest prodigality. Special attention ia 
given to these three departments. Studies forartists, illustrations 
of architecture, imported mainly from France and Italy, and life 
portraits of tlie most distinguished individuals in Euiope and 
America. The products of all nations and all climes, herellnd their 
w.ay. The magnificent stock, carefully selected under the trained 
eye and artistic tastes of tlie proprietor, by which the house seeks to 
deserve and maintain its high position, are ablysupplemented by a 
corpsofassistants.each chosen with special reference, to ability and 
experience ready at all times to assist the purchaser by their fine 
technical knowledge The patronage is large, Hrst-class and influ- 
ential in city and country, and the specialties here offered in art and 
landscape photograplis, are recognized as the finest specimens iu 
their line to be louiid in the city. Popular prices prevail, and the 
most critical and fastidious tastes are re.idily suited .ind promptly 
met through the enterprise and judgment of the talented proprie- 
tor. Mr. Pollock IsaBostonian by birth and education, for thirty 
years an exponent of this branch of mercantile activity, and a 
gentleman of great popularity m social, business and art circles. 

GL. TURNBULL, Ready Made Clothing, Hats and Furnish- 
ing Goods, Nos. 2U and 31 Meridian Street.— It may not be 
^ uninteresting to the masculine reader of this volume to 
receive some information pertaining to the matters of 
attire, for the apparel oft claims the man, which may result in fu- 
ture advantage. As the caption of this sketch indicates we refer 
to the house of Mr. G. L. Turnbull, the popular and widely known 
dealer in ready nuade clothing, hats and furnishing goods, Nos. 29 
and 31 Meridian Street. The business was originally established 
by Mr. Turnbull at No 26 Maverick Square, where it continued to 
be conducted until August, 1888, when it was removed to its present 
eligible location. The premises occupied consist of a most attrac- 
tive store with a frontage of fifty feet and a depth of thirty-five 
feet, and this is most elegant and attractive in its fittings and ap- 
pointments. The stock shown embraces a full and complete 
assortment of ready-made clothing of the best materials and 
workmanship and in all the leading popular styles; also hats and 
caps representing tlie latest Lasliions, and all the newest styles of 
gentleiuen's furnishing goods, including flue Imported and domes- 
tic hosiery, shirts, underwear, neckwear, gloves, etc. In fact, the 
stock in all departments quite equals in quality and variety any 
that may be found in the metropolis of New England. A special 
feature is made of Carter & ChurchiU's Lebanon overalls, nf which 
a large assortment is kept on hand. While the stock is large the 
prices are low, and the result is a brisk and extensive trade. Mr. 
Turnbull is a native of Massachusetts and resides at Winthrop. He 
is a wide-awake, energetic, courteous business man. 

SOULE, DILLINGHAM & CO., Pavers and Street Railway Con- 
tractors, No. 4 Liberty Square.— This firm are widely promi- 
nent as practical pavere and street railway contractors, and 
have been established in business here since 1884. They are 
thoroughly equipped for promptly executing all kinds of plain and 
fancy paving on streets, sidewalks and avenues, and for setting of 
curbstones and supplying all kinds of materials for paving and 
railway stock. Particular attention is given to the construction of 
street railways, and they have carried througli to a successful 
completion many important contracts, including the horse railroads 
at Lawrence, Mass. ; Cambridge, Miiss. ; Portland, Me. ; Waterville, 
Me.; Haverhill, Aniesbury, Newburyport, East Salisbury and 
Ixiwell, Mass.; Plinn Island, Black Rocks, and other places through 
out New England, besides many private contracts in this city and 
vicinity. They furnish all kinds of paving and railway stock, and 
give steady employment to a large force of skilled hands, and their 
resources and facilities are such as enable them to fill all orders 
and commissions with the utmost promptness. 



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HBIRD & CO., Dealers in Beef, Pdik, Laid and Tallow, 
Smoked Beef, Hams, Pigs' Feet, Tiipe, Etc., also Leainaid 
I and Bird Oil Co's Piodiict, Tallow, Olio Oil, Etc., Nos. 38 
and 40 Faneiiil Hall Market.— Boston is not behind any 
city in the world in the extent and magnitude of its provision 
trade, and the enterprise which characterizes her representative 
firms is not excelled in any other branch of commerce. One of the 
leading and best-known houses in this line is that of Messrs. H 
Bird & Co., at Nos. 38 and 40 Faneuil Hall Market. This firm are 
widely prominent as wholesale and retail dealers in beef, pork, 
lard and tallow, smoked beef, hams, pigs' feet, tripe, etc. ; also, 
Learnard & Bird Oil Co.'s product, tallow, olio oil, and packers of 
the celebrated India mess beef. The business was founded iu 1826, 
by Mr. Harrison Bird, and in 1870 the present firm was organized 
by the admission of Mr, A. H. Bird— a son of the founder— and Mr. 
R. H. Sturtevant to partnership. Mr. Harrison Bird died in 1887, 
•deeply lamented as one of Boston's oldest and most honored 
merchants. This lirm slaughter their own meats, and are also 
largely interested in the' manufacture of oil from beet fats, made 
for use in making olemargarine, by Learnard & Bird, atBrighton, 
Mass., and ship the product in immense quantities to Rotterdam, 
Holland. As packers of India mess beef, they have an extensive 
trade in London and Liverpool, shipping the beef In tierces— 304 
pounds to a tierce— for use in the English army and navy. Their 
trade in fresli beef, pork and other meat products is immense and 
Influential in this city and its suburban towns, and extends, during 
the summer months, to the mountains and seaside resorts through- 
out New England. This firm supplies many of the largestand lead- 
ing hotels and club houses in this city witli all their beef and pork, 
including the Tremont Hotel and the Quincy Hotel ; alsoWellesley 
College, and other noted public institutions and resorts. No firm 
of the present day recognizes more fully than the partners the es- 
sential importance of absolute purity, quality and freshness in this 
class of goods, and their patrons have the satisfaction of knowing 
that nothing inferior or adulterated will be offered them. Orders 
by telephiine, or otherwise, will be given prompt and careful at- 
tention, and every advantage is granted to patrons that is embraced 
in reliable goods and economy of prices. Employment Is given to 
a force of fourteen skilled hands, and the trade is brisk and lively 
at all seasons of tlie year. Mr. Bird was born In Brookline, Mass., 
while Mr. Sturtevant is an.ative of Centre Harbor, N. H., and both 
are gentlemen of large business experience, high social repute and 
eminent popularity and are gentlemen with whom it is a pleasure 
to do business. 

A. DUNBAR, Poultry and Game of all kinds, Nos. 10, 12, 
14 and 16 Quincy .Market.— Boston and its surroundings 
contain a population reaching far on towards a million, 
to .say nothing of the large number of strangers who daily 
visit the city. As a consequence our public markets are all con- 
stantly drawn upon more or less for the food supplies necessary to 
feed the multitude, but nowhere in the city is a larger number of 
people provided with the daily necessities of life than at Quincy 
Market, and no inconsiderable portion of the tr.ade done here is 
in the line of poultry and game. Among the old established and 
successful dealers we may mention Mr. D. A. Dunbar, whose 
neatly fitted up and commodious stalls are Nos. 10. 12, 14 and 16. 
The business now controlled by this gentleman w.as originally 
established by liis brother, the late Mr. Curtis S. Dunbar, about 
sixty years ago, and about thirty years since the present proprie- 
tor succeeded to the control of it. He makes a specialty of poul- 
try and of all kinds of game in season, and supplies dealers, 
hotels, restaurants and boarding houses as well as private families. 
He also does an extensive shipping trade to all points in the New 
England States. Being a good judge of poultry and game, and 
Jiaving proper facilities for handling the best, which is supplied at 
aeiisonable rates, his trade, as would naturally be inferred, is con- 
stantly being enlarged. Mr. Dunbar draws his supplies from the 
most reliable sources, and carrying at all timesa very extensive 
stock is prepared to fill all orders, large and small, promptly and 
.satisfactorily. Seven assistants are needed to cope with the de- 
mands upon the house and liberal and courteous treatment is ac- 
corded to all patrons. Mr. Dunbar is a native of Easton, Mass., 
and both as a merchant and private citizen is held in high estima- 
tion. 



SP.VLDING, ELMS & CO., Importers and Jobbers of Tailor's 
Trinnnings, No. 27 Franklin Street.— A leading firm of im- 
porters and jobbers of tailors' trimmings in this city is that 
of Messrs. Spalding, Elms & Co., whose establishment is 
located at No. 27 Franklin Street. The members ot this firm, 
Messrs. Chas. E. Spalding and Jos. D. Elms, are gentlemen ot large 
and valuable experience in this branch of trade, and combined 
their abilities and talents to form the present firm in 1884. They 
occupy spacious and conunodious salesrooms in the business heart 
of the city, and are in a position to conduct their extensive trade 
under the most favorable conditions. They import their supplies 
direct from the most reputable foreign sources, and are prepared 
to minister to every requirement of the trade with unexampled 
promptness and universal satisfaction. An immense stock is car- 
ried at all times to supply the host of permanent patrons of the 
firm throughout New England and New York, while every advan- 
tage Is granted to customers fn liberality ot terms and prices that 
is known to the trade. Their magniftcent stock Is celebrated tor 
original novelties and shades, textures, patterns and combinations, 
and as suited to meet the best classes ot American trade, recom- 
mending its own superior merits to the confidence and patronage 
of critical and discriminating purchasers. The house Is a strong 
one, both by reason ot the talents of the partners and their un- 
rivalled connections abro.ad, while their interests are represented 
on the road by a corps of talented and experienced salesmen. Both 
members ot the firm are Massachusetts men by birth and training, 
ot high repute and standing in trade circles throughout New Eng- 
land and New York, and evidently deserving of the success and 
prosperity they have achieved as enterprising merchants and rep- 
resentative business men. 

B JOHNSON, Mutton, Lamb and Veal, Wholesale and Re- 
tail, Nos. 1 and 3 Faneuil Hall Market.— The trade in fresh 
J meats is one of the most important branches of business 
in the city, and, as a rule, is conducted by men of capital 
and ability ot a high order. In Faneuil Hall Market there are to 
be found some of the finest stands devoted to this business to be 
seen in any market in the country, notably those of Mr. B. John- 
son, Nos. 1 and 3, which are eligibly located at the entrance 
to the market. They are fitted up in a first-class manner, 
and provided with all the latest improved appliances for the 
preservation ot meats and the speedy handling ot supplies and 
the filling ot orders. Mr. Johnson is one of the best known men 
<loing business in this far tamed market. It is now more than 
twenty-eight years since he founded his enterprise liere, and his 
long career has been a most honorable and successful one. 
Liberality and straightforwardness have ever characterized his 
transactions, while his prompt and obliging manner have gained 
him his present circle ot customers, together with the respect of 
his competitors. His stall is a model ot cleanliness and order, and 
always presents an inviting appearance. A very heavy stock of 
choice mutton, lamb and veal is carried at all times, and can be 
relied upon for freshness and wholesomeness. A very active and 
extensive trade is done both in the city and suburbs, and is of botli 
a wholesale and retail cliaracter. The exigencies of the business 
call for the constant employment ot from four to live hands and a 
delivery wagon, and orders by mail, telephone or telegraph are 
promptly and satisfactorily filled at the lowest rates. 

FRED. N. LEMAN, Sign Painter, No. 75 Portland Stieet.— Mr. 
Fred. N. Leman, the widely known and skillful sign painter, 
has established something like a national reputation for 
meritorious work. He is, in all respects, one of the leading 
exponents ot the art in Boston, while his patronage extends to all 
parts ot the United States. Mr. Leman, who has a branch at No. 
4.5 Eliot Street, also, is a gentleman of middle age, and a native ot 
this city. He is a thoroughly practical and expert workman him- 
self, of long and varied experience in the exercise of his art, and 
is, in short, a genuine artist in his line. He has been established 
in business for the past twenty years, and has built up a large and 
flourishing trade. Sign andoniamentalpaintinginall its branches 
is executed in the highest style ot the art and in tlie most ex- 
peditious manner, some halt a dozen competent assistants being 
employed, and no orders are too large and none toosmall, while all 
work done by this gentleman is performed under his spervision. 



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WM. S 3UTLEK & CO., Importers and Ketailers of Millinery 
Goods, Hosiery, Etc., Nos. 90 to 93 Treniont Street.— In 
every brancliof mercantile. activity In alarge community, 
tliere is one liouse that Is justly and popul.irly spoken ot 
as tlie representative of its class. In the metropolitan city of Bos- 
ton in the line of the Hnest imported millinery, liosjery, gloves, small 
wares, etc., the position of supremacy is held by the firm of Messrs. 
Wm. S. Butler <S Co., who.se extensive.andiittr.active establishment 
is located at Nos. 90 to 93 Tremont Street. This business was es- 
tablislied oriKin.ally in 1S14, by Cushman & Brooks, who were suc- 
ceeded by E. F. Cushman In 1852, Seligm.in, M.acy & Butler in 1866, 
and Butler & Norwood in 1870. Eventu.ally in 1873. Mr. Wm. S. 
Butler became sole proprietor, and Is now conducting the business 
under the Arm name of Wm. S. Butler & Co. The premises occu- 
pied comprise a very superior five-story .and b.asement building, 
80x125 feet in dimensions, fully equipped with every appliance, 
which capital and .science can devise, includingelectrlclights.ele- 
v.ator, automatic cash system, etc., for the comfort and convenience 
of patrons. The wood work and splendid jilate glass front, and in- 
terior fittings convey a substantial yet highly luxurious aspect of 
elegance and beauty to the establishment. On the first floor will be 
found an extensive .and choice assortment ot hosiery, gloves, laces 
and ribbons, flowers .and feathers, untrimmed hats, millinery goods 
of every description and small wares. The second floor is fully 
stocked with cloaks, jerseys, jackets, corsets, bustles, ladies' and 
children's underwear, yarns, stamped linens, etc., .also china, bric- 
a-brac, v.asBS, china dolls, tea sets, etc. On the third floor is the 
upholstery department, which contains asuperior selection othigh 
art fabrics of every description including silk damasks, velours 
and rich silks in vast variety, brocatels, s.ateens, plushes, satins, 
etc., and .all kinds of upholstery trimmings of the latest styles and 
fashions. The fourth and fifth floors are utilized for the wholesale 
trade, .and cont.ain a full and complete stock of .all goods handled 
or imported by the house. The basement contains the packingand 
shipping dep.artments, and the electric light plant, also a spacious 
lunch roonifo clerks. Twohnndredsalesliidies, clerks, assistants, 
etc., .are employed in the v.arlous departments, who are very popu- 
lar with customers, owing to their kind and obliging manners, 
promptness and efiiciency. All the finest millinery goods are im- 
ported direct from the most celebrated Paris and London houses, 
and the imported hats and bonnets of this establishment are 
seen every day worn by the most fashionable members of so- 
ciety. In f.act all the goods handled by Wm, S. Butler & Co., 
are absolutely unriv.alled for quality, elegance, freshness and 
uniform excellence, and h.ave no superiors in this country, 
while the prices quoted in all cases are as low as the lowest. 
A thorough system of organization is observable in all de 
partments, Mr. Butler gives close personal attention to every de- 
tail, and is noted for his executive ability and honor.abie methods. 
Mr. Butler vv,as born in Connecticut and when a youtli came to 
Maiden, and served his apprenticeship. Subsequently he was 
employed in New York as a s.alesman by Seligman & I\Iacy, Mr. 
Butler is a type of the self-made man, who h.as risen by his own ex- 
ertions, frugality and Industry from a modest position to a promi- 
nent place in commercial circles. His establishment is a lasting 
source of credit to Boston, and a monument to his energy and en- 
terprise. 

HENRY COWAN, Importer of Fine Swiss Watch Materi.als, and 
Manufacturer of Jewelers' Trimmings and FinestQuality 
Silk Guards, Studio Building, No. 110 Tremont Street.— 
Keeping p.ace with the never-ceasing march of progress in 
science and art, very perceptible are the .advances which have been 
made during recent years in the watch-making and jewelry indus- 
tries in all their branches, wliich is observ.ant to every person giv- 
ing the matter the slightest attention. A well-known and reliable 
house engaged in some of the branches of the walch-iuaking and 
jewelry business in the city of Boston, and worthy of more than 
passing notice in these pages, is that of Mr. Henry Cowan, located 
in the studio building. No. 110 Tremont Street. This enterprise 
was Inaugurated originally in 1881 by Mr. Henry Cowan, and was 
conducted by him with the most encouraging results. Mr. Cowan 
is a native of Australia, about twenty-seven yearsof age, and has 
been a resident of this city ever since 1868. He is a thoroughly 
practical m.an in the business and gives it his entire attention. The 



premises occupied are sp.acious and commodious, and are fitted up 
in a very attractive manner, with eveiy convenience for tlictrans- 
•action of the trade. He conducts a very large business .as an nn- 
poiter of fine Swiss watch materials, direct from tlie most famous 
.and reliable eslabli.shmeuts in Switzerland, whose reputations are 
known throughout the entire civilized world. He .also manufac- 
tures all kinds of jewelers' trimmings for the trade .and llie finest 
quality of silk w.atch guards, a specialty with this house unsur- 
passed by any other in the United Stiites. In his store will be 
found at all times a full and complete assortment of all materi.als 
belonging to a watch, also other lines ot goods pertaining to his 
business. His trade extends throughout the United States, and Is 
constantly incre.asing in consequence of the splendid and unsur- 
p.assed inducements he is enabled to offer customers. The .advan- 
tages he derives by his superior connection with his correspon- 
dents in Switzerland, and mannfiicturing his own specialties he is 
prepiired to execute all orders promptly and satisfactorily, and at 
prices which cannot be duplicated elsewjiere. 

GLEN SHIRT & COLLAR CO.. Glen's Falls, N. Y., A. B. Rice 
Manager, Boston Store, No. 121 Treniont Street.— The nianu- 
f.acture of shirts, collars and cutfs has grown, as adistinct 
branch of industrial enterprise, to one of vast proportions in 
late years. The largest manuiactory in the country in this line is 
that of the Glen Shirt and Collar Company, located at Glen's Falls, 
N. Y. Since 1885 this company lias had a branch house in Boston, 
for the sale ot its manufactures. It was at first located on Essex 
Street, but in April, 1887, a removal was effected to the store now 
occupied .at No. 121 Tremont street, opposite Park Street church. 
It is now the leading establishment of its kind in Boston, and is 
under the manaBement of Mr. A. B. Rice, who isaBostonian by 
binh.and a graduate of Brown University class of '84, a gentleni.an 
of large pr.actical business experience. The store is a spacious 
one having a capacity of 30x100 feet, and is very eleg.antly and at- 
tractively fitted up. A very heavy stock of fine shirts, ladies' and 
gentlemen's colliirs and cuffs of the "Glen" brand, and made .at 
the company's Glen Falls factories, together with a full assortment 
of gentlemen's furnishing goods of all kinds, and representative of 
all the Latest novelties, is kept on hand. The busine.ss here is both 
wholesale and retail, and the trade h.as under the management of 
Mr. A. B. Rice, grown to large volume. The "Glen" shirts, collars 
and cuffs are recognized by the trade as the most perfect fitting, 
durable and handsomest goods made for the money. They are the 
product of skilled workm.anship. judicious and careful selection ol 
ni.aterials, and nice disciimin.ation in styles. The company aims to 
produce the best goods in tlie market for the least money, and to 
keep abreast of all competitors in bringing forward new. and popu- 
lar styles. Th.at it has succeeded is generally .admitted, the "Glen" 
goods being acknowledged leaders in the collar and cuff and shirt 
market. Thecompanyemploy 500 hands, have in use themost im- 
jiroved machinery, .and, buying raw materials in vast qii.antities at 
advantageous rates, are enabled to offer their manufactured goods 
at prices which defy competition. At the Boston house from 
eight to twelve assistants are employed, .and customers can rely 
upon prompt and courteous attention. 

ALFRED CLAPP & CO., Wholesale Lumber; Room No. 13, No. 
II Central Street.— Few, if any. among the many prosper- 
ous lumber linns that h.ave come to the front in this city of 
recent years have been more fortunate In attaining a stand- 
ing in the trade or building up a business connection than that ot 
Alfred Clapp & Co., whose office is located at No. 11 Central 
Street. (Room 13.) Established in 1881, this responsible and well 
known linn has from tlie first enjoyed an uninterupted career ot 
prosperity. The house is conducted on strict business principles, 
and its management char.acterized by energy and .sagacity; and 
all orders jilaced with this firm are promptly .and reliably attended 
to. They are commission merchants and wholesale dealers, and 
handle hard and soft lumber of every description, the transactions 
being by car .and cargo lots entirely, and the trade of the firm, 
which is at once large and active, extends all over the New Eng- 
land States. Mr. Alfred Clapp is the sole member, the company 
being nominal. He is a gentleman of entire responsibility in his^ 
dealings, as well as of experience and judicious enterprise, and is- 
a member of the Bay State Lumber Dealers' Association. 



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HORACE E. WALKER & CO , Manufactureis and Dealers 
in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces and Hotel Cooking Apparatus. 
Nos. 17 and 10 Union Stn-et —A most important new de- 
parture in the stove, I'ange and furnace trade, was taken by 
rganization on June 1. 1888, of tlie new of Messrs Uoiace 
E. Walker & Co. The copartners. Mr Horace E Walkcrand jMr. F. 
Volney Streeter, bring to bear the widest range of pi'actical ex- 
perience. Both gentlemen were for many years actively identified 
with the old Walker & Pi-.itt manufacturing company, and aie 
authorities in their line, making a prominent specialty of hotel 
cooking and heating apparatus, and of the Walker Furnaces. 
They have every facility at command, coupled with influential 
connections, and have developed an active, and far-reaclilng trade 
with bright prospect in the near future Their premises in Union 




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Btreet are extensive and (•(Miipn-.i' i.mr tlonri;, i,xi ji f,.i'i in di- 
mensions, with workshops for fitting and manufacturing in a tliree 
story building in the rear. Their factory and foundry are located 
at Haverhill. Mass., and where they are inoducing new and im- 
proved styles of stoves, ranges and furnaces, embracing all the 
modern iniprovements, and many s|)ecially desirable features 
nowhere else duplicated. An inspection of their fine salesrooms, 
so bright and attractive will prove conclusively that this stock is 
the best for the trade, both as regards heavy castings, careful de- 
sign, perfect finish and tittiiigs, while for both cooking and heat- 



ing, no lines of stoves and ranges are so economical on fuel, yet 
producing such effectual results. They are prepared to contr.act 
for and introduce the most perfect and extensive heating and 
cooking apparatus for hotels, restaurants clubs, etc , and having 
vast practical experience in this line, the special attention of hotel 
men and restaurant proprietors is directed thereto. The firms' 
system of steam and hot-water heating Is pronounced the best, 
safest and most economical of any by experts and an even temper 
ature Is maintained in the largest buildings at a minimum cost 
for fuel and attendance. Thorough ventilation is provided for. 
and the firm have Hlled many important contracts. Having made 
a careful practical study of all the problems involved the firm Is 
fully prepared to give absolute satisfaction, and both in regard to 
their lines of stoves and ranges and their system of heating, 
they are the representative house in Boston 

HENRY H CLARK & CO.. Printers of School and College Text- 
Books. Educational Scientific and Miscellaneous Books. 
Etc.. No 77 Kilby Street —The advance made in the typo- 
graphic branches is one of the notable features that mark 
this age of progress In which we live. What with Invention, im- 
provements and discovery, a high degree of perfection has been 
reached In the art preservative within a decade or two. Among 
the noteworthy printing establishments of Boston may be named 
the well-equipped concern conducted under the style of Henry H. 
Clark &Co, book and job printers. No 77 Kilby Street, who sustain 
a well earned reputation for excellent work, as well as piomtness 
and reliability in executing orders— none better inthlsclty. They 
occupy two 25x100 foot floors, supplied with ample steam power and 
all the latest Improved machinery, appliances and general ap- 
purtenances to a leading printing house, including three capacious- 
power presses, a first-class outfit of type and kindred devices, while 
ten to a dozen expert hands are employed. Book and general job- 
printingin all its branches is done in the most expeditious and 
superior manner at bottom prices, special attention being given to. 
school and college text books, educational, scientific and niiscel 
laneous books, catalogues, pamphlets and fine commercial printing, 
all work executed here being fully warranted to render satisfac- 
tion: and all orders receive immediate attention. Thisfiouiishing 
business was established about four years ago by Henry H. Clark, 
(deceased) who under the firm name that heads this sketch con 
ducted the same up to spring of 1888, when, owing to his death, 
which occurred at this period, the business passed into control of 
his son E. W Clark, who, as manager for the estate of his father 
has since continued it under the original style with uninterrupted 
success. Mr. Clark, Jr., is agenlleinan of excellent business 
qualities, as well as a young man of energy and several years 
practical experience, and, unless all signs fall, he possesses all the 
necessary qualifications to keep the concern in the position it has 
from the first occupied in its line. 



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ARK FISK, Cigars, No. 14 Central Street, Near Kilby.— 
Whether smoking be wholesome or deleterious is a matter 
upon which there are many diverse opinions, and It Is a 
subject upon which medical men venture to differ; and 
while they ai'e dittering the habit of smoking goes on increasingly 
and the consumption of the f.ivorite "weed" grows apace. If any 
change at all has been noted in the ways of those who apply 
themselves to the smoking habit it is the steady and persistent 
demand that has set in for a higher and purer grade of cigars : and 
to meet this demand satisfactorily is Mr. Mark Fisk's great object 
in life. That he is doing it successfully at his popular store 
No. 14 Central Street, near Kilby, is evidenced by the large and 
increasing patronage which is accorded him. Mr. Fisk started in 
this line of Inisiness in 1882, and conducted it with remarkable 
success until 1885, when sickness compelled him to relinquish it 
for a time. On recovering his health he resumed business at his 
present stand in September, 1888, and he soon drew about him a 
very liberal and substantial, as well as an infiueiitial, patronage. 
The store is very elegant in its apiioiiitments and arrangements. 
and is heavily stocked w'ith a splendid assortment of choice cigars 
of both foreign and dimiestic m.anufacture, and carefully selected 
to meet the requirements of a first-class tr.ide. Mr. Fisk confines 
his operations exclusively to the retail trade in cigars, of which he 
has gained the reputation of being an expert judge. 



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GEORGE R. McFAKLIN, Dealer in China. Glass and Pottery 
of all Countries ; No. 39 Franklin Street.— The importance of 
Boston as a great commercial centre is forcibly ilUistrated 
in every bnanch of trade, and in none more tlian the import 
trade in cliina, glass and pottery. A representative and tlior- 
oughly progressive house engaged therein is that ot Mr. George R. 
McFarlin, located at No. 39 Franklin Street, corner of Hawley. 
The proprietor has been connected with this line of business for a 
period of twenty-eight years, and opened the present house in 
January, 1888. He occupies two floors and a basement, 40x60 feet 
each, giving ample acconniiodation for supplying the most exten- 
sive demand, and conducts the business at both wholesale and 
retail. The trade has been developed to proportions of gratifying 
magnitude and importance, and strictly upon tlie legitimate basis 
of supply and demand. The large practical experience of the pro- 
prietor is supported by sound judgment and close attention to 
detail, so that in the essentials of te.Kture, elegant and symmetri- 
cal designs, beauty of pictorial ornamentation, coupled with rich- 
ness and harmony ot coloring, and artistic effects, the selections 
here displayed are recognized as pre-eininent in the trade. Such 
splendid styles of goods have rarely been imported to tiiis country. 
The attractiveness ot the stock and Its artistic arrangement be- 
speak the taste and systematic methods of the proprietor, and in 
the showrooms can be seen tlie most delicate china sets, decorated 
mantel and table ware, baccarat glass ware, porcelain, cut glass 
and the charming Bohemian glass ware in vast variety; bisque 
statuettes of exquisite beauty, bric-a-brac in bewildering array, 
articles of vertii, and thousands ot ornaments, all displ.iyed in a 
manner befitting the proprietor's distinguished enterprise and 
ample resources. Tlie stock is a criterion of all that is new, ser- 
viceable, beautiful and ornate in the china, glass and pottery 
trade, and the products include every feature of elegance and ex- 
cellence brought from manufactories whose reputation is world- 
wide. Inducements are liere offered to dealers and consumers, in 
both reliability of goods and liberality of terms and prices, which 
challenge comparison and preclude successful competition, wliile 
the house is in a position to guarantee the prompt and perfect ful- 
fillment of all orders, ot whatever magnitude. Mr. McFarlin is a 
native of New Bedford, Mass., and was lornierly manager of the 
bouse of Clark, Adams & Clark, in the same line. He Is eminently 
popular in social, business and trade circles, and is affording the 
American public unexampled opportunities for securing the most 
beautiful wares known to civilization. 



well known, are "carefully made to order." This manufacture 
has grown to large proportions and is a very important and promi- 
nent part of the business. Of the stock ot fine furnishing goods, 
(the largest retail stock In this line in New England), it is only nec- 
essary to say that It Is intended to be complete in all its depart- 
ments and to exhibit tlie best goods of the best manufacturers of 
every nation. All the members of the firm are Bostonlans. 

NF. MCCARTHY & CO., Commission Dealers In Cut 
Flowers, Florists' Supplies, No. 1 Music Hall Place, off 
, Winter Street, also entrance through Music Hah from 
Hamilton Place.— In this city of culture and refinement 
the demand for floral decorations Is naturally large and the busi- 
ness of supplying the requisites In the premises Is proportionately 
extensive and prosperous. Prominent among the well-known and 
popular est.-iblishments in this line ot trade will be found that ot 
Messrs. N. F. McCarthy & Co. commission dealers in cut flowers 
and importers and Jobbers in florists' supplies of every description 
at No. 1 Music Hall Place, off Winter Street. This enterprising 
young Arm composed of Messrs. N. F. McCarthy and W. F. Mollay 
after an extensive experience as employees began business tor 
themselves at No. 9 Park Street in September, 1885. Later they re- 
moved to No. 63 Bromiield Street and Huallv in August last to 
the present site. From its inception tlie business has been char- 
acterized by a substantial and steady growth indicative ot an 
active and able management and the present status Is that of a 
prosperous and representative enterprise in its line. Mr. Mc- 
Carthy represented tlie linn ot \Vm. J. Stewart. No. 1518 Chestnut 
Street, Philadelphia, in the same line tor three years belore lie was 
twenty-one years of age. He conducts auction sales on Wednes- 
day and Saturday during spring and fall, disposing of enoi nums 
quantities ot bedding plants, nursery stock, etc., at very low 
prices, the seleclion being large, varied and choice. The spacious 
aud well arranged premises are fitted up in a manner convenient 
to and supplied with all requisite facilities tor the advantageous 
conduct ot the business. The firm are in daily receipt of large 
consignments ot clioice cut flowers fresh from the suburban green- 
eries and keep constantly on hand a large, comprehensive and 
complete stock of baskets, and, in short, all embraced in tlie gen- 
eral term of florists' supplies. Several experienced assistants are 
employed in the transactions of the extensive and fast increasing 
business and the patronage received represents the most desirable 
city custom. 



HEWINS & HOLLIS. Outfltters, No. 4 Hamilton Place. -For 
more than a third ot a century the name of this Arm has 
been prominently identified with tlie men's outfitting 
trade ot this city, and to-day there is no more popular 
house in the " Hub " in its line than tliat ot Hewins & Hollis, No. 4 
Hamilton Place. Tliey have occupied this handsome and spacious 
store (wliich was planned and built expressly tor them) about five 
years. The business was originally founded in 1843 by the senior 
member of the firm, Mr. C. A. Hewins. Mr. Wm. H. Hollis became 
his associate and partner in 1855, and since their removal to Ham- 
ilton Place, Mr. Frank A. Hewins, the son of the senior member, 
has been admitted to the firm. There is an established stability 
about these old Boston lioiises that is noteworthy and refreshing 
in this age ot changes, and the good Eriglish custom of continuing 
a business by tlie incoming ot tlie younger members of the family 
is the best evidence of continued groivth and prosperity. Mr. 
Hewins Informs us that on the books of the ftrm to-day are the 
names ot customers who have never left them since the beginning 
of the business ; that there are many names of sons and even of 
grandsons of such customers, and In one case, at least, a great 
grandson, his name on tlie order book, making four generations 
who have supplied themselves from this establishment. As the 
firm has numbered among its customers In the last thirty years 
nearly all the piominent men, not only of Boston, but of all New 
England, it now admittedly stands at the head of this branch or 
trade. Their new store has a frontage of forty feet and is admira- 
bly lighted both in front and rear. It is plainly but elegantly 
fitted ill hard wood interior finish, and was planned and adapted 
for tlie strictly first-class line of trade by which they have gained 
their peculiar reputation. In the rear is a large cutting room, and 
dere the flue dress shirts, the superior excellence ot which is so 



JY. BAKER &C0., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Oysters, 
Nortli East cor. F. H. Market, and Nos. 120 and 122 Atlantic 
J Avenue, opp. Richmond Street.— Boston has, from the first 
settlement ot the city, more than two hundred and fifty 
years ago, been the great centre tor all kinds otsea and river food, 
and this distinction the city occupies today. In the oyster branch 
ot the trade, the leading and oldest concern now actively en- 
gaged in it. Is that ot Messrs. .1. Y. Baker & Co., who have two 
busy and prosperous establishments, one of these being located oQ 
the northeast corner of Faneuil Hall Market, and the other at Nos. 
120 and 122 Atlantic Avenue, opposite Itlclimoud Street. Thiscou- 
cern was founded under its pi'esent style as tar back as 1827 by 
the late Mr. J. Y. Baker, Subsequently, he w.as joined in the en- 
terprise by his brothers, Simeon and William S. Baker. The founder 
retired from the business in 1880, and both lie and his brotliers are 
now dead. The business Is still carried on under the oi iginal sty le 
by Marcellus G. Baker (son of Simeon,) and Charles W. Badger, 
who succeeded to the control of the enterprise In 188L Mr. Baker 
is a native ot Wellfleet, Mass., and Mr. Badger was born at Woburn, 
Mass. In the north-east corner of Faneuil Hall Market the firm 
have a sp.icious stand, always stocked with a liberal supply of 
choice, fresh oysters. Their packing house and salesroom on At- 
lantic Avenue is a spacious establishment, and provided with all 
necessary appliances for the handling of the extensive stock car- 
ried, the packing and pickling of oysters for shipping, and the 
piompt hllingotall orders, whether at wholesale or retail. The 
bulk of their supplies are from Virginia waters, and the distributing 
trade of tlie firm extends throughout New England and the Br,tisn 
Provinces, and necessitates the constant employment of a large 
force of hands. This old house is as honorable as it is old, and as 
vigorous and progressive as any in the trade. 



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W HIDDEN, CURTIN & CO., Pallor and Chamber Furni- 
ture, Carpets, Kugs, Etc., Nos. 1-9 Washington Street.— 
A great representative eoneem Is that of Messrs. Whid- 
den, Curtiii & Co., whose enterprise lia.s secured to tlieni 
atrade of enormou.s magnitudein thebettergradesof furniture and 
in tliat incomparable folding bed, the Windsor. The business was 
established about twenty Hve years ago by Messrs. BealftiSi Hooker, 
they were succeeded by Mr T. M.Whiddeii, whoin view of the rapid 
growtli of the trade formed the llrm of T. M. Whidden & Co. The 
firm of Whidden & Curtin followed, and in 1880 was finally suc- 
ceeded by the present copartnership, composed of Messrs. Thomas 
M. Whidden, John Curtiii and A. H. Seaver. The premises occu- 
pied aie unusually extensive, comprising two entire buildings, of 
five stories and basement, Nos. 1-9 Washington Street, frontiirg on 
Friend Street from Nos. 95 to 107, and on Haymarlcet Square 
at Nos. 7 and 8. The warerooms are very handsomely furnished, 
spacious and finely lighted, while the immense stock is dis- 
played to admirable advaiit.age, and is the admiration of the 
throngs of customers, who daily visit the store. Here are carried 
full lines of parlor and chamber furniture in the new styles of artis- 
tic worliinanship and elaborate linish. Here are parlor sets in 
mahogany, walnut, oak, etc., upholstered in the richest manner, 
and quoted at prices tliat render them tlie best value in town. The 
Arm are also leaders in chamber sets, dining room and library 
furniture and are the exclusive dealers in the celebrated Windsor 
folding bed which is the only perfect bed of the kind. Its 
utility is apparent. It covers all the good features of other 
beds and has none of their defects, but instead many marked 
advantages and improvements. It is got up in a variety 
of styles adapted to the pockets of all, and is emphatically 
the folding bed of the age. As only three firms handle this 
bed, the public should call at Messrs. Whidden, Curtin & Co.'s 
when in search of one and thus make sure of seeing it. The 
firm also have a very large carpet department, where are carried 
full lines of the best makes of Axminsters, Moquettes, Wiltons, 
Brussels, Ingrain, etc., likewise rugs, mattings and oil cloth. This 
is headquarters for the furnishings of liouses of a quality and at 
prices, impossible of duplication elsewhere. They not only num- 
ber among their customers le.ading citizens of Boston and New 
England, but also do a trade of importance in such far oft points as 
Florida and California. Mr. Whidden was born, in Boston, Mr. 
Curtin in Beverly, and Mr. Seaver in Worcester. 

EDMUND W. MILLER, Manufacturer of Miller's Reform Boot, 
No. I>i4 Hamilton Place.— Miller's reform boot is deserving 
of special notice in this review, being made on anatomical 
principles and needs no breaking in. Tlie manufacturer, Mr. 
Edmund W. Miller, occupies spacious salesrooms at No. 5K Ham- 
ilton Place, with a factory on South Grand Stieet, and is in a posi- 
tion to conduct the enterprise under the most favorable conditions 
for success. The business was originally established in 1870 by Mr. 
Robert A. Miller, who died in 1884, and w.is succeeded by Ins son, 
the present proprietor. The reform boot, in the production of 
which this house is so widely noted, is a combination of perfect 
ease and comfort, and meets the long looked for want, and is 
the annihilator of corns, bunions, ingrowing nails, and the various 
feet distortions which are the woes of mankind. It copies nature, 
the great artist, so nearly that miles of walking, or hours of stand- 
ing, instead of tiring and agonizing the whole body, finds it un- 
affected by weariness after exertion of any kind. The combina- 
tions utilized by manufacturer and inventor of this boot tend to 
place the foot in just the same position as It a plaster of Paris cast 
w,as taken of a natural foot. Satisfaction is guaranteed in all 
cases. The work is all hand-made and of the best and finest im- 
ported stock. No house in the country has made so systematic and 
successful a study of this subject, or is so well prepared to meet 
promptly the various needs of humanity in this important line. 
The large and still increasing patronage of this house, extending 
not only to .all parts of the United States, but throughout Europe 
and numerous foreign countries, is due not only to the peculiar 
merits of the goods produced, but also to the honorable spirit of 
equity and fair dealing that pervades the man.agement, and which 
Is a surety that the house will continue to prosper and be a 
potent instrumentality in the growth and Importance of this city 
as a great purchasing centre. Mr. Miller is well known and highly 



respected in this, his native city, and was trained to the business 
in which he is now so successfully engaged from his youth up; is 
enterprising, reliable and progressive in all his business methods, 
and a young man of high soci.il and commercial standing. 

AR. MITCHELL & CO., Cigars and Tobacco, Manufacturers 
and Mannfaeturers- Agents, Nos. :« to 37 Broad Street 
, and No. 132 Water Street —One of the great representa- 
tive houses devoted to the trade in cigars and tobaccos 
throughout New England, is that of Messrs. A, R. Mitchell iSCo.. 
■with salesrooms and offices at Nos 33 to 37 Broad Street, and No. 
132 Water Street. The business was founded about twenty-tive 
years ago by Mr. A. R. Mitchell, who is a leading authority in this 
brancli of trade. In 188'2, Mr. J. L. Richards came into copartner- 
ship under the existing name and style, and the house has made 
rapid and substantial progress. Tliey are bolh manufacturers of 
fine cigars, and also New England agents for the most famous 
brands of tobaccos, conceded by all who understand the trade or 
consume the weed, such tor instance as D. H. McAIpln & Cos. 
tobaccos, N Y.; Force Tob.acco Co., Louisville. Ky. ; Weyman. 
Bros., Copenhagen Snuff, Pittsburgh, Pa. : Kenuey Bros. Tobacco 
Co's. cigarettes, and Blackwells Genuine Bull Durham Tobacco. 
These are grades and brands which have no equal, and ever main 
tain the same high standard of excellence. The tirm have de- 
veloped atrade of enormous magnitude in their smokingand chew- 
ing tobaccos, and are annually enlarging their sales. They are also 
manufacturers of fine cigars, employing only skilled hands, and tho 
very choicest of imported and domestic leaf tobaccos. Their goods 
ever command the best class of trade and are in ever increasing 
consumption. Messrs. A. R. Mitchell & Co., sell to the leading job- 
bers and dealers of Boston and New England. Mr. Mitchell was 
born in Cummington, Mass., and has all his active life been in 
business here. He is universally respected for his sound judgment, 
and integrity, and is president of the West Newton Savings Bank, 
and vice president of West Newton National Bank. Mr. Richards 
was born in Springfield, M.ass., and h.as been with the house twelve 
years, evincing marked energy and ability. His acquaintance in 
the trade like that of Mr. .Mitchell, is extensive and influential, and 
we know of no house so thoroughly representative of the New Eng- 
land tobacco trade. 

SECURITY INVESTMENT COMPANY, Thomas M. Babson, 
President; Francis I. Meston, Secretary; Western Office, 
Y.ankton, Dakota; Eastern Office, No. 17 Milk Street, Post 
Building.— The judicious and absolutely safe investment of 
capital is one of vital importance not only to capitalists, but also 
men of moderate means. In all the v.ast array of openings tor the 
use of surplus funds there is not one so sure, legitimate and remu- 
nerative, as the loaning of money on first mortgage security of 
productive western farms. In this connection, special reference is 
made in this commercial review to the representative and reliable 
Security Investment Company, who.se eastern office in Boston is 
located in the Post Building, No. 17 Milk Street. The company's 
western office under the able .and careful management of Mr. E. 
T. White, is in the first National Bank Building, Yankton, Dakota. 
The Security Investment Company was duly incorporated in 1886, 
with a paid-up capitalof 8100,000, and is under the supervision of the 
Savings Bank Commissioners of Connecticut. In fact it is owned 
and controlled by a number of representative business men and 
capitalists of New England. The company confines its loans on 
first mortgage to fertile farms in Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and 
Texas. The mortgages are made under the supervision of the 
western manager. Mr. E. T. White, who has resided in the west for 
sixteen years, engaged in loaning eastern money with excellent 
judgment and success. The company deals in debenture bonds, 
farm mortgages and first-class western securities. Its seven per 
cent guaranteed gold real estate first mortgages .are unrivalled 
for security. The interest on tlie.se loans is payable Eemi-anniially 
at the office of the American Loan and Trust Company, Boston, or 
c;in be collected through local banks free of expense. The Security 
Investment Company to meet the wants of men of very moderate 
means has latterly issued six per cent, specially secured ten year 
gold debenture bonds in aniouiits of S.'iO and ujiw.ards, the Ameri- 
can Loan and Trust Company of Boston, being the trustee. Tlicsa 
securities are confidently recommended to the most conservative. 



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WM. R. SCHAEFER & SON. Manur.acturers, Agents, Impor- 
ters and De.alers ill Fire Anns, Sporting Goods, and 
Fisliiiig Tacltle, at Wholesale and Ketail, No 61 Elm 
Street.— The le.-iding headquarters in this city for 
fire-arms, sporting goods and lishing tackle, at both wholesale and 
retail, is the splendid establishment ot Messrs. Win. K. Rcliaefer & 
Son, located at 61 Elm Street, conierof Dock Square. The business 
of tills house was founded in 1853 by Mr. Win. R. Scliaefer, the 
present flnii being organized in 1880 by the admi-ssion of Mr. J. F. 
R. Schaefer to partnersliip. The business iiieuii.ses comprises three 
floors 25x100 feet each, giving ample accommodations for handling 
and storing the immense and valuable stock, and for the syste- 
matic aud successful prosecution of tlie bu.siness in all ts depart- 
ments. The firm are widely prominent both .as manufacturers 
importers, dealers and manufacturers' agents in the above named 
goods, and also make a leading specialty of line gun repairing and 
engr.aving. They do not aim to transact a claptrap business, 
advertising goods with fancy brands and fraudulent and mislead- 
ing descriptions, but to do a square business, buying tlieir goods 
in very large qu.antities and at tlie lowest cash prices, and giving 
their customers tiie benefit of tlieir large experience and wide 
connections in the tr.ade. Tiiis firm are given a deserved prestige 
in the triide as agents for the sale of goods mauTitiictured by Chas. 
D.ily, breech leading hammer and hamnierless shot guns, the 
National, Colts, L. C. Smith, Lefever, Ithaca, and Tieper hammer 
and hammerless breech loading sliot guns, the F. Wessons. 
Marlins, Ball.ards, and Winchester repeating and single shot 
rifles, the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, Winchester Repeat 
ing Arms Company, United States Cartridge Company, ainmuni. 
tioiis, hunting boots .and shoes, coats, vesis, hats and sportsmen- 
wearing apparel, imported Finl.and leather Jackets, Smith & 
Wesson, Marlin, Standard, Merwiii & Hiilbert, Stevens and F. Wes- 
son target and pocket revolvers, Spratt's Eiiglisii Dog Food, Medi- 
cines, chains, leaders and whips for dogs. Belchers' automatic rapid 
shell loaders, American, Hazard, Duponts, and Oriental Mills gun 
powders Blue Rock Pigeons and traps, Llgowsky clay birds and 
traps. They Imported number of thousands guns the p.tst year to 
meet the demands of their business, and in every department make 
a specialty of liandling the finest goods manufactured either in 
America or Europe. Tliey guaiiintee every article as represented, 
md liave unsurpassed facilities for executing all orders with 
promptness .and dispatch. Their experience in the gun manufac- 
turing of the finest guns warrants every sportsman that their new 
improved h.ammerless and hammer breech In.ading sliot guns in 
point of excellence of material, mechanism, simplicity and shoot- 
ing qu.alities, are not to be excelled; their custom m.ide gnus are 
made by the most expert and experienced workmen that this 
firm are able to obtain in Europe. Their tr.ade extends to all parts 
of New England, to the west and south, and inducements are con- 
stantly offered to the trade, as regards terms and prices, which 
are safe from successful competition. The senior partner w.as born 
In Germany and came to this city forty years ago, after having 
learned his trade as a gun-maker in Germany, beginning at tlie 
young age of thirteen years. The son Is a native of Cambridge, 
Mass., and combines his energy and talent with the ripe expe- 
rience of his father, having worked at the bench to obtain a thor- 
ough knowledge of fire-arms in their various branches, beginning 
when twelve years ot age, hence they form a firm of wide popu- 
larity, commanding influence and solid wortli. 

BNOYES, Mortgages. Room 32, No. 31 Milk Street.— There is 
no flnancial interest of this great and important business 
J centre than that of real estate, and the present condition 
of the stock market and other forms of investment has 
given stronger assurances than ever of the reliability and safety 
In placing surplus resources in improved or unimproved real 
estate, in well selected localities. This line of business has en- 
listed the services of many ot the most responsible and enterpris- 
ing of Boston's business men, and prominent among the number is 
Mr. B. Noyes, whose office is so centrally located at No. 31 Milk 
Street, (Room 32.) Mr. B. Noyes is a Bostonian by birth, and 
brings to bear in his business a long and intimate knowledge of 
the v.aluesot real estate throughout the different sections of the city 
and Its environs, and a thorough familiarity with all legal m.atters 
pertaining to transactions in th.at line of business. Aitiiongh hav- 



ing founded his establishment in this line on his own account, hav- 
ing commenced late in iS88, lielias been the recipient of a very lib- 
eral and permanent clientage, which includes many of our leading 
capitalists and investors, and in f.act the patron.age he now enjoys 
is of such acliaracter in Influence and magnitude, that it surpasses 
many older houses in tlie same line of industry. Mr. Noyes occu- 
pies a very neat and tastefully arranged oflice, which is easy ot 
access, and is fitted up in a first-class manner, and supplied with 
every facility for the proper transaction of business. He is pre- 
pared to execute all commissions in the real estate trade, such as 
buying, selling, leasing and exch.anging, collecting rents, manag- 
ing estates, paying taxes, effecting judicious repairs and keeping 
the same upto the highest point of productive elflciency, also ap- 
praising and v.aluing, searching titles, conveyancing, etc. Mr. 
Noyes makes .a siieeialty of lending money on bond and mortgage, 
and forecloses mortgages when directed by clients in the most 
elHcieiit manner, and in this p.artlcular department of his business 
he has acquired a very enviable and noteworthy repiit.ation. In 
consequence of his thorough knowledge of all Its details and legal 
conditions existing between mortgagee and mortgagor. Assign- 
ments and transfers of liens, mortgages and other legal re.al 
est.ate transactions receive prompt care and attention and In fact 
all matters pertaining to the entire business are transacted In 
their entirety, and without vex.atious annoyance to patrons. 

H LOCKE. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Beef. Nos.42and 
44 Faneuil Hall Market. Among the oldest merchants 
J still successtiilly conducting a vigorous and extensive 
tr.ade in Faneuil Hall Market. Mr. H. Locke, the oceii- 
p.ant of St.alls Nos. 42 and 44, merits special menticn in this work. 
Forty long years mark the business career of this gentleman in 
this time-honored market, and from first to last he has sustained 
a reputation as a straightforward and vigilant business man of Ihe 
highest character. He started business alone here in 1S48. and for 
about seven years. in tlie '60's, heh.ad a partner, the style of llie firm 
during this period being Locke & Woodbridge. Since the retirement 
of Mr. Woodbridge, Mr. Locke has managed the business .alone, and 
it has grown and prospered under his experienced direction. His 
st.alls are neatly arr.anged and of fine dimensions, and are fitted 
up in a very .attr.active manner aud provided witli all modern ap- 
pliiinces, including the latest and best improved refrigerators for 
the preservation of perishable articles during liot weather. Mr. 
Locke spares no expense nor trouble to provide the choicest of every 
tiling, and his f.acllities for doing this are not surpassed by those 
of any competitor. He in,akes a specialty of the very primest and 
choicest beef, and, carrying at all times a very large stock, he is 
enabled to fill orders with the utmost promptitude, both at whole- 
sale and retail. Four assistants and a delivery wagon are kept 
constantly busy, and a large city patronage Is enjoyed. Mr. Locke 
w.as born in Arlington, Mass., and is to-day one of tlie best known 
and most deservedly popular business men of Boston. 

ESSEX BOOT and SHOE CO , L. F. Keene, Proprietor, No. 2* 
Essex Street.— The Essex Boot and Shoe Co., No. 28 Essex 
Street, is a new acquisition to the commercial industries of 
Boston and its operations are being prosecuted with una- 
bated vigor by Mr. Leslie F. Keene, the proprietor, who Is a young 
man of business experience and practical to his special line of 
trade, having had fifteen years experience In manufacturing. 
Tlie store, which is 30x60 feet in area is very neatly and 
attr.actively fitted up and very handsome in its fittings and 
appointments, and is well stocked with a new, full and com- 
plete assortment ot everytliing pertaining to the boot and shoe 
trade, including fine and medium grade boots, shoes and gaiters 
for men, youths, and boys, and an almost endless variety of every- 
thing desirable and seasonable for ladies, misses and children, to- 
gether witli rubbers and slippers of every description. The assort- 
ment has been selected with care and .as Mr. Keene possesses .all 
the facilities enjoyed by his older competitors, he is in every re- 
spect c.ap,able of furnishing the best cl.ass of goods of the highest 
standard quality, and make tlie prices as advant.ageous to custo- 
mers .as any kindred establishment in the city. Boots and shoes 
are also ni.adc to measure of the best m.aterial and every attenfi,on 
is given to perfection of fit and ease and coinfoit to the wearer. 
Mr. Keene is a native of Maine. 



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CHARLES A. BRACKETT, Paper, Store ami Shoe Boxes, No. 98 
Hanover Street.— For the best made paper boxes in New 
Eiighand, the trade has gone to Mr. Charles A. Brackett, of 
No. 98 Hanover Street. He .started in business here about 
twenty years ago, and early created a widespread demand for his 
product. He has had to repeatedly enlarge his facilities and now 
occupies the four upper floors of No. 98 Hanover Street 40x80 feet 
in dimensions, and admirably adapted for the purposes of manu- 
facturing. He here employs an average force of eighty -Ave 
hands in the manufacture of all descriptions of paper, store and 
shoe boxes of a quality nowhere else excelled and rarely dupli- 
cated. He exercises close personal supervision, while he brings to 
bear the widest range of practical experience coupled with an in- 
timate knowledge of the wants of Boston's fine trade. Plush 
boxes are a specialty, and he controls the patronage of a large 



age, was for twenty years, book-keeper of the Equitable Safety 
Insurance Company, and Mr. Clark, who is sixty-seven years old, 
was for a like period secretary of the same company. They 
formed their partnership in 1862 and are among the best known 
and popular fire and marine insurance brokers and agents in the 
city. They are members of the Brokers' Association, and repre- 
sent the wealthiest and most responsible companies m the world. 
Their patronage is extensive and influential, and they are prompt 
and reliable. Both gentlemen are natives of Boston. 

EA. SHAW, Cotton Buyer, No. 48 Congress Street, Room 13 
—Next to the tr.ide in cereals, the cotton interests of the 
I United States constitute the most important commercial 
factor. The transactions in this great staple commodity 
here in Boston alone in the course of a year for domestic consump- 




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section of the fancy goods trade. Here is headquarters for jewel 
and odor caskets of the most elegant and richly decorative char- 
acter ; also gilt, card-board, fancy leather and all other kinds for 
«very possible use: mailing tubes are made to order in any size or 
length, this being the only place in the city where they are made 
by machinery. Mr Bracket principally does a wholesale trade, 
and has extended his connections all over New England. He is a 
business man of sterling integrity, and has ever maintained the 
confidence and respect of leading flnancial and commercial cir- 
cles. His establishment is a credit to his enterprise, ability and 
energy, and a valued factor in promoting the welfare and prosper- 
ity of the city of Boston. 

LORING & CLARK, Insurance Agents, No.l9Excliange Place.— 
No plan or system has ever yet been devised which has 
proved such an efficient hand maid in the development of 
the business interests of this country as Insuiiince against 
losses by fire, and its advantages and usefulness was never more 
powerfully demonstrated than on the occasion of the vast and 
memorable conflagrations in Boston and Chicago, when street 
after street of buildings was reduced to ashes and insurance 
companies were called upon to pay out hundreds of millions of 
dollars to the sufferers. The insurance agent fills an important 
position between the companies and the policy holders he repre- 
sents. Usually he represents a number of companies of good 
standing, and takes the contract for placing a line of insurance 
with such companies as he knows to be substantial and responsi- 
ble, and saves his client much trouble and expense, and often 
much anxiety. The merchant or property owner needs but to be 
assured of the honesty and experience of the agent he employs 
and may then rest satisfied that his interests will be faithfully 
attended to, for the agent knows that if he is to be successful his 
reputation must be preserved unsullied. There are few agents 
who liave had more practical experience in insurance matters 
tlian Messrs. John J. Loring and John Theodore Clark, the mem- 
bers of the firm of Loring & Clark, insurance agents and brokers 
of No. 19 ExcliaiiRe Place. The former who is seventy-two years of 



tion aggregate v.ast proportions. Indeed one of the extensive 
branches of business in this city is that devoted to llie buying ol 
this indispensable product for the New England cotton fabric manu- 
facturers. Among the best known cotton buyers in the city may be 
mentioned the name of E. A. Shaw, whose office is located at No. 
48 Congress Street, Room 12. Mr. Shaw, who is a man in the prime 
of life, and a native of Massachusetts, is a gentleman of entire 
probity in his dealings, as well as energy, sagacity and thorough 
knowledge of the wants of the trade. He has been engaged in this 
line since 1862— in the south twelve years, and in Boston six years 
—and is widely and favorably known in the trade. Mr. Shaw buys 
direct from the cotton growers of the Southern states for New Eng- 
land manufacturers on commission, having correspondents in the 
principal cotton centres of the south, and does a large and active 
business. 

WM. CUSHING & CO., Real Estate and Mortgages, No. 15 
Congress Street —Few among the many responsible 
Boston real estate brokers, have been more fortunate in 
establishing a reputatiim for reliability and probity in 
their transactions, than that of Win. Cushing & Co They con- 
duct a general real estate business, buying, selling and exchang- 
ing city and country property of every description on commission 
exclusively and also negotiate mortgages and loans. Rents are 
collected likewise, and estates taken in entire charge and jndi 
cionsly managed ; special attention being given to the handling of 
suburban realty, both improved and unimproved, while invest- 
ments are desirably placed also, and insurance effected in staunch 
fire companies at lowest rates compatible with absolute security. 
This well and favorably known real estate and insurance agency, 
was originally established in 1873, by Duncan ACo., who conducted 
the business up to 1885. when tliey were succeeded by the present 
senior member, who continued it alone for about two years, when 
he associated with him in paitnership, F. L. Whitney. Messrs. 
Cushing and Wliitney are both men of unquestionable integrity in 
their dealings and business relations, as well as of sagacity and 
experience in this line. 



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DAMRELL & UPHAM, Old Corner Bookstore, Standard and 
Miscellaneous Books, Etc., No. 283 Wasliingtou Street.— This 
is one of Boston's oldest landmarks and is surrounded with 
many pleasant historic associations. Willi one exception, it 
is the oldest buildiui; in the city. It was erected in 1712 by Thomas 
Crease, and previously its site was occupied by a dwelling in which 
Ann Hutchinson held her famous seances. Thomas Crease used the 
building as a store and dwelling, and eventually it was occupied 
as offices and again as a drug store. The last apothecary wlio was 
the tenant was Dr. Samuel Clarke, f.ither ot the Rev. James Free- 
man Clarke, who was born here. Dr. Clarke in 1828 was succeeded 
in the tenancy by Carter & Hendee, who first utilized the front 
part of the building as a book store, for which purpose it has ever 
since been devoted. The book business has been successively 
carried on by Carter & Hendee, Allen & Ticknor, William D. Tick- 
nor & Co., Ticknor & Fields. E. P. Dutton & Co., A. Williams & Co 
and Cupples, Upham & Co. Eventu.ally in 1886 Messrs. Charles L. 
Damrell and Henry M. Upham assumed the management. This 
famous Old Corner Bookstore is one of the most popular resorts in 
Boston, the literary men of the city making it their chief rendez- 
vous. Here men celebrated in literature in their day— Lowell, 
Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Whittier, Emerson and others 
noted in American letters— weie accustomed to gather for the in- 
terchange of good fellowship and art. Its church department for 
works of devotion, bibles, prayer books, liyinnals, etc., is now a 
very popular shopping place for ladies. Here is a department for 
medical, scientific and agricultural works; others for maps, globes 
and guide books, theological literature, illustrated works, spoi-ting 
and yachting, juvenile literature, English books. American mis- 
cellaneous books, etc. There aie also sjiecial counters for news- 
papers, journals, periodicals and novels. The establishment is 
never without the latest new thing in Eng ish. French, German 
or American literature. Messrs. Damrell & Upham conduct an 
extensive importing business, and pay special attention to supply- 
ing town and city libraries, clubs, etc. The firm have an estab- 
lishment in London, England, at No. 7 Stationers' Hall Court, Lud- 
gate Hill, through which they receive all the latest English publi- 
cation? with great regularity. Mr. Charles L. Damrell is a native 
of Portsmouth, N. H., while Mr. Henry M. Upliani was born in Nan- 
tucket, Mass. 

HILTON & WOODWARD, Dealers in Mutton. Lamb, Veal, and 
Liinibs' Tongues, Nos. 5 and 7 Faneuil Hall Market.— The 
meat trade of Bostim is one of the largest and most im- 
portant industries carried on, and has many able and etll- 
cient exponents, among whom are Messrs Hilton & Woodward, 
the occupants of stalls Nos. 5 and 7 Faneuil Hall Market, who 
have gained deserved prominence and great success. The busi- 
ness of tills enterprising Hrin was inaugurated some twenty-seven 
years ago by Mr. J. F.Hilton, and diligence, enterprise liberal and 
honorable methods quickly brought him substantial and intluen- 
ential custom. Year by year lie experienced an increase of trade 
until it assumed dimensions of a large and prosperous character, 
requiring in its conduct the closest attention and unremitting en- 
ergies. Then it was, some eleven years ago, that he admitted into 
partnership Mr. S. M. Woodward, a pushing, energetic man of 
business, who had a practical experience of fifteen years as clerk 
and afterwards partner with Hiscock & Co. The stall is a com 
iiiodioiis one, is neatly and tastefully fitted up, and is kept con- 
stantly in a clean, inviting condition, while tlie stock Is at all 
times large, fresh and choice Tlie stock embraces mutton, lamb, 
veal and lambs' tongues, newly slaughtered, and is carried in suftl- 
cient quantities to permit of the prompt filling of all orders, large 
and small. The transactions are of both a wholesale and retail 
character, and tlit distributing trade of the firm reaches to all sec- 
tions of the New England States. The stall is connected by tele- 
phone, the call being 2149, and four assistants and a delivery wagon 
are kept busy in filling orders. Mi'. Hilton is a native of Maine, 
and Mr Woodward was born in Massachusetts. Botli gentlemen 
are well known both in the city and out of it, and are respected 
aud esteemed by all with wlioir. they have had dealings. 

EPPLER & ADAMS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY. Andrew 
Eppler, Jr., President, G. W. Statham, Treasurer, No. 112 
South Street.— The construction of machines for sewing 



shoes hai for years occupied the attention of inventors and 
others and a number of Ingeniously designed machines has been 
the result, but it could not be .said that perfection liad been 
reached until the introduction of the Eppler & Adams turn shoe 
.sewing machine which is the simplest and most rapid curved 
needle sewing machine ever invented, and will sew all kinds of 
turn boots and shoes equal to the best hand work. These machines 
are manufactured by the Eppler & Adams Sewing Machine Com- 
pany, and are leased to boot and .shoe manufacturers upon satis- 
factory terms. They are in use in many of 'he leading factories 
throughout New England and other parts of the country and the 
work turned out is not surpassed, the goods made on these ma- 
chines we.aring well and giving the best satisfaction to the trade 
and t'.ie public. The operations of the company are widespread 
and extensive and for manufacturing purposes a three-story build- 
ing liaving dimensions of 30x72 feet, is occupied at No. 112 South 
Street. 11 is well equipped throughout and a force ot skilUd prac- 
tical machinists are kept constantly engaged. These machines 
have-only been on the market three years, and in that time have 
been introduced in all parts of the country, and are fast super 
seding all others, and combine advantages of a superior character 
for doing the neatest, best and most substantial work. Mr An- 
drew Eppler, Jr., the president of the coin|)any, is from the state 
of New Jersey. He has long been a resident of Boston, and con- 
spicuous in the manuf.icture of boot and shoe-sewing machines. 
Mr. G. W. Statham, the treasurer, is a native of England. He has 
been in Boston many years, and was formerly with the Goodyear 
& McKay Sewing Machine Company. 

FRED. C. NEWHALL. Manufacturer, Wholesale and Retail 
Dealer in Wood Easels, Folding and Eire Screens, Bamboo 
Chairs and Divans, also, Wire Door and Window Screens, 
Bamboo Work of all Kinds a Specialty, Factory and Office, 
Nos. 257, 259 and 261 Causeway Street.— Amoug the thriving indus- 
trial enterprises that have sprung up of lutein this part of the city, 
there are few more wortliy of notice in this review than that of 
Fred C. Newhall, manufacturer of easels, folding and Are screens, 
both wood and bamboo, also bamboo chairs and divans, and ordered 
work of all kinds, a specialty both wholesale and retail, whose 
office and well equiiiped factory are located at Nos. 257,259 and 261 
Causeway Street. The work turned out here is of a very superior 
character, the productions being aiticles of exceptional merit ; and 
as a consequence they are in steady and growing demand in the 
trade throughout the New England States and also the British 
Provinces, with some in New York State likewise. They are not, 
in fact, surp.issed, if equalled, by any similar articles produced in 
Boston, and of their superiority no more unfailing criterion need 
be offered than the enduring hold they have taken on popular favor 
everywhere. This prosperous business was established something 
over t«o years ago, on Beverly Street, but on account of increase 
ot business, was compelled to move to the coiiimodious quarters 
now occupied at the period menlioned. Tiie factory occupies a 
60x80 toot ground floor, and is supplied with ample steam power and 
all necessary machinery and facilities, while eight or more expert 
workmen on an average, are employed. Besides wood easels, fold- 
ing and fire screens, in handsome designs and exquisite workman- 
ship, Mr. Newhall manufacture's also wire door and window screens, 
wliile he makes a leading specialty of bamboo work. 

SAMUEL B. DEAN, Cut Soles and Leather, Nos. 70 and 72 
South Street.— A reputable house in the leather trade of 
Boston is that of Samuel B. Dean, Nos. 70 and 72 South 
street. Mr. Dean has been identihed with the business for 
the past fifteen years and was for live years, from 1883 to 1888, 
the senior member of the firm of Dean, Palen & Co. On its dis- 
solution, January 1, 1888, he succeeded to the sole control and 
extended its operations in an energetic way. Mr. Dean oocupies 
commodious premises 30x80 feet In dimensions, and carries a large 
stock of cut soles, having trade connections all over the city a,s 
well as througlKUit New England. His establishment is conducted 
on the strictest business principles and has the benefit ot his con- 
stant supervision hi every detail. Mr. Dean is noted for dealing 
only in the finest quality ot leather of which he is an excellent 
judge. He is a resident of Boston aud has a llrst-class reputation 
in commercial circles liere. 



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JAMES E. WAIjL, Importer and Manufacturer of Bamboo Fur- 
niture, Bamboo Easels, Fire Screens, Folding Screens, Odd 
Clialrs, (Jurtani Poles. Etc,,No.73CornIiiil.— The most widely 
known and siiceesstul importer and manufactuier of bam 
boo furniture, bamboo c:isels, fire screens, curtain poles, etc., is 
Mr. .lames E, Wall, whose trade Is of a wholesale cliaiaelerprinei 
pally, and is large and flourishing, extends all over the United 
States and Mexico. Mr. Wall, who Is a gentleman of .about thirty- 
six years old, and a native of this ciiy, is a man of unmistakable 
energy and thorough practical skill In his line, with a complete 




knowledge of the business in its every feature and detail. He es- 
tablished himself In business In 1R7S. Mr. Wall occupies ample and 
well equipped quarters as factory and salesroom at No 73 Cornhill, 
having in service steam power and the latest improved machinery, 
while h.alf a dozen or so expert hands are employed. A full and 
fine assortment is constantly kept in stock. Including fine bamboo 
furniture of unique designs and exquisite workmanship, elegant 
bamboo easels, handsome fire screens, folding screens, odd chairs, 
curtain poles, etc Mr. Wall imports India, Chinese and .Kapanese 
bamboo, while estnnates for finishing rooms and stores in bamboo 
are promptly furnished upon application 

H-C. HASTINGS, Bookseller and Publisher, Scriptural 
Tract Kepository, No. 49 Cornhill —The old establislied 
J and representative establishment of Mr. H. C. Hastings 
bookseller and publisher, was founded in 1862, since 
which period he Ims built up an extensive, patronage in all sec- 
tions of the United States and Canada and also .abroad. He oc- 
cupies a spacious five-story building, which is fully equipped with 
every appliances and facility for the bnsines,s. The retail depart- 
ment is on the second fioor. the wholesale on the third and the 
composing and printing rooms on the fifth floor. Mr. Hastings 
keeps constantly in stock a superior .o-ssortment of bibles (400 
varieties) pr.ayer and hymn books, etc.. and wa-s one of tlie first 
importers of English Reference Bibles In the United States. He is 
likewise an able writer and well known ])ublic si)eaker. and deliv- 
ered from 200 to 300 .addresses a year. In a six months' tour 
through Gieat Britain in 1R87. Mr Hastings .addressed crowded 
meetings, etc.. 230 times. He Is the popular publisher .and editor 
of "The Christian' and "The Little Christian," the "Anti Infidel 
Library." and numbers of able and admir.ably written tr.acts and 
pamphlets Mr. Hastings is also editor of a very useful and valu- 
able i>amphlet entitled "A few cold facts concerning preaching 
on Boston Common, presented at .a public hearing in Ihe City Hall, 
before a committee of Ihe city council, on the petition to repeal 
the city ordinance prohibiting the nnlh^eused preaching of the 
Gospel on the public giounds of the city of Boston. In this 
pamphlet Mr. Hastings ably ch.astlses the members of the city 



government, which t.axes people to pay for Sunday jig pl.aylug on 
Boston Common contrary to the laws of the conunouwealLh, and 
fines and imprisons ministei's and others for reading the Bible in 
the sauie place, and worshipping God in accordance with the 
state constitution and bill of rights All Mr. Il.astiugs' publica- 
tions are forwarded post paid to any address in the United States 
and Canada, on receipt of price, 

GL. POND & CO., Real Estate Brokers, No. 330 Wasliington 
Street.— The secure market offered to the public by the 
I real estate of Boston and Jts vicinity, both for speculative 
and investment purposes, has been duly appreciated, and 
both buyers and sellers realize that their investments wlien Judi- 
ciously placed are absolutely secure. To certainly attain the 
greatest measure of security and tlie best results, the services 
of experienced brokers are always necessary, and prominent 
among their number in Boston is the firm of Messis. G. L. Poud & 
Co., No. 330 Washington Street. Mr. G. I-,. Pond has been estab- 
lished In the real est.ate business for the last live years. He brings 
to bear on his business great practical experience, coupled with an 
Intimate personal knowledge of the advantages of the residential 
and business sections of Boston and its suburbs. Mr. Pond con- 
ducts a getieral realty business, buying and selling houses, stores, 
lots and land in the city and elsewhere, phacing loans, negotiating 
mortgages, arranging transfers, collecting rents, etc. His keen 
appreciation of values, present and prospective, together with a 
large acquaintance with business meu, renders his services pecu- 
liarly valuable to parties dealing in realties. He is agent In 
Boston for a general line of patent novelties .and supplies of all 
kinds for canvassing agents, He is also connected with the Pond 
Rubber Company, who are manufacturers of and dealers in Ladies' 
and gents' rubber clothing and miscelhaneous rubber goods of all 
dcfcriptions. Mr. E. L. Pond, the manager, is the son of Mr. G. 
L. Pond, and has charge of the business. The company's goods 
are sold entirely through canvassing agents, who take orders to be 
ni.ade to measure, and all their goods are warranted. Mr. Poud is 
a niitive of Franklin, Mass , and was for thirty-five years in the 
wliolesale shoe tr.ade. 

CODMAN & HALL, Importers, No 104 Water Street.— Promi- 
nent among those who have contributed to the material 
progress of theeity'scoinmerce, is that of the well-known and 
reliable house of Messrs. Codman & Hall, formerly of No. 
12.5 Milk Street, who are largely engaged in importing drugs, es- 
sential oils, chemicals and Mediterr.anean pioducts of all kinds. 
This house was founded in 1881, by Mr. WilllaiuC. Codman, Jr., and 
Mr Henry G. Hall, and since that period the concern has always 
enjoyed a constantly increasing trade. In 1884, Mr Arthur E Bull 
became a member of the firm, who occupy roomy, handsomely ap- 
pointed premises and possess every requisite facility for tlie suc- 
cessful prosecution of their business. The firm make a specialty ot 
handling only the purest.and most reliable goods, and their trade 
now extends Ihroughout all parts of the east and west. They sell 
directly to jobbers, to whom they are in a position to offer ex- 
ceptionally advantageous terms. All the members of the firm are 
pushing, enterprising young business men, and, in addition tobeing 
direct importers, they sell largely on commission. 

PARKINSON & BURR, Bankers and Brokers, No. 35 Congress 
Street —The financial firms of Boston are justly recognized 
as being as staple and reli.able as tliose of any city in the 
United States, among them being that ot Messrs Parkinson 
& Burr, whose offices are situated at No. 35 Congres.s Street. This 
business w.as established in 1802 by Fi-ank Hodgkinson &Co., who 
were succeeded in 1880 by Peters & Parkinson. Eventually, in 
1885. the present firm was organized, the copartners being Messrs. 
.lohn Parkinson and I T, Burr , Jr. In .lanuary. 1388, Mr. J. .M 
Goodale, who had been eng.aged with this house for tlie Last 
twenty three years, became a member of the firm. Messrs. Park- 
inson & Burr deal in all kinds of stocks, bonds and government 
securities, and also buy and sell stocks and bonds on commission. 
The firm's correspondents in New York are Messrs. H. L. Horton 
& Co and Ed. Sweet & Co., and the offices are connected by pri- 
vate wire with New York. The partners are members of the Bos- 
ton and New York Stock Exchanges. 



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B LEWIS, Periodicals, Stationery and Fancy Goods, No. 250 
Hanover Street.— Tlie stationery, periodical and fancy 
u goods trade has a wide-awake representative in tills por- 
tion ol the city of Boston in the person of Mr. B. Lewis, 
of No. 250 Hanover Street, who has been long identified with this 
line of trade. The business was started twenty-two years ago on 
the opposite side of the street, and in 1885 was removed to its pres- 
«nt quarters. The founder of the enterprise was Mr. E. S. Bliss, 
in whose service as assistant Mr. Lewis was for nine years. On 
December 1st, 1887, the latter purchased the business, which has 
oontinued to grow and prosper under his management.. The prem- 
ises occupied comprise a salesroom and basement, each having an 
area of 25x40 feet. The salesroom is elegant and attractive in its 
fittings and appointments, and the stock carried is a carefully 
selected, varied and comprehensive one. It embraces every de- 
scription of plain and fancy stationery, stationer's sundries in 
great variety, books of all knids, all the leading periodicals and 
the principal daily and weekly newspapers, plush goods, albums, 
toys, the finest brands of cigars in tlie market, etc. In connection 
with the business is a largely patronized circulating library of 
over twelve hundred volumes, which are issued at two cents per 
volume per day, or ten cents per week. Newspapers and period- 
icals are promptly and regularly delivered at residences or places 
of business of patrons. The leading specialties of the house are 
stationery, periodicals and cigars, and the patronage is a substan- 
tial and influential one. Mr. Lewis is a young, energetic and 
courteous business man, very popular with his customers. 

McGREENERYBnos.,Fine Cigars, and Jobbers in all the 
Leading Brands of Tobacco, No. 214 Hanover Street.— 
There are almost as many opinions as there are smokers 
as to what constitutes the proper flavor of a cigar, but we 
have observed that those who insist upon having a superior article 
find that the goods handled by Messrs. McGreenery Bros., fill the 
bill every time. This firm founded their enterprise in 1880, and 
have from very meagre beginnings built up a business which in its 
magnitude is unexcelled by that of any riv.al house in this section 
of the city. The store occupied has a frontage of twenty feet and 
a depth of forty feet, and is very tastefully fitted up and admir- 
ably arranged. Messrs. McGreenery Bros., carry in stock a full 
line of the most noted and popular brands of cigars, among which 
will be found the genuine favorites, Spanish Girl, J. and J., and 
La Norma cigars, and other leading brands. The stock also 
includes the best grades of smoking and chewing tobaccos, and 
3moker.s' supplies of every description. The prices are always 
reasonable, and the service to all patrons is courteous and prompt. 
The transactions of the house are of both a wholesale and retail 
character, and a brisk trade is done throughout the city and its 
vicinity. The members ol the firm are Messrs. J. J. and J. F. Mc- 
Greenery, both of whom are natives of Boston. 

LAWRENCE & ROBINSON, Real Estate, No. 15 Congress 
Street.— The real estate interests of Boston have in re- 
cent years attained proportions of such magnitude 
that they unquestionably represent the most important 
factor in Boston's financial strength, and have enlisted in their 
service the highest order of talent, energy and enterprise in the 
business world. Prominent among the best connected and most 
active and enterprising of the houses thus referred to is that of 
Messrs. Lawrence & Robinson, whose office is centrally and con- 
veniently located at No. 15 Congress Street. The business of this 
firm was founded originally in 1877 by Mr. B. B. Lawrence, who is 
a resident of Linden, Mass., and was born in St. Andrews, N. B., 
whence he came to Boston more than a score of years ago. He 
conducted the enterprise alone until September, 1S88, when he 
formed a partnership with Mr. B. F. Robinson, who is a native and 
resident of Saugus. Both gentlemen are middle-aged and have 
had an extended experience in real estate matters. They can be 
relied upon to give sound and reliable advice to persons seeking 
profitable Investments in real estate, and have always in band 
many desirable bargains in city and country property. The firm 
conduct a general real estate business, buying, selling, leasing, 
exchanging and letting, and also collect rents, take the entire 
management of estates, and negotiate loans on bonds and mort- 
gages. The firm give particular attention to the handling of prop- 



erty in Maiden, .Somerville, Linden and Saugus, and make a spe- 
cialty of selling medium-priced houses on easy terms. They also 
build houses to order at short notice, and are justices of the peace. 

AMOS HAYNES, Manufacturer of Superior White Wine and 
Cider Vinegar and Refined Cider, Office: No. 49 South 
Market and No. 4 Chatham Streets.— Boston is the centro 
of very important industrial enterprises; there is hardly an 
article of general consumption whicli cannot be had of home pro- 
duction, and notably is this the case with vinegar, as manutact- 
ured of absolute purity and the highest quality by Mr. Amos, 
Haynes with headquarters at No. 49 South Market and No. 4 
Chatham Streets. Mr. Haynes was born in Charlestown, Mass., 
and early in life became identified with the branch of trade in 
which he h.as achieved such marked success. He established this 
business upwards of forty years ago, and early achieved for his 
product the reputation of being the best in market. His facilities 
were repeatedly taxed to the utmost, and to-day his factory at 
Somerville is the best equipped, and one of the most extensive in 
New England. Mr. Haynes there employs twenty hands, 
in the manufacture of white wine and cider vinegars and re- 
fined cider. The enormous consumption of his vinegars af- 
fords ample proof of their purity, and superiority in general to 
all other brands. He numbers among his permanent customers 
leading jobbers and grocers all over the city and New England, 
and is ever solicitous of their best interests delivering his superior 
quality of product at prices as low as can be had elsewhere. He is 
a respected member of commercial circles, and has ever extended 
a hearty support to all measures best calculated to advance the 
permanent welfare and prosperity of this, the second greatest cen- 
tre of commerce in the United States. 

BEIERMEISTER & SPICER, Manufacturers of the Celebrated 
Anchor Brand Linen Collars, Cuffs and Shirts, Boston 
Salesrogm, No. 38 Bedford Street.— One of the largest 
houses in Troy engaged in the manufacture of linen col- 
lars, cuffs and tine shirts, is that of Beiermeister & Spicer, whose 
goods, bearing their trade-mark, the Anchor brand, have a wide 
reputation throughout the United States and are always in demand 
by the trade, and have become staple on the market. For the pur- 
pose of supplying the trade branch houses have been established 
in New York, Chicago and Boston. The house in this city is in 
charge of Mr. Henry Beiermeister, a young man of excellent busi- 
ness qualifications, who has had quite a lengthened experience in 
the business, and who has by his enterprise and perseverance 
established a large, substantial trade throughout New England. 
He occupies very desirable premises at No. 38 Bedford Street, and 
keeps in stock a large general assortment of all the geods manu- 
factured by the firm, and can otter inducements it would be diffi- 
cult to obtain elsewhere. The goods are all of the higliest stand- 
ard quality, and are among the best In the market. 

WELLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Manufacturers of 
Brass and Wire Goods, No. 65 Sudbury Street.— The 
widely and favorably known Wells Manufacturing Com- 
pany was founded about eighteen years ago by a man 
by the name of Wells, and who was succeeded by Mr. L. Burnham. 
About three and a half years ago, Mr. E. H. Harding became sole 
proprietor. He is a native of this state, and a mechanical expert 
of great pr.actical experience, and of equal importance of great 
inventive genius. He has here, a large factory fully equipped with 
the latest improved machinery for the manufacture of a wide range 
of brass and wire goods, including many specialties in light ma- 
chinist work. Mr. Harding is the inventor and patentee of the 
Magic needle-threader for sewing machines. The seamstresses 
and all who toil long at, or only briefly use sewing machines, la- 
bor under a heavy obligation to Mr. Harding in view of the direct 
practical utility of this most ingenious, and really wonderful in- 
vention. It is handy, simple, easily worked, and is having a large 
sale all over the United States. Every owner of a sewing m.achlne 
should have one. It will repay the slight cost a thousand times 
over. Dealers in sewing machines and supplies should keep a 
full stock on hand. Mr. Harding devotes close personal supervis- 
ion to his factory, and all goods produced by him are of best qual- 
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LOUIS COHN & CO., Wholesale Manufacturers of I'icture 
Frames, MouUllngs, Etc., No. 4Cliarlestowii Street.— Among 
the various lines of business represented in Boston,;m which a 
cousidei-ably increased amount of activity is now observable, 
may be mentioned tliat of manufacturing picture frames, mould- 
ings, etc., and the handling of backing, glass, mats, cliromos, screw 
eyes, nails, cords, etc., upon a wholesale scale. This is one of the 
most encouraging signs of the time, for. as the intelligent reader 
will readily understand the volume of the consumption of these 
classes of manufactures, constitutes an e.xcelient criterion as to 
the condition of trade In general. An enterprising and deservedly 
prosperous concern engaged in this branch of trade is that of 
Messis Louis Cohn &Co , of No 4 Chirlestown Stieet, Haymaiket 



these safes for nearly half a ceutiiry is an unbroken one of perfect 
security, eitlier against tire or burglars, and they are to day the 
popular and leading safe in the market. More than 300,000 of them 
are In use. The company has branch houses in all the principal 
cities and centres in the union. Their capital and facilities aie 
unlimited, and through any of tlieir numerous branches they are 
prepared to furnish safes, at reasonable prices, that cannot be du- 
plicated elsewhere, and also to contract for their celebrated dove- 
tailed bank and vault work. Their time lock is considered the 
best and most modern in operation. Those requiring any work in 
their line would do well to obtain estimates and prices from tlie 
Messrs. Wilson, Cassels & Co 




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Squaie, opposite the Boston & Maine depot The business wis 
oiganized in 1881 by the piesent piopnetoi. Mi L Cohn, and 
tlie venture has been attended with the most satisfactoi-y results. 
a very extensive and substantial city and suburban trade having 
been established, and one necessitating the permanent employ- 
ment of ten hands. The premises occupied are commodious and 
admirably equipped with the best mechanical contrivances pertain- 
ing to tlie trade. Pictuie frames and mouldings in any and every 
style desired are made to order from the best materials obtainable 
and at prices which defy successful competition. To meet the 
oiders of dealers a heavy stock of frames, mouldings, backing, 
glass, mats, chromos. screw eyes, nails, cord, etc., is kept always 
on hand, and the service in all cases is prompt and reliable. Mr. 
Cohn Is a native of Germany but has long resided in Boston, and 
has acquired wide-spread esteem by his industry and integrity. 

WILSON, CASSELLS & CO.. New England Representatives 
of Hall's Safe and Lock Company's Standard Fire and 
Burglar-Proof Safes. Dove-Tailed Burglar-Proof Bank 
and Vault Woi-k, and Infallible Time Locks, No. 66 Sud- 
bury Street.— Modern safe construction has attained a degree of 
perfection that seems marvelous to the public. It is not every so 
called safe which, when subjected to the severe testof use, the in 
cidents of Are, or attacks of burglars, prove to be in reality, a safe 
The Hall Safe and Lock Company, of C^incinnati, was organized In 
1840, and has had a remarkable growth of success. Its facilities 
have been repeatedly tasked to the utmost to supply the growing 
demand. In 1884 the Boston branch was opened under the pro- 
prietorship of Messrs. Wilson, Cassels & Co., gentlemen conversant 
and long experienced in the manufacture and sale of these 
celebrated safes. They have developed very influential connec- 
tions, and have sold the Hall safes to the leading houses of New 
England, also supplying the majority of banks with their cele- 
brated dove-tailed burglar-proof vault and safe work. Their sales 
room and office are at No. 66 Sudbury Street, where they cany a 
full stock and complete assortment of these safes, adapted to the 
needs of all business, large and small. These safes are absolutely 
fire-proof; they are made upon the latest and most improved prin- 
ciple, embodying all recent improvements ; the workmanship is of 
the best, while the locks are models of ingenuity. The record of 



ATHAN KOBBINS, Dealer in Poultry and Wild Game, Stalls, 
Nos. 33 and 35 Faneuil Hall Market.— The oldest estab- 
lished and most widely known concern in this section 
of Boston is that of Nathan Bobbins, dealer in poultry and 
wild game, whose stalls, Nos. 33 and 35, are located in Faneuil 
Hall Market. This business was established sixty-two years ago 
by Mr. Nathan Bobbins, who conducted it till Sept. 4th, 1888, when 
he died after a long, honorable and successful careei-, deeply 
lamented by a host of friends and .acquaintances, owing to his 
generosity and integrity. His grandson. Mr. Olny Bobbins, is 
now managing the business under the old name of his grandfather 
Nathan Bobbins. The following is a short sketch from the Boston 
Record, Sept. 6th. 1888, of the life of Nathan Bobbins, the veteran 
of Faneuil Hall Market. Nathan Bobbins, for more than fifty 
years a Faneuil Hall marketman. died at his residence in Arling- 
ton last evening, after an illness of several months. Nathan Rob- 
bins was born in Arlington, formerly West Cambridge. Mass., Sep- 
tember 7. 1803. At an early age he found employment with Jabez 
rislier, later of Fisher & Chapin. dealer in poik and provisions in 
Boston. Hei'emainedln Mr. Fisher's employ biit a short time, when 
he began business for himself, having only such funds as he had 
accumulated fiom his small trading and the savings of his youth- 
ful ventures in business. On tlie 26th day of August, 1826, Mr. 
Bobbins took possession of stalls 33 and 35 Quiney market, being 
one of the very first occupants of that structure Very few of the 
stalls were then, and for some time after the market opened, occu- 
pied the whole scheme of the market being at the time regarded 
as a ciiimerical one. and sure to come to grief. His business at 
the time he opened in the market was that of a dealer in poultry, 
wild game and live pigs for shipment. Mr. Bobbins was a shrewd 
business man, and always had a pleasant word for everybody. 
By his enterprise and honorable dealing he soon built up a large 
business, supplying the leading hotels and private families of the 
city and vicinity with game and poultry. Among his private cus- 
tomers were many of the best Boston families— the Lawrences, 
Adamses, Websters. R. G. Shaw and the Williamses being among 
the number, their children and grandchildren being still his cus- 
tomers. He indulged in no outside specuUitions, and could always 
be found at his place of business. He was one of the founders of 
the Faneuil Hall National Bank in 1851, since which time Mr. Bob- 
bins had either been a director or president of the institution. At 
the time of his death he Wiis president of the bank, having held 
the office for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Bobbins was 
one of the only two survivors of the original stall-holders in the 
Quiney market, and was at one time the sole owner of Gray's 
wharf. Aiuong the many boys whom Mr. Bobbins brought up and 
graduated in business, and who have become wealtliy and hon- 
ored men in the communities in which they have located, are his 
two brothers, Ainos and Eli Bobbins of New York, who are both 
millionaires, being worth from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, and who 
are the largest poultry and game dealers in the United States, and 
are, as was their elder brother, honored and respected by all who 
know them. At the present day under the management of Mr. 
Olny Robbins the stalls are very carefully fitted up and kept, and 
the arrangements are the best that can be devised for facilitating 
the transaction of business. Mr. Olney Bobbins is in possession of 
excellent facilities for procuring supplies from the best sections of 
the country, and is always enabled to offer the choicest game and 
poultry in America at extremely low prices. Personally Mr. Olny 
Robbins is highly esteemed by the community for his enterprise 
and integrity, and enjoys the entire confidence of his numerous 
patrons. 



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ROBERT MORSE, Wholesale Commission. Dealer in Wines, 
Liquors, Etc., No. 11 Central Street (Room 47).— llobert M. 
Morse senior, is to-Uay tlie oldest ot the class of men, who 
were largely engaged in the grocery and produce business 
in Boston more than sixty years ago. He just passed the eighty- 
second year of his life and lie still occupies an office in Central Street, 
where he still keeps up the sign of commission business if only for 
some occasional transaction and the pride of the thing as well as 
the associations of the past. He is still active and bears the unmis- 
takable signs of health and contentment in his cheerful counten- 
ance. He was born on the 8th of January, 1807, in VVindliam County, 
State of Vermont in Newfane, the third town of the couuty— the 
one part set off a.s Fayettville and another ,as Williamsville, where 
his enterprising father to meet tlie wantsof the early settlers had 
built, saw and grist mills, and a good sized mansion which has for 
more than seventy years been occupied .asa county tavern. When 
a little past thirteen years of age, Mr. Morse, against the expressed 
judgment and will of his guardiau but with the consent and ap- 
probation of his mother, determined to try his fortune in Boston. 
It was the time of the old stage coaches and delayed by floods on 
the Connecticut, he failed to reach Boston ni season to .secure a 
place which had been thought desirable. He had but little money 
and the only alternative was to pei'severe and get a place or go 
back to be laughed at in the village of his birth. He determined 
to persevere, not only to find a place but to get one better than the 
one for which he seemed destined, one that should seem to give 
signs of permanency. In this spirit he went forward day by day, 
visiting only the stores which seemed to be engaged in a large and 
respectable business, and before the end of a week he succeeded 
in obtaining a clerkship in the employ of one of the oldest impor- 
ters of hosiery and gloves from England. France and Germany— 
Smitli & Gore, who hart a branch store in New York. This firm 
stood high in credit and kept their business in an accur.ale and 
systematic way. In short they were ready and p'ompt in all their 
ways when they sent orders abroad for goods, gener.ally a bill of 
exchange went with tlie order. Their account books were a model 
in the way ot book keeping and bold and beautiful penmanship. In 
this way the subject of this sketch was trained in business ways, 
and when on his twenty-first birthday, 18-28, his time was up, he re- 
ceived from his masters a sm.all balance due him for service, ,ind 
parted in mutual good feelings and went directly to a spacious 
store at No. 9 South Market Street, wliere aided by a man of ex- 
perience, he commenced business in the grocery and produce line, 
and remained in tliat store over twenty-eight years, constantly in- 
creasing his business till it compared well in extent and amount 
with some twenty of tlie largest dealers inth.atline; for seven 
years a partnership existed witli Asa F. Cochran of Pembrook, N. 
H. and during this period I lie business was done under tlie name of 
Cochran & Morse, and Cochran, Morse & Co., and at this time it 
owned and had many sm.ill coasting vessels employed in various 
ways, in the states and in foreign countries, principally in trade with 
Cuba the north and the south side and in the Gulf Trade with Mex- 
ico, wliich at one time was profitable, and during this period there 
arose a new industry, importing and manufacturing of p.alm leaf 
hats which were sent to every port and place ofconseiiuence in the 
United States, France, Africa and South America. This business 
continued after the partnersliip with Cochran closed in March, 
1836, and when the style of the firm hecame Robert M. Morse & 
Co. In the long course of these years of uncertain enterprise 
the les.sons of his early life and apprenticeslilp always exerted a 
powerful influence on the business character of Mr. Morse. He 
held it as the first principle of his life to deal fairly and honestly 
with all men and never to misrepresent any important fact in a 
case but to keep his word of truth as his bond, to sell good gooils 
at fair prices. In tlie best period of his business his s.ales even in 
low priced times amounted to about $.100,000 auiiually, and in his 
times the firms of which he has been a member, have done a 
tmsiness of many millions and nobody ever complained of any 
'ntentional injustice. 

AG. ALLEN, Hardware, Brass Handles, Antique and Modern, 
Desk Rails, Castors, Etc., No. 127 W.ashington Street.- 
^ This gentleman deals .at both wholesale and retail in 
hardware of every description, brass handles, both an- 
ti(iue and modern desk rails, castors, etc., making a leading 



specialty of cabinet hardware, and has been established in the 
business here for a period of full forty years. The specialties in 
many articles here displayed are of a nature, and bear such a 
character for utility and usefulness, .as to command universal at- 
tention and general patronage. All goods are purchased direct 
from nuanufacturers and first h.ands in vast quantities and at ad- 
vantageous rates, and their superiority and low prices have se- 
cured the approbation of an array of patrons in this and other 
countries, the tr.ade of the house extending not only to .all parts of 
the United States, but to Mexico, the Azores and other foreign 
ports. The supplies are recognized as standard in value wherever 
introduced, and have served to give this house a prestige and a 
popularity both at home and abro.ad. Mr. Allen was born in Bos- 
ton and is known and honored as one of its representative mer- 
chants. * 

LIBERO PEUETTI, Manufacturer and Importer of Fine 
Cigars, No. 30 Exchange Street.— Among the cigar houses 
of this city none is more wortliy of honorable mention than 
that of Mr. Libero Peretti, who first began business in 
Harris Street in 1884, and afterwards removed to Nasliua Street, 
then to North Street and finally, to Exchange Street, on August 
15, 1888. Here he has a commodious workshop on the second floor, 
and this is equipped with all necessary appliances for the produc- 
tion of the finest brands of cigars, for which the house has be- 
come noted, and for which there is a very active demand. Six 
hands, skilled and experienced in the business, are employed in 
the manufacturing department, and the finest brands of cigars 
obtainable are pioduced here. Mr. Peretti, in addition to carry- 
ing a heavy stock of cigars of his own manufacture, has always 
on hand a fine and extensive assortment of foreign manufactured 
cigars, imported direct and carefully selected to meet the demands 
of a first-cKass trade. All goods sent out will be found to be exactly 
as represented, and in tlie matter of price this house defies compe- 
tition for the same quality of goods. The trade is of both a whole- 
sale and retail character, and extends over a large part of the 
New England States. 

Gr. RAYMOND, Costume Parlors, No. 3 Peniberton Square. 
—This thriving and p.osperous business w.as estiiblished 
J about five years ago by the gentleman whose name heads 
tlie sketch, and from its inception the venture h.as proved a 
positive and permanent success. Keeping on hand .at .all times an 
extensive, varied and At a.ssortinent of everything in tlie line of 
costumes, courteous and attentive to patrons, and withal thor- 
oughly couver.sant with the business, Mr. E,ayniond has been en- 
abled to secure the hold on popular favor and patronage he deserv- 
edly enjoys. The premises occupied, including office, property, 
parlors and worKrooms, are commodious and well-ordered, three 
efficient assistants being employed, while a complete line of cos- 
tumes for masquerades, old folks' concerts, private theatricals, 
tableaux, etc., is constantly carried on hand all orders receiving 
immediate attention, and the patronage, which is large and influ- 
ential, extends .all over the New England States. Mr. Raymond's 
mother was one of the quartette who sang at the laying of the 
foundation of Bunker Hill Monument, and her mother one of the 
first who ascended to the top when fiiiislied. 

ARTHUR S. DOANE & CO., Engravers and Commercial Prin- 
ters, No. 27 Kilby Street.— Mr. Doaiie has been identified 
with tliis tr.ade for a number of years, and was formerly 
connected with the firm of John A.Lowell & Co., of this 
city. In 1886 he started in business for himself, and has since met 
with the most gratifying success. Jlr. Doane occupies a well 
equipped printing office on Broad Street, where he has every facil- 
ity, including steam power for tinning out the finest class of work. 
He is particularly noted for doing fine steel engraving work for 
business purposes, as well as wedding and visiting cards, of which 
he makes a specialty, while commercial printing in all Its branches, 
bill and letter heads, note heads, invoices, circulars, etc., is done 
in the best style of the art .and in the promptest and most satisfac- 
tory way. The trade is of the finest description and is of larpe 
dimensions, constantly increasing. Mr. Doane, who is .a Bostonian 
of middle age, p.ays the greatest attention to business and has a 
first-class reputation In the trade. 



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JOHN MATTSON & CO., Real Estate and Insurance Brokers ; 
Kooni No. 69, No 28 School Street.— One of the most active 
and enterprising young brokers in real estate and insurance 
to be met with in lliis city is Mr. John Mattson, wliose well 
appointed olBce is located very desirably at No. 28 School Street. 
Mr. Mattson is a native of Sweden, but came to Boston in 1884, 
after being several years a resident of Orcat Britain, having 
resided i)reviously for about six years in Norway. Though a young 
man he has had a large business experience and has traveled very 
extensively in Europe. His first experience in business life was 
as a clerk in a large shipping house in Arandal, Norway. During 
tlie greater part of his residence in Great Britain he was connected 
with one of the largest firms engaged in importing American pro- 
duce. Attracted by the opportunities offered ambitious, enterpris- 
ing young men in the states, he ^.■mbar^^^d for Boston in 18.84 as 




already stated. May. 1888, he opened his present offlce and added 
real estate brokerage to his enterprise. Mr. Mattson does a gen- 
eral brokerage business, buying, selling and exchanging on com- 
mission all forms of city and suburban property, negotiating and 
purchasing mortgages, etc., and being well posted as to property 
values, and possessing sound financial judgment, his services are 
valuable to and in great demand among capitalists and inves- 
tors generally. He has also superior facilities for placing insur- 
able risks in the soundest insurance companies at the most fav- 
orable rates and witli every assurance of prompt and equitable 
adjustment of losses. Mr. Mattson, although a young man, has 
built up a large and influential clientile and is fast attaining a 
position among the representative city business men in his line. 

WATTS & WILLIS, Commission Merchants, Butter, Cheese, 
Eggs, Etc., Basement No. 2Taneuil Hall Market.— Prom- 
inent in the staple branches of the wholesale produce 
trade, the house of Messrs. Watts & Willis has developed 
influential connections of the most desirable character, and Is 
tlie oldest firm, as one without change in partnership, in the Fa- 
neuil Hall Market. The business was founded by the late Dexter 
FoUett.in 1826, who was succeeded by the firm of Follett & Alexan- 
der. In 18.56, Mr J. C. Willis, who had been with the house as clerk 
and manager from 1846. formed with Mr. Alexander the firm of 
Alexander & Willis; in 1858 the copartnership was dissolved, and 
Mr. Isaac Watts and Mr. Willis tlien formed the copartnership 
which has since permanently continued to exist. The firm has de- 
veloped an important trade of great magnitude, with influential 
connections both among producer.s. shippers and buyers. They 
occupy basement No. 2 in the market, and are daily receivers of 
butter from the finest creameries, choice dairy butter, prime 
cheese, fresh eggs, poultry, game in season, and other produce. 
Tlic firm have the cap.acity and connections to handle the largest 
consignments, making advances on same, and rendering prompt 
account sales They are also sole agents for N(nv England for the 
Improved Dry Air Refrigerator. The large and rapidly growing 
sales to produce merchants, grocers, butchers, hotels, restaurants 



and families show conclusively that this make gives much the 
best satisfaction of any. The principles embodied are practical 
and simple. The law of the atmosphere, that cold air seeks the 
lowest levels, while warm air rises, has been followed in the Im- 
proved Dry Air Refrigerators, and a continuous circulation is 
formed, the cold air from the ice passing tlirough and into the 
food compartment, rapidly refrigerating tiie food, as it becomes 
warmer it passes into a Hue and rises again in the ice holder, de- 
positing its moisture and impurities, and again circulates over the 
food. It is the only refrigerator provided with two distinct dead 
air spaces, and secures the utmost economy of ice. All those in 
need of a refrigerator should visit basement No. 2, and see tlie im- 
proved in full operation. 

SAMUEL DUDLY KELLEY, Architect, Oftiees: No. 209 Wash- 
ington Street.— The architectural advancement during the 
past decade of American development is as remarkable for 
its notable beauty and elegance, as it is for extreme utility 
and stability. Here in New England the work of leading local 
architects is of a character to elicit the warmest commendation of 
the public, and the favorable opinions of experts. A leading mem- 
ber of the profession is Mr. Samuel Dudley Kelley, with head- 
quarters in the Rogers Building, No. 209 Washington Street. Mr. 
Keiley is devoted to his profession, and has designed the plans for. 
and superintended the erection of a number of the finest and 
handsomest buildings in Boston. Establishing himself about tour- 
teen years ago, he brought to bear the exjierience of many years' 
close study and practical application of the science and art of the 
skilled architect, and early evinced marked originality and great 
executive ability in dealing with the difficult and ever varying 
problems and requirements of the building enterprises contracted 
for. It is thus a matter for congratulation that Mr. Kelley should 
have been ooinmissioued to design and erect such prominent and 
ornate additions to Boston's architecture as the Hoffman House, 
corner of Columbus Avenue and Berkley .Street; The Hotel Royal, 
corner Beacon and Exeter Streets ; South Boston Stables and Car 
House ; Middlesex Kailroad.Stables, Bunker Hill ; the Hotel Beacon 
Winter Harbor, Maine; the residence for J. R. Whipple, Esq., on 
Coinmouwealth Avenue, another mansion on Commomwealth Ave- 
nue for Warren Sherburne, Esq.. and many of the finest and most 
attractive modern residence in the Back Bay district. Mr. Kelley 
makes the same careful study of the interior requirements as ol 
the exteriors, his computations are accurate, his plans thoroughly 
homogeneous and practical and style of architecture pure and 
symmetrical. His aim is to secure to the owner the best results 
within the limits of estimates and his close adherence to specifica- 
cationsand careful supervisions of builders and contractors point 
him out as a sound, conservative business man, as well as an archi- 
tect of the highest professional attainments 

ROBERT J. MELLEDOE, Mortg.ages, No. 72 Equitable Build 
ing.— Among those paying especial attention to tliis line of 
business is Mr, Robert J. Melledge. Mr. Melledge is a na- 
tive of Cambridge, and although quite a young man, is 
tlioroughly versed in all legal questionings governing real estate, 
and has had some years of experience in the care of real estate 
and kindred subjects, and has developed a desirable business 
connection throughout the city and suburbs, and he transacts a 
general business in negotiating loans on bonds and mort- 
gages, and numbers among his regular clients some of our 
leading capitalists, investors and property owners, confining him- 
self to investments of a conservative class. Having a thorough 
knowledge of the Equitable Mortgage Company, of Kansas City. 
Mo., and New York, he offers for sale tlie guarantee mortgages 
and debenture bonds of that company. Tlie Equitable is the 
largest company doing business in western mortgages, having a 
capital of 82,000,000, and conducting its business in a highly 
conservative manner, is constantly growing in the confidence of 
capitalists and investors. Mr. Melledge devotesespecialattention 
to this department, and is prepared to give reliable information at 
all times to those seeking an outlet for their capital, and conducts 
his busiue.ss on the most conservative methods, striving to give 
satisfaction by close pei'sonal attention to all matters committed to 
his care. Mr. .Melledge has especial familiarity with matters of 
real estate in Cambridge, where he resides. 



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TC. POWER, Aineiicau and Nova Scotia Employment Com- 
pany, No. 9 School Street, Near Washington Street.— An 
^ unbrolten record of pro.sperlty, e.\tending over a period of 
nearly thirty-nine years, marks the liistoiy of the admira- 
bly conducted and responsible American and Nova Scotia Employ- 
ment Bureau, T. C. Power, manager and proprietor. This flour- 
ishing enterprise was established in 1850 by tlie gentleman whose 
»iame heads the sketch. The premises occupied are spacious, con- 
venient and neatly arranged, while an efficient corps of clerks are 
in attendance, and all persons having business here are assured 
of courteous attention and satisfactory treatment, everything 
about the place bespeaking order and excellent management. Tin 
cojnpany has always on its books an extensive and varied lins 
male and female help of all kinds, and clerks, salesmen, book 
keepers, porters, waiters, gardeners, teamsters, hostlers, coach 
men, farm hands, mill and factory operatives, domestic servants 
cooks, nurses, etc., and is prepared to furnish the very best clas- 
of help at short notice for stores, offices, hotels, restaurants, pri- 
vate families, boarding houses, builders, contractors, brick yards, 
nnlls, factories, farms, gentlemen's places, stables, railroads, ware- 
houses, etc , the office hours being from » A. m. to 4 p. m. Mr. 
Power, wlio is a gentleman in tlie prime of life and a native of tlie 
state of Maine, is a man of entire probity in his de.alings, as well 
as energy, enterprise and ample experience, and is also engaged 
in the real estate, auctioneering and loan brokerage business. 

BOSTON DASH STITCHING WORKS, J. L. Taylor, Proprietor, 
No. 28 Sudbury Street.— Tlie Boston Dash Stitcliing Works, 
.1. L. Taylor, proprietor, is about the leading and most re- 
sponsible establishment devoted to tliis particular brancli 
of industrial activity in Boston. This tlniving enterprise was 
originally started in 1882 by the Eliott Dash Stitch Company, who 
were succeeded about four years ago by tiie present proprietor, 
wlio has since conducted the business witli uniform success. The 
shop.whicli is located on the third floor of No. 28 Sudbury Street, is 
ample and completely equipped, steam power and all necessary 
facilities being at liand, while several expert workmen are em- 
ployed. Dashers, wings and fenders are liere covered, stitclied 
and finished in the higliest style of the art, and in the most expe- 
ditious manner, for tlie carriage and sleigh trade, tlie best grades 
of d.ash leather being constantly kept on hand, while all work 
executed in this concern is warranted to render satisfaction, Mr. 
Taylor referring by permission to tlie following well known car- 
riage manufacturers— Sargent & Ham, James Hall & Son, E. Tyner 
& Co., F. A. Scott & Son. 

BRIGHAM & COMPANY, Engravers on Metal, No. 912 
Summer Street.— Perhaps no business is more indispen- 
sable than that which pertains to designing, engraving 
and cutting letters on metals and die sinking and stencil 
cutting, and among those engaged in it tliere are none more capa- 
ble of doing tills kind of work than Brigham & Co., whose estab- 
lisliment is one of tiie oldest and most prominent in Boston. It 
was founded in 1850 by Mr. Joseph H. Merriam who carried it on 
until 1870, when the present Ann became his successor. For many 
years the business was carried on at No. 11 Cornliill, and some 
time ago was removed to the premises now occupied, wliich have 
an area of 40x100 feet and are perfectly equipped with special 
macliinery and tools. From ten to twelve practical workmen are 
employed and steam power is used to facilitate the work which 
embraces designing and engraving on all kinds of metals and 
letter cutting and die sinking and manufacturing seal and em- 
bossing presses and brass dies for embossing and printing, steel 
stamps, alpliabets and figures, hand stamps and ribbon and dating 
stamps, rubber stamps and stencils for all purposes, burning 
brands brass gilding dies, 'machinery, carriage and name plates 
and badges and medals and cheeks and tags of every description. 
Mr. W. C. Brigham who lias the general management of the busi- 
ness is an experienced engraver on metals. He is a native of 
Boston. 



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HE FLORENCE SHIRT COMPANY, No. 791 Washington 
Street.— The Florence Shirt Company which was recently 
establislied lias achieved a wide reputation and under 
the efficient management of Mr. J. August and Mr. H. 



Lewis, a substantial trade is being built up. They are both ex- 
perienced practical shirt cutters and manufacture a fine class of 
goods and have become celebrated for the admirable fit and excel- 
lence of tlie work turned out. Shirts are made to order at from $6 
per half dozen and upwards and as they are cut upon scientific 
principles, satisfaction is always guaranteed. The store occupied 
is 20x50 feet in area and very handsomely fitted up, and contains a 
general variety of gentlemen's garniture including besides fine 
white and colored shirts, neckwear, collars, cuffs, hosiery, under- 
wear, gloves, etc., of all kinds, in siiort, all goods which pertain to 
the perfect costume of a gentleman. In the store three clerks are 
employed and every attention is given to those wlio favor Messrs. 
August & Lewis with their patronage. They established business 
with a determination to succeed and by their energy and persever- 
ance have just cause to be%iroud of the success wliieh has attended 
their efforts. They are liberal and fair in tlieir dealings and as 
shirt makers can please all who leave orders witii them and guar- 
antee a perfect article of this kind, conducing in no small degree 
to repose in life and exemption from profanity. 

BENJ. L. HAWKES, Stationery, Periodicals, Etc., No. 234 Han- 
over Street.— Mr. Hawkes is deserving of prominent mention 
in tliese pages and lias been in business liere for the 
past seven years, and has built up a trade of consider 
able importance and of a substantial and influential character. 
His store has an area of 22.\50 feet, and in its arrangement and 
tasteful furnishings presents quite an attractive appearance. 
Here is a splendid display of mercantile and fancy stationery, 
stationers' sundries of every description, a fine assortment of cur- 
rent literature, dally and weekly newspapers, all the leading peri- 
odicals and a splendid selection of fancy goods of a varied char- 
acter. Special attention is given to the handling of Swedish and 
Norwegian newspapers and books, a full assortment of which can 
always be found on the counters and shelves. Books, papers and 
periodicals of all kinds are procured to order expeditiously and at 
tlie lowest rates and the service is at all times courteous and 
prompt to all classes of customers. 

WF. BOWLER, Driving and Working Horses, Nos. 106 and 
108 Canal Street.— This gentleman has been established 
in business here since 1874, and deals extensively at 
private sale, in New" York and Pennsylvania horses, 
making a specialty of handling those .uitable for use in the fire 
department and other city business, as well as for general trucking 
and carting. His stable is spacious in size, accommodating forty 
liorses. Special care is taken by Mr. Bowler to select such horses 
as will meet the demands of his patrons and all in want of a first- 
class, reliable animal. Truck, cart, engine and hose horses are 
kept constantly on liand, and his facilities for filling orders in 
these lines .and for supplying first-class stock at low prices are 
rarely equalled and never excelled in this city. He is in frequent 
receipt of carloads of horses, of a quality and cliaiacter for both 
driving and working, that commend them to the confidence and 
patronage of close and critical buyers. Square dealing and the 
widely known worth of the proprietor liave always inspired the 
fullest confidence and established this house in the general esteem 
as a reliable representative. 

THOMAS W. HOBDAY, Mechanical Drauglitsman, Room No. 
11. No. 82 Water Street.— For tlioroughly first-class work 
in the line of drawings for working models, experimen- 
tal machinery, trade marks, tracings, etc., none have made 
a better reputation than Thomas AV. Hobday, mechanical draughts- 
man. He is one of the foremost exponents of tlie art in Boston, 
and has a flue patronage tiiroughout the city, state and tlie whole 
of New England. Mr. Hobday, who is an expert and has had sev- 
eral years' practical and successful experience in this exercise of 
his art, of which he is a complete master. He is prepared to make 
drawings for working models, special machinery and mechanical 
devices of every description in the most reliable and excellent 
manner, at short notice, giving particular attention to patent 
drawings, trade marks, lithographs, triicings and blue prints, 
while cams are laid out, etc., in first-class style; working models 
and tlie construction of experimental machines being his leading 
specialty. 



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JOSEPH F. JONES & CO., Dealers in Oils of all kinds, and Cot- 
ton Waste, No. 75 Haverhill Street.— The well-known name 
of Messrs. Frank Jones & Co., has been continuously before 
the public for the past thirty seven years, and which lias a 
character in the oil trade second to that of no other establishment 
The business was organized in 1851, by the late Mr. Joseph Jones, 
who died in May, 1S88. His son, Mr. J. Frank Jones, was in part- 
nership with him for twenty years, and since his death his son has 
been the sole proprietor of the business, which consistsofthe hand- 
ling, at wholesale and retail, of all kinds of oils, including engine, 
38 years at present locatiou. 

MACHINERY AND CYLINDER DILS. 

AxUatid Gear Greasi^ Cotton ilaslc. 
"WHOLESALE AND RETAU.. 

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Farmers 



machinery and cylinder oils, also lard, sperm, paralfine, and neats 
foot, and a full line of animalvig petroleum and fish oils, cotton 
waste, etc. The premises occupied tor the business, comprise a 
well stocked store. Every facility is possessed for the prompt ful- 
fillment of orders, and a brisk and extensive trade isdone through 
out the whole of the New England States. We would call special 
notice to the Artie Cylinder Oil. as a pure, economical and perfect 
valve lubricator. It contains no animal oil to gum the i-ings, no 
stearic acid to go through p.acking, nogunistogiveitanapperance 
of great body, no salted stock to occasion rust, and it is liquid at 
zero Mr. Jones is a native of Massachusetts, and a pushing 
and energetic business man. 

THE SEWING MACHINE SUPPLIES COMPANY, No. 105 
Summer Street.— The trade of The Sewing Machine Supplies 
Company is large and active and extends not only through- 
out the whole of the United States, Canada and Mexico, but 
they also export to Central America, Europe and Australia. This 
flourishing company, of which Geo. H. Bleloch (manager of the 
National Needle Company, Springfield), is president, and C. S. 
Luitwieler treasurer and manager, was organized on October 1, 
1880, at Springfield, Miiss.. where the business was conducted up 
to 1882, when itw.is moved to this city. They occupy here commo- 
dious and well-ordered quarters, and keep on hand always a large 
and first-class stock, which comprises everything comprehended 
in sewing machine supplies, and manufactures' findings, the fol- 
lowing being tneir leading specialties St.andard machine needles, 
wax thread needles, McKay needles, parts of all sewing machines, 
belting and oils, channel knives, channel grooves, Amazena skiv- 
ing knives, sewing-machine oilers and screw drivers, while a fine 
line of shoe findings also is constantly carried ; all orders being at- 
tended to in the most expeditious and reliable manner. Mr. Luit- 
weiler, the efflcient manager of the concern, is a young ni.an ot 
energy and ample experience, and, prior to the Inception of tins 
prosperous enterprise, had been for some years with the National 
Needle Company at Springfield. 

ES. HARRISON & CO., Proprietors of Dr. Harrison's Perl- 
stalic Lozenges, Chalybeate Tonic, Etc., No. 15 Marshall 
Street.— This firm has a wide reputation as the sole pro- 
prietors of Dr. Harrison's Peristalic Lozenges, Chalybeate 
Ton:c,Icel.and Balsam, Pile Ointment and Diarrhea Cure. The 
business was founded thirty years ago by Dr. John S. Harrison, 
under Tremont Temiile. Dr. Harrison died In 1876. and his widow 
succeeded to the cimtrolofthebusiness.continuingthesame under 
the present firm name, with marked ability and steadily increas- 
ing success. Dr. Harrison's Peristalic Lozenges are approved by 
the most eminent of the medical faculty, .and recommended by the 
medical journals throughout the country, as a positive remedy for 
costiveness iind dyspepsia. They are a tonic and laxative, and give 



great satisfaction in all troubles arising from costiveness— the 
most common cause of headache, dizziness, piles, etc. They are 
alterative, and very effective in jaundice. pain in the side, loins and 
limbs, and a multitude of symptoms the result of congestion of the 
liver. They are so agreeable to the taste, and convenient in form, 
that children eat them readily after rejecting the usual nauseous 
remedies. In those symptoms supposed to indicate the presence 
ot .worms, these lozenges are a proper remedy, and will soon pro- 
duce a healthy action of the stom.ach and intestines. To mothers 
these lozenges are a great blessing, for. besides being superior as a 
laxative to castor oil. rhubarb, senna and all nauseous drugs, 
children never refuse them.astheyare as agreeable as confections. 
For worms, fever turns, foul stomach, etc , they are just what is 
needed, and no family>hould ever be without them. The Iceland 
Balsam is another valuable specialty o£ this house, and is highly 
esteemed as a cure for bronchitis or sore throat, whooping cough, 
asthma, and all inflammation of the mucous membrane. Harrison's 
Remedy for the Piles is an ointment, prepared by this firm, and has 
been so thoroughly tested in so many different cases as to warrant 
it to be a relief to all whowill give ita fair trial. One application 
at night never fails to relieve the greatest pain and anguish, and it 
invariably proves itself to be thesafest, surest, speediestand cheap- 
est cure for the piles extant. Harrison's Diarrhea Cure is the result 
of many years of experience and study, and is wonderfully effica- 
cious in the worst cases of diarrhoea and dysentery, as well as chol- 
era morbus and cholera infantum. Certificates of the most sur- 
prising character can be furnished. These remedies .are in steadily 
increasing demand by first-class druggists throughout New Eng- 
land. New York and the west. Orders are filled with promptness 
and care in all cases. 

WM M L. McADAMS, Stationer and Blank BookManuf.ic- 
turer. No. 42 Kilby Street.— This enterprise was founded 
between thirty and forty years ago, by the present pro- 
prietor's father, the late Mr. James McAdams, who died 
in 1884. The latter was then succeeded by his son, who was born 
and reared in the business, and who is thoroughly familiar with its 
every detail. The premises, which are eligibly located at No. 42 
Kilby Street, are commodious and thoroughly equipped in every 
department for the successful prosecution of the business. Mr. 
McAdams promptly attends to all classes of paper ruling and book 
binding, and he possesses f.acilities equal to those of any other 
house In the city for filling orders promptly, artistically and in a 
perfect manner. His material generally, as well .as the different 
mivchlnesused in the business, is of the best quality. Blank books 
are manufactured and paged at short notice, and printing of every 
description is executed with neatness and dispatch. A full and 
complete assortment of plain and fancy stationery, and st,ationer'3 
sundries is always kept on hand, and a specialty is made of copy- 
ing books and presses. Mr. McAdams is an energetic young busi- 
ness man and a native of Newtonville, Mass. He is well qualified 
by experience to sustain the old reputation which this house has 
always maintained as a thoroughly representative concern. They 
also make a specialty of perforating, numbering, eyeletting, punch 
ing, and paging tor the trade. 

MD. CRESSY & CO., Teamsters and Forwarders : Office, 
No 107 South Market Street.— For promptness, reliability 
and general service, none in their line in this city main- 
tain a higher reputation than M. D. Cressy & Co., team- 
sters and forwarders, one of the leading and most responsible firms 
engaged in this branch olthe business in Boston. The firm was es- 
tablished in 1874, and from the inception of the enterprise has 
steadily grown in public favor and confidence. The firm have in 
regular service twenty four reliable horses and twenty-two trucks 
and iwagons, while twenty five in help are employed, including 
experienced drivers, loaders, etc Teaming and forwarding of 
every description are attended to in the most expeditious and ex- 
cellent manner, the transferring of fruits, produce and market 
stuffs being the specialty, all orders receiving immediate attention, 
while the proprietors exercise clo.se personal supervision over every 
feature and detail of the business, promptness being their motto. 
The firm consists of Messrs. M, D. Cressy and A. W. Preston, both 
comparatively young men and natives of Manchester, N. II., and 
Beverly, Mass., respectively. 



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SAMUEL WALKER & CO., Oils, Naphtha Fluid, Etc., No. 33 
India Sti-eet.— This firm are extensive wholesale dealers in 
l<erosene, paraftlne, spindle, sperm, lard, native and liihri- 
catingoils; alsonaphtlia fluid and Brilliant White Safety oil. 
The foundation of the business was laid in 1859 by Mr. Samuel 
Walker, who commenced that year the manufacture of oil from coal 
imported from Scotland. Inl867 lie gave up manufacturing and de- 
voted his time and attention tosupplyingtlie trade throughout New 
England with oils of every description. In 1870 Mr. I. P. Waitt 
was admitted to partnership, remaining in the firm until his death 
in February, 1888, since wliich date Mr. Walker has continued the 
business as sole proprietor. He naturally brings to bear the widest 
range of practical experience, and gives his close personal atten- 
tion to the selection and purchase of all stock. His spacious ware- 
houses, in the adjoining town of Somerville, are stocked to reple- 
tion at all times. The illuminating oils handled by this responsible 
house are among the very best ever ofliered to the trade they burn 
freely, are of fine color, thoroughly safe and reliable, and produce 
a clear, soft and brilliant light. The cylinder oils work splendidly 
on all steam cylinders, contain no acid to corrode or grit to wear 
out the metal. Only the finest grades of refined oil are sold, and 
the prices quoted are invariably fair and equitable. Sales are 
made principally to retail grocers throughout New England. Mr. 
Walker is a native of Langdon, N. H., a prominent citizen of Wat- 
ertown, Mass., and known and honored in this city and througliout 
New England as a reliable leader of his branch of enterprise. 

CHARLES T. A. BENT, (Manufacturers' Agent,) Boots and 
Slioes, No. 23 South Street.— Mr. Bent is a native Bostonian 
and although young in years has had a very large experience 
in the handling of boots and shoes, which, with his natural 
abilities have given him a very enviable reputation in the trade. 
He established himself in business on his own account in 1883, and 
since tliat time has built up a patronage which in extent is seldom 
accorded to houses much longer in the same business. Tlie prem- 
ises utilized are eligibly located and comprise a very neatly and 
appropriately fitted up office and sample room. In the latter will 
be found a full and complete assortment of samples from nearly 
all of the principal boot and shoe manufacturing houses in this por- 
tion of the United States, and which are offered to customers at 
manufacturers' prices at the factory, at which places all orders 
■are filled and shipped direct to dealers. The products handled by 
Mr. Bent require no laudatory comment at our hands, as they are 
made by the most prominent and reliable houses in the country, 
while all goods sold are guaranteed to be as represented. The 
trade is very large and steadily increasing throughout the New 
England States. 

AW. PAINE, Tailor, No. 493 Washington Street (Room 2).— 
For the past fifteen years, Mr. A W. Paine has been en- 
^ g.aged in business for himself as a merchant tailor, and his 
tliorough practical knowledge and long experience have 
been prime factors in securing for him his present success. Mr. 
Paine has occupied his present premises since 1877, and has fitted 
up his show room and custom-work department, with everything 
needed to facilitate his labors in this branch of business. He 
caters to the best trade in the city, and makes a specialty of re- 
pairing, altering, cleaning and pressing gentlemen's clothing, in 
the most satisfactory and efficient manner, while the garments 
manufactured by him for men's wear, on all occasions are war- 
ranted to be perfect in fit, comfortable, stylish and reliable In 
quality, and thoroughness of workmanship. A. fine line of the 
latest novelties imported and domestic cloths, cassimeres and 
vestings is advantageously displayed. Mr. Paine is a native of 
Barnstable, and a man of most excellent rating in the community. 

JAMES H. CLEAVES (Successor to Joshua Cleaves), Weigher 
and Ganger, No. 31 India Street.— In a great centre of trade 
and commerce like this city, the official weigher and gauger 
fills an exceedingly useful and important function. Among 
those engaged In this line in Boston there is perhaps not one who 
is better known, than Mr. Cleaves. He is a comparatively young 
man, and a native of Salem, is a thoroughly competent weigher 
and gauger, of ample experience .and has a complete knowledge ot 
every feature and detail appertaining thereto. He has been es- 



tablished on his own account since January, 1888, wlien he suc- 
ceeded liis brother Joshua Cleaves, who in 1880 had succeeded his 
father Natlianiel Cleaves, wlio had been in business in the same 
line since 1843. Mr. Cleaves occupies ample quarters, and employs 
an efficient force of assist.ints, while all necessary appliances and 
facilities are in service. Hides, cotton, wool, iron, metals, cereals, 
etc., are accurately and reliably weiglied, while oils, spirits, liquors 
and liquid products ot all kinds are correctly and promptly 
gauged, and all business entrusted to this gentleman is certain to 
be attended to in tlie most expeditious and satisfactory manner. 

SIMON SCHMIDT, Tortoise Shell Comb, Eye Glass and Jewelry 
Manufacturer, No. 274 Washington Street.— For nearly forty- 
years the establishment conducted by Simon Schmidt, tor- 
toise shell, eye-glass and jewelry manufacturer, has been in 
prosperous existence. It is one of the oldest concerns devoted to 
this branch of industrial activity in the city. The business was 
started in 1846 by A. K. Joslyn, who conducted the s.ame up to 1874, 
when owing to his death, which occurred at this period, the present 
proprietor, who had formerly worked in tlie concern for twenty 
years, assumed control. Mr. Schmidt occupies ample and well- 
equipped quarters, which are supplied with steam power and all 
necessary facilities, while a competent assistant is employed, also. 
The productions include everything in the line of tortoise shell 
ornaments, eye-glasses and jewelry specialties, while combs, jew- 
elry and kindred articles are repaired, likewise, in the very best 
style of the art, at reasonable rates. Mr. Schmidt was born in Gei - 
many, and has been in this country for thirty-five years, and is a 
practical and expert workman of long and varied experience. 

BUKRILL & DUTTON. (Successors to Berney & Burrill,) Deal- 
ers in and Repairers of all Kinds ot Saws, Corner Beverly 
and Travers Streets.— The enterprise m whicli Messrs. Bur- 
rill & Button is engaged is one of the most important of its 
kind in the city, and is also one of the oldest, and was originated 
in 1848 by William Berney, and subsequently carried on by Henry 
Kruger, and afterwards by Berney & Burrill, whom the present 
firm succeeded four years ago. The scope of operations embraces 
dealing in all kinds of saws, of which a full and varied assortment 
is kept in stock, and also repairing saws and gumming andtrueing 
circular saws, and grinding edge tools. Five practical workmen 
are employed and premises ot ample dimensions are occupied. 
Steam power is used and the workshop is replete with all the 
necessary requisites. An extensive business is carried on, orders 
being receiyed from all p,arts of New England. Mr. John Burrill 
and Mr. George E. Button, the copartners, are both practical and 
experienced business men. Mr. Burrill is a Bostonian by birth, 
and Mr. Dutton was born in Newburyport. 

NICHOLS & CO., Manufacturers of Patent Resilene Heel- 
ing, Factory. Nos.454and45fi FederiilStreet.— The firm ot O. 
^ Nichols & Co., is known all over the T'nited States as manu- 
facturers of Patent Resilene Heeling They have been es- 
tablished in the business since 1869 and have occupied tlieir;present 
large factory since 1881. This building,which is five stories.sOxSO feet 
in dimensions, is furnished throughout with the best machinery.aud 
facilities, the former being driven by an engine with a capacity of 
twenty-five horse power. The patent Resilene paste manufactured 
by the firm is an admirable paste for shoe manufacturers, while 
Nichol's Resilene paste is peculiarly adapted for paper hangers, 
paper box manufacturers, etc., and is warranted stronger, more 
adhesive and to dry in less time than any otlier paste. 

GEO. V. DeLUE & CO., Carpenters and Builders, No, 32 Tyler 
Street, Near Kneeland.— Among the prosperous industrial 
enterprises which line this busy trade avenue will be fmind 
that of Messrs. Geo. V. DeLue & Co., carpenters and build 
ers. The premises are commodious and well arranged and the 
general appointment embraces all requisite facilities for tlie ad- 
vantageous prosecution of the business. Everything pertaining to 
this branch of skilled industry is executed in tlie best manner and 
some of the finest work to be met with in this vicinity bears evi- 
dence of the superior handicraft ot the firm. Mr. DeLue, the pro- 
prietor of the enterprise is a practical and skilful exponent of the 
carpenters' trade, and has had a wide experience in the business. 



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CHAS. W. ORNE, Butchers' Scales, Saws, Etc., No. 37 Faiieuil 
Hall Square.— Some thirty-tluee years ago this thriving busi- 
ness was established by Mr. E. S. Orne, who conducted the 
same up to 1874, when it passed into control ot his son and 
successor, the gentleman whose name lieads this slietch. Mr. 
Orne, who is a native of tliis city, and a young man of push and 
industry, as well as practical skill and experience, occupies com- 
modious and well equipped quarters as store and shops, and has in 
service complete and excellent facilities, including electric motor, 
while two expert assistants are employed, special attention being 
given to repairing and sharpening butchers' fixtures and tools. A 
large and lirst-class stock is always kept on hand, including 
butchers' scales, saws, knives, steels, boneing chisels, axes, 
cleavers, scrapers, hooks, steelyards, money drawers, hammers, 
wlietstones, shears, shovels, grass hooks, back, hand and wood 
saws, while lawn mowers are sharpened, razors honed and con- 
caved, and scales, saws, tools, etc., repaired in the most expedi- 
tious and excellent manner, at very reasonable rates. 

He. TOWER, Commission Merchant and Dealer in Flour, 
Produce and Tea, No. 66 Commercial Street.— This es- 
I tablishment was organized in 1856 under the Arm style 
of Tower & Joy, and this was the title ot the concern un- 
til 1880, when the firm was dissolved and after about two years Mr. 
Tower became the sole representative of the business of the old 
firm. The premises occupied are desirably located at No. 66 Com- 
mercial Street, and comprise one floor, having an area of 25x75 
feet, and provided with every convenience and facility for the 
transaction of business. A very large and comprehensive stock is 
carried. The house deals in all grades and qualities of flour, from 
the cheapest kinds to the best patented new processes, the finest 
grades of Vermont dairy butter, country produce of every descrip- 
tion, ground and prepared cereals of all kinds, etc., and these are 
disposed ot to jobbers and retailers in the city and surroundnig 
country. The trade is extensive and among the best class of buy- 
ers. All orders are filled and shipped with promptness and regu- 
larity, a fact well appreciated by Mr. Towers' numerous custom- 
ers. 

GEO. H. DUNNING, Beef, Pork, Lard, Hams, Pigs' Feet, Tripe. 
Sausages, Smoked Beef, Etc., Nos. 73 and 75 Faneuil Hall 
Market.— One of the most prominent among the merchants 
In the provision trade in Faneuil Hall market is Mr. George 
H. Dunning, who has been identified with it for some years. The 
business he is how so successfully carrying on was established 
about thirty-five years ago byS. S. Learned and afterwards con- 
tinued by Learned & Dunning, the Latter gentleman being the 
father of the present proprietor, who succeeded to it in 1886. Two 
assistants are employed and a business of considerable magnitude 
transacted in beef, pork, Lard, ham, pigs' feet, tripe, sausiige, 
smoked beef and provisions, a specialty being made of the York- 
shire pork product. Mr. Dunning is a native Bostonian. His trade 
is principally in this city and vicinity, and hi.-i operations are ex. 
tensive and widespread. 

WJ. SOHOFIELD, Book and Job Printer, No. 105 Snmmer 
Street.— Mr. W. J. Schofield has been identified with 
the book and job printing trade from his youth up. In 
1859 he ventured into business on his own account and 
opened an establisliinent on Summer Street that in the great fire 
of 1872 was reduced to ashes. In the January following the big 
fire he resumed business at his old place and finally located at No. 
105 Sunmier Street, and from the start has maintained an excel- 
lent reputation for not only being a thorough master in the craft, 
but for turning out work of a higher order of perfection. His 
office has a capacity of 35x45 feet, and is equipped with a complete 
assortment of type— modern, antique, plain and fancy— new and 
improved machinery, and everything necessary for successfully 
carrying on the printing business. Anything in the shape of print- 
ing, from a card to a book, can be procured here in a short space 
of time, executed in the most artistic manner, and at reasonable 
charges. A specialty is made of commercial work— the printing 
of cards, note and letter headings, memoranda forms, bill heads, 
catalogues, circulars, h.andbills, checks, delivery notes, etc. An 
efficient staff of operatives is in service, and the patronage is 



drawn from the leading mercantile houses in the city. Under its 
proprietor's able management this house has taken a most credit- 
able position in the trade. Mr. Schofield is a Bostonian by birth. 

MISS A, M. GENDRON. Photographer. No. 13 Tremont Row. 
—Among the foremost exponents of the photographic art 
in tliis city may be mentioned the name of Miss A. M. 
Gendron.the talented artist, who has won an enduring 
reputation for skill and ability in her profession— few better in 
Boston ; the cabinet photos, at $2.00 and $2.50 per dozen made in 
this studio, being pictures of exceptional merit. Miss Gendron, 
who is a young lady of energy and excellent business qualifica- 
tions, as well as a thoroughly iiractical and expert photographer, 
has been established something over two years, and from the first 
she has received a very fiattering share of recognition. The 
premises occupied, including reception parlor, studio, operating 
room, etc., are neatly appointed and completely equipped in every 
respect, all the latest improved appliances, apparatus and general 
appurtenances being in service, while five competent assistants 
are in regular attendance also. Photography in all its branches is 
executed in the highest style of the art, at extremely moderate 
prices: fine portraits being a leading specialty, while crayon, 
pastel, India ink and kindred artistic work is attended to likewise 
in the most prompt and excellent manner; the pictures leaving 
this establishment being first-class in every feature of merit— in 
beauty of design, execution, fidelity and finish. 

J MURRAY HOWE, Real Estate Agent and Broker, No. 5 Court 
Street.— In the line of real esLate, oneof the most succe-ssf ill 
men in tlie city is Mr. J. Murray Howe, whose handsome 
offiees are at No. 5 Court Street, corner of Washington Street. 
This business was established by Mr. Howe in 1879, and has been 
conducted with the greatest ability and energy from the start. Mr. 
Howe handles all kinds ot real estate in town and country, buying, 
selling and exchanging, procures loans on bond and mortgage, 
manages esLites, and is a general real estate agent and broker. He] 
makes a specialty of Cambridge property, with wliich he is inti-' 
mately acquainted, and has been one ot the largest dealers in realty 
in that fiourishing suburb. He also deals very largely in seashore 
lands, especially those on the Maine coast, which offer beautiful 
building sites for summer homes. Mr. Howe's judgment in regard 
to the value of Boston property is appreciated by a large number of 
owners and speculators in the city, who consult him in every im- 
portant transaction they undertake. He is a native of Brookline, 
lives at Milton, and is highly esteemed by all with whom he has 
come in contact. 

ST. SH.VRP. Custom House, Foreign Exchange and Insurance 
Broker, No. 44 Kilby Street.— For many years S. T. Sharp, 
J the well-known custom-house, foreign exchange and insur- 
ance broker, has been actively engaged in this line ot busi- 
ness. Mr. Sharp, prior to starting in business on his own account 
had been employed in a responsible position in the banking 
house of Kidder, Peabody & Co., for about twelve years. Mr. 
Sharp attends to everything comprehended in custom house brok- 
ing, and has a complete knowledge of every feature and detail 
connected therewith, merchandise being pushed through and for- 
warded to destination with despatch. He also negotiates foreign 
exchange, while insurance is placed with first-class comi)anies at 
the lowest rates, and all business entrusted to this gentleman is 
certain to be attended to in tlie most prompt and satisfactory 
manner. 

WF. PAUL. Foreign and Domestic Paper Stock, No. 18 
Post Office Square, Room A.— Mr. W. F. Paul, whole- 
sale commission dealer in foreign and domestic paper 
stock, has, for a period of twenty years, conducted 
business in this line with uniform success. Mr. Paul, who is an 
old and respected Boston merchant, is a man in the prime of life, 
active and energetic, with some twenty odd years exjierience in 
this line. He handles everything in the line ot foreign and do- 
mestic paper stock, but chiefiy rags, while he m.akes a siiecialty of 
new cuttings, which he sells to the mills throughout New Eng- 
land; and is prepared to fill all orders for anything in the paper 
stock line in the most prompt and reliable manner. 



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GEO. F. STRATTON, Western MouUliiiys, No. 78 Portland 
Street.— Western manufacturers of mouldings have an active 
and vigilant representative in Boston and New England in 
tlie person of Mr. George F. Stratton of this eity. He is the 
New England agent for the following firms: Leonard Laurense & 
Co., Detroit, Mich , prepared mouldings and liaclting ; the Adley 
Manufacturing Company, Chicago, III., plain and ornamented hard 
woods and California walnut; tlie Adam J. Press Manufacturing 
Company, Chicago, 111. comp. gold land bronze mouldings; CO. 
Baxter & Co , St. Louis, Mo., plain and ornamented room niould- 
nigs. Mr. Stratton was formerly for eight years in the service of 
jMessrs. Leonard Laurense & Co., and in February, 1888, 
established his present agency, which has been attended 
by the most satisfactory and encouraging results. He 
keeps in stock a full line of samples from the above 
well-known manufacturers. Combined they form the most 
extensive and complete line ever shown in the city of Boston, and 
include ornamented hardwood mouldings, plain and antique oak 
mouldings, cherry and mahogany mouldings, composition gold 
mouldings, electro bronze mouUlings. imitation ebony and gilt 
mouldings, California walnut mouldings, imitation oak and cherry 
mouldings, imitation rosewood and walnut mouldings, imitation 
hardwood mouldings, velvet and plush linings, composition gold 
and bronze linings bronze and gilt back mouldings, plain and sten- 
cilled linings, plain silver and patent gilt mouldings, mouldings for 
house decoration, pl.ain and bamboo beads, panel, angle and beam 
mouldings; birch bark, bamboo and palm mouldings; chair-rails 
and cornice mouldings, hardwood room mouldings, ornamented 
and plain gilt mouldings, anticpie bronze mouldings, bamboo and 
palm pattern mouldings.burnislied copper mouldings, olain mould- 
ings and linings in the white, ornamented linings in the white, car 
beads and mouldings in the white, hardwood mouldings in tlie 
white, finished carandcasketmouldings, Leonard Laurensel&Co.'s 
soft and seasoned Michigan pine backing, L. L. & Co. 's patent look- 
ing-gl.-iss backs, L. L ACo.'s cutelmbackingfor shippers' use. He 
travels throughout all sections of the New England States, and ord- 
ers are shipped direct from tlie mills promptly. The trade Is ex- 
clusively of a wholesale character. Mr. Stratton was born in Eng- 
land, and has resided in the United States for the p.ist fourteen 
years. 

BASTEY & SUTHERLAND, Manufacturers of and De.-ilers in 
Harnesses, Saddles, Russet Reins, and Horse Clothing, Etc., 
No. 103 Portland Street.— This popular and prosperous firm 
was established something over one year ago, and were 
formerly located at No. 234 State Street, whence they moved to the 
present commodious quarters a few months since. They occupy 
here a compact store and shop, employing two experienced hands, 
and keep constantly in stock a full and fine assortment of light 
and heavy harnesses, saddles, bridles, collars, russet reins, liorse 
boots, leather specialties, blankets, robes, whips, carriage wasliers, 
sponges, combs and kindred articles. Harnesses and saddles are 
made to order likewi.se in the most expeditious and excellent man- 
ner, fine custom work being a specialty, while repairing is neatly 
and promptly executed also, and all work done by this reliable 
firm is fully warranted to render satisfation. Messrs. J. A. Bastey 
and W. A. Sutherland, who are both Nova Scotians by birth, but 
several years in Boston, are practical and expert harness makers, 
of ample experience, and are thnroui.h masters of their .art in all 
its branches. 

J P. HAWES, Broker in Fertilizers, No. 54 Kilby Street.— 
Among those contributing most largely to the sum of com- 
I mercial activity in this line in Boston, may be mentioned 
the name of J. P. Hawes, tlie well-known broker in fertiliz- 
ei"s, whose business connection extends all over the Atlantic Coast 
and throughout the British Provinces, with some export also to Eur- 
ope. Mr. Hawes, who is a native of this city, is a gentleman of 
thorough experience in this line, and prior to starting in business 
on his own account, twelve years ago. had been a member of the 
firm of A. F. Turner, Jr., & Co. Mr. Hawes does a general brokerage 
in fertilizer stock, buying for and sellingto manufacturers on com- 
mission, and is prepared to fill all orders for anything in this line 
in the most prompt and reliable manner; while his tr.ade, which is 
Inige and active, iiffords evidence of steady increase. 



J.M. RUSSELL, Publisher of Sheet Music and Russell's Musi- 
cal Library, No. 10 Hamilton Place.— One of the most popu- 
^ lar among the many attractive business houses in this city, 
is that of Mr. ,1. M. Russell, publisher of sheet music and 
Russel's Musical Library, wliich is at No. 10 Hamilton Place. Mr. 
Russel has been engaged in this line of business over thirty-five 
years, and previous to locating in this city in 1857, carried on quite 
an extensive establishment in New York. The business he is now 
conducting, was founded by Gilmore& Russell on Court Street, and 
afterwards continued by J. M. Russell & Co., for many years at 
No. 126 Tremont Street. About six years ago it came under the 
sole control of Mr. Russell, who has since carried it on with marked 
success and ability, and in 1887 removed to the very commodious, 
desirable premises now occupied, wliich have an area of 25x60 feet. 
Mr. Russell makes a fine display of music, and publishes and has 
on sale all the new sheet music and instruction books, and musical 
merchandise generally, and also plain and ornamental picture 
frames of every description. He is one of the leading representa- 
tives in this line in the city, and controls besides a first-class city 
custom, a large influential business throughout the New England, 
United States and Canada, where Russell's Musical Library lias an 
immense sale. Born and brouglit up in Vermont, Mr. Russell is 
held in higli regard, and is very popular as a music dealer and 
publisher, and as a useful, influential citizen. Three clerks assist 
him in his business oper.ations. 

E.\LLEN & CO., Woolens, No. 34 Harrison .^^ venue Extension.— 
—Tlie business of this house is now being managed by the 
third gener.ation of the Allen family. It was originally 
founded in 1828 by Mr. E. Allen, and after his deatli it was 
conducted by his sons, and since 1884 his grandsons, Messrs. F. P. 
and W. E. Allen, who were born and reared in the business, 
have been the proprietors. Throughout its long career, this house 
has been distinguished ,as a leader in its line of trade. The firm 
occupy one of the finest business establishments on the avenue, 
tlieir salesroom having an area of 40x150 feet. It is handsomely fit- 
ted up and admirably lighted, while for variety, freshness and 
completeness of assortment, the stock of woolens here displayed 
has few equals, and no superiors, in America. The firm m,ake a 
prominent specialty of imjiorting the finest lines of foreign goods 
and handle the out-put of many of our leading domestic manufac- 
turers, and do a trade whicli literally extends throughout the en- 
tire United States. A staff of experienced travelers is kept on the 
the road, while a large force of clerks, salesmen, packers, etc., is 
employed on the premises. The proprietors have vast practical 
experience at their command, and a perfect knowledge of the 
wants of the trade in its every detail. The firm are noted for their 
honorable business metliods and enterprise, and enjoy a wide- 
spread popularity. 

FP. JEWETT, Coffee Broker, No. 24M Central Street.— 
Viewed from a commercial standpoint, there are but few 
J among the great staple food products entering into gen- 
eral consumption of greater importance tlian coffee. The 
transactions in the raw bean in the course of a year in this city 
represents many millions of dollars, while the volume of business 
grows apace annually. The traflic in this article of commerce on 
the Boston Market through the medium of the broker is of very 
extensive proportions; and among tliose contributing most largely 
to the sum of activity in this line here can be named F. P. Jewett. 
the popular and responsible coffee broker of No. 24>i Central 
Street. None engaged in the business in Boston sustains a higher 
reputation in the trade, and few enjoy a larger measure of recog- 
nition ; having .an active and substantial business connection with 
wholesale dealers and jobbers to whom he sells for importers. 
Tills well and favorably known house was established in 1865 by 
D. E. Jewett, (deceased,) wlio conducted the same up to 1885, when 
owing to his death which occurred at this period, the business 
passed into the control of his son and successor, the gentleman- 
whose name heads the sketch, and under whose judicious manage- 
ment it has since been continued with uninterrupted success, Mr. 
F. P. Jewett, is a gentleman of strict probity in his business 
relations, as well as a young man of energy, sagacity and thorough 
experience in the colfee tr.ade. and maintains an Al standing in 
coniniercial life. 



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JKARDI & CO., Manufacturers ot Moorish and Nubian Fig- 
ures. No. 145 Cliarlestown Street.— It is a matter of interest 
to trace tlie careers ot many of tlie ieading Italian citizens 
of Boston. Mr. Nardi is a native of sunny Italy, and in 1873, 
came to the United States to try his fortune and better his condi- 
tion, which he has succeeded in doing. He first established him- 
self in business in New York city, and in 1876 removed to Boston 
and began the manufacture of Moorish and Nubian liguies at No. 
68 Leverett Street. In May, 1888, he removed therefrom to his pres- 
ent location, where he occupies a four story building, 20x80 feet 
in dimensions. This is equipped with all necessary mechanical 
appliances for the successful carrying on of the business, and em- 




ployment is afli>i(led to from six to ti.Mi hands in making all kinds 
of small clay statues, and particularly Moorish and Nubian fig- 
ures, decorated in the most artistic colors, H,aving every facility 
for economical production, .and in service the most talented and 
experienced .artists, the firm are not only able to compete success- 
fully in point of quality with imported goods of this class, butto 
offer their manufactures at .less than half the prices paid for for- 
eign made figures. A large assortment of subjects is kept con- 
stantly in stock, and the trade, which is of a wholesale character, 
extends to all parts of the United States and Canada. The flrni 
are to be complimented upon the success achieved. 

TARBOX & CLARKE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Flour, 
Grain and Hay, Nos. 66 and 68 Commercial Street.— In 1885 
Mr. George W. Tarliox, who is a native of Newburypovt 
Mass., formed a iKirtnership with Mr. Greenleaf Clarke 
a n.ative and resident of Atkinson, N. H., and the enterprise h.as 
resulted in a greater expansion of trade, for whicli the firm have 
excellent facilities and business relations of a most .advantageous 
character. They are members of the Chamber of Commerce, and 
occupy for the purposes ot their basiness three floors, each pos- 
sessing a capacity of 25x75 feet. A very heavy stock of grain and 
hay is carried, and in tliese commodities the sales are of a jobbing 
ch.ar.acter, a specialty being made ot car-load lots. Their dis- 
tributing trade extends to .all parts of New England, and they are 
in a position to offer to ilealers goods and prices that cannot be 
surpassed, if equaled, in this market. 



JOHN HOLMAN & CO., Bedding and Bed Lounges, Etc., No. 
188 Hanover Street, corner Cross Street.— One ot the most 
reliable and extensive manufacturing establishments of the 
kind in Boston, is that of Messrs. John Holnian & Co., manu- 
facturers of spring m.attresses, bedding, etc., whose office, factory 
and salesroom are located on Hanover Street. This business was 
established in 1859 by John Holm.an, who eventually admitted his 
sons Mr. John C. Holinan in 1878, and Mr. W. A. Holinan in 1880. 
In 1885 Mr. John C. Holinan retired and in 1886 Mr. John Holman 
the founder died after a long, honorable .and successful career. 
He was succeeded by the present firm, the copartners being 
Messrs. W. A. Holman and E. D. Lacount. The premises occupied 
are sp.acious and well equipped and comprise the basement of 
three adjoining buildings, and tlie four upper Boors. The firm in 
the various departments of their business employ fifty skilled 
operatives. They manufacture all kinds ot bedding, bed lounges, 
fine hair mattresses, upholstered spring beds, etc. Tliey also keep 
in stock feathers, curled luair, tickings, buriaps.extra purified feath- 
ers and patent down pillows. At their mill in Reading, Mass., they 
make all their bed lounge frames, etc. All the goods turned out 
by this responsible house are unrivalled for quality, utility, relia- 
bility and excellence, and have no superiors in this city or else- 
where, while the prices quoted in all cases tor all kinds of bedding 
are extremely moderate. The salesrooms are always filled with 
a heavy stock ot choice goods, and all orders are promptly filled, 
while all bedding, m.attresses, etc., are fully wiirranted to be 
exiictlyas represented. Mr. Holman is a native of Cambridge, 
Mass., while Mr. Lacount w.as born in Spencer, Mass. The part- 
ners are highly respected in conimerci.al circles, attend personally 
to the direction of their affairs, and are widely known for their 
honorable and liberal business policy. 

LW. PICKENS, Proprietor of the West Boston Planing and 
Moulding Mill, Etc., No. ',10 Beverly Street.— The enter- 
I prise so successfully conducted by Mr. L. W. Pickens, as 
proprietor of the West Boston Plaining and Moulding 
Mill, was originally established in 1864, at the corner of Causeway 
and Merrimac Streets, and was removed to the present site in 1887. 
The premises here occupied comprise four floors, 22x60 feet each, 
thoroughly equipped with the latest improved woodworking 
machinery, operated by steam power, and steady employment is 
provided for a large force ot skilled .and experienced workmen. 
The principal business to winch attention is devoted is the manu- 
facture ot every description ot mouldings used by builders, to- 
gether with window frames, and a valuable line of inside and-out- 
side ornamental finish, suited to the requirements ot the tr.ade 
and the public, and which, by reason of its superior excellence in 
both material and workmansliip. is in heavy and influential 
demand in this city and throughout all the surrounding country. 
The facilities here possessed for the prompt execution of orders 
.and commissions are of the most complete and perfect character; 
the lumber is received direct from the forests and first hands, and 
prices are placed at the lowest point of moderation. Success 
which is well deserved h.as crowned the eftorts of the proprietor 
in catering to the demands of his patrons in this direction of 
trade. Mr. Pickens is a, native of Midilleboro, Mass., a resident ot 
Somerville, .and eminently popular in tins city as an accomplished, 
reliable and substantial business man. 

AG. HADLEY, Stair Builder, No. 23 Beverly Street.— Stair 
building has now become a separ.ate and distinct branch 
of industry, and one of the oldest and most prominent 
leaders in this, line is Mr. A. G. H.adley, whose establish- 
ment is located at No 2.5 Beverly .Street. This gentleman h.as been 
in business in this line tor ui)wards of thirty years, and is widely 
known among builders ami architects .as an expert. He occupiesa 
commodious, well-equipped worksliop. and h.as in service con- 
stantly an adeqii.ate force of experienced workmen. Specimens of 
his work are to be found in the houses on Fifth Avenue, NewYork; 
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in that city; Parker House, Boston, 
Tremont Temple. Boston, etc. The patronage is large and influen- 
tial, and Mr. Hadley is prompt .and reliable in the carrying out of 
.all contracts. He is a native of Boston and .a resident of Arling- 
ton, and a popular business man well liked by all who come in 
contact witli hini. 



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RUGGLES & BUSS, Commission Merchants in Grain and Mill 
Stuffs, No. 16 Broad Street.— Althougli establislied in busi- 
ness as a co-partnership but a comparatively short time, 
Messrs. Ruggles & Buss, the well-known commission mer- 
chants and shippers' agents tor the sale of grain and mill-stulfs. 
No. 16 Broad Street, liave long been engaged separately in tliis 
branch of commercial activity, and are well and favorably known 
In the trade. F. H. Ruggles and H. L. Buss, who compose the hrm, 
are both gentlemen of ample experience and thorougl\ responsibil- 
ity, as well as men of energy and sagacity, and are prominent 
members of the Chamber of Commerce. After conducting busi- 
ness, eacli on liis own account, for over ten years, they consoli- 
dated in 18S5, and the unequivocal success that has attended their 
joint efforts from the first abundantly attests the wisdom that in- 
spired the venture. The Arm carry on a general commission busi- 
ness in corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye meal, mill-feed, etc., selling 
on the Boston market in carload lots exclusively ; and are agents 
for W. P. Harvey & Co., Chicago; Harper & Co., Peoria, 111.; F.H. 
Pavey, Mineapolis, Minn.; H.F.Shaffer, Dayton, Ohio, and Durant, 
Elmore & Bliss, of Albany, N. Y. The trans.actions of this popular 
and responsible firm are conducted on strict business principles, 
and all orders placed with these gentlemen are certain to be at- 
tended to in the most expeditious and satisfactory manner ; wlnle 
the tr.ide of the concern, which is very active, gives evidence of 
steady and substantial increase. 

ALEXANDER MCDONALD, Manufacturer of Trunks, Bags, 
Etc.. No. 11 School .Street.— For more than tiiirty-six 
years the productions of Alexander McDonald, the well 
known trunk and traveling bag manufacturer, of No. 11 
School Street, have been noted for their excellence. The goods 
turned out by this gentleman are of a very superior character, be- 
ing neat ill design, strong in construction, reliable, and of first-class 
workmanship and material ; and for general excellence are not 
surpassed by any articles of the kind produced to-day in Boston. 
Mr. McDonald was born in Montreal, but has been in this city up- 
ward of forty years; being one of the oldest (in point of priority) 
In his line in Boston. He is a practical and expert workman him- 
self, of long and varied experience, in the exercise of his art 
having been establislied in business since 1W2, and from this 
period to the present day he has enjoyed a highly flatter- 
ing patronage, his trade coming principally from the wealthy 
residents of the Back Bay district. He occupies a neat 25x80 
foot store, with factory on third floor, and employs several 
skilled workmen; only fine goods being manufactured. The 
productions include sole-leather trunks, overland trunks, 
light French trunks, continental trunks, ladies' trunks, gentle- 
men's trunks, tlieatrical trunks, and trunks of every size, shape, 
style and variety ; also the Gladstone, Harvard and Oxford bags, 
portmanteaus,valises, satchels and leather specialties, while repair- 
ing is neatly and promptly executed also, at reasonable rates; all 
work done here being warranted to render satisfaction. 

JOHN J.RI.^K, Blacksmith and Wheelwright. Nos.63 and 67Bev- 
erly Street.— .\mong those prominently identified with the 
trade of tlie blacksmith and wlieehvright, we desire to call at- 
tention to Mr. John J. Rink, who has been established in the 
business since 1878, and for four years w as a member of the firm of 
Eink& Sawyer, whom he succeeded and has continued to conduct it 
and has achieved a high reputation for the standard character of the 
work he turns out. He manufactures all kinds of ligiit and heavy 
wagons which are tlioroughly constructed and finely finished and 
are fully equal in every respect to the best made in the city 
Blacksmitliing in all its branches and making to order carriage and 
wagon iron and wood work and repairing receives Mr. Rink's atten- 
tion, and all his worlds fully guaranteed. He is well-known in this 
community as an expert blacksmith and wheelwright and builder 
of wagons, and is doing a first-class substantial business. He em- 
ploys five .skilled, practical workmen and occupies commodious 
premises consisting of a blacksmith sliop 20.x70 feet in area, and a 
wheelwriglit shop adjoining, 20x35 feet in size, which are well 
equipped in every respect and replete with all appliances for ren- 
dering the work executed of an enduring character. Mr. Rink is 
a native of Germany, but for many years has resided in this 
country and is well known in his line in Boston. 



WM. A. SMITH, Importer of Diamonds, No. 383 Washington 
Street.- This gentleman is a connoisseur and expert of 
wide celebrity, and is recognized by the trade as one of 
the finest judges of diamonds in America. Heisa native 
of Cambridge, Mass., identified with this specl.al branch of trade 
since 1851, and established his present enterinise here in 1861. In 
gems and stones of worth, in which this liouse maybe said to be 
second to none in the Western Hemisphere, the display made is 
one of the largest and choicest on this side of the Atlantic. Dia- 
mond and emerald, ruby and beryl, opal and pearl, sard and peri- 
dot, jacinth and spinel, topaz and turquoise— all these and more 
" captain Jewels in the carcanct " are fittingly represented. Here 
are diamonds in all conceivable shapes, of unequalled whiteness 
and clearness, and of absolute faultlessness, gems of purest ray ser- 
ene— riviere solitaire, cluster and pendant, panache and aigrette, 
necklace and bracelet, chains, earrings and chatelaines ; in f,act, 
every article for personal adornment meets theeyeand delights 
the sight. With the assistance of a number of highly skilled arti- 
sans, diamond jewelry is here produced to order of a character un- 
surpassed by the best houses in Pans or London; while loose stones 
are purchased and set in the best manner, after the most approved 
fashion, and in original designs. Many matched stones of rare 
beauty are here exhibited, which cannot be readily duplicated. Of 
one thing Mr. Smith justly boasts, and that is of the fact that none 
but genuine articles are kept at his establishment. The goods of 
this representative house go to all parts of the country, and its 
trade is especially heavy and valuable throughout New England. 
Mr. Smith enjoys a national reputation as a leader in the trade. 

CURTIS CLARK, Fire, Marine and Accident Insurance, No. 
85 Water Street.— The very best channel through which to 
effect fire insunance in this city is that afforded by Mr. Curtis 
Clark, as he, represents some of the strongest and wealthiest 
companies in the world, quotes reasonable rates of premium, and 
guarantees the prompt and liberal adjustment of all losses. Witii- 
out reflecting in any way upon other offices, it is but just to .say 
tliat Mr. Clark has secured a leading position in his line, and now, 
after being in business for twenty-eight years.en joys the respect and 
esteem of all classes of property-holders, and a connection and pa- 
tronage of the most influential character. He is an agent and 
broker for fire, marine and accident insurance. Mr. Clark places 
his risks with the best class of companies at the minimum rates. 
His forms for policies are clearly worded, explicit, and devoid of 
technicalities. He gives personal attention to all losses sustained 
by his customers, which are honorably adjusted and promptly 
paid. He controls the insuring of important lines of business, resi- 
dential and manufacturing property.stocks of merchandise, leases, 
rents, and household effects, and is steadily extending his circle of 
customers in the city and country. Heisa recognized authority 
in his line, and has a thorough knowledge of every department of 
tlie business, rendering him eminently safe asan agent or broker 
while he is a prominent member of the Boston Underwriters' As- 
sociation. Mr. Clark w.as born in Jefferson County, N. Y., 
and settled in Boston in 1880, and is recognized as one of its solid, 
substantial citizens and representative business men. 

CARTER'S BAND. T. M. Carter, Leader, Office, No. 179 Wa-sh- 
ington Street, Over Thompson and Odell's Music Store.— 
Probably not one among Boston's many excellent bands is 
maintained at a higher degree of excellence than Carter's 
Military Band and Orchestra. It is one of the best equipped 
and most popular organizations of the kind in this city, and 
receives a highly fiattering patronage. This band was organ- 
ized in 1871, .and during the nearly eighteen years since in- 
tervening it has steadily grown in favor, furnishing music 
throughout the whole of the New England States, except Connec- 
ticut. The organization comprises twenty-five members, among 
them many expert performers, while the leader is a cornet player 
and violinist of Al repute. Military and orchestral music is fur- 
nished for all occasions— pariides, balls, parties, etc.— in first-class 
style .at reasonable rates, and satisfaction guaranteed in every in- 
stance, instructions on tlie cornet, violin and other instruments 
being given also at moderate terms. Mr. Carter, the efficient 
leader and manager, is a native of New Hampshire, but has lived 
in Boston upward of twenty-five years. 



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THOMAS J. GRAHAM & CO., Mamifactiiieis and Wholesale 
Dealers in Trunks, Bags and Umbrellas,Nos.44 aiuU6 Lincoln 
Street.— Tlie manufacture of trunks, l)ags, valises and kin- 
dred goods is an industry of no mean importance, and it is one of 
an indispensable cliaracter. In this line of enterprise Boston has 
long held a leading position, and the industry is one which is con- 
stantly undergoing expansion. Among the most energetic and suc- 
cessful firms in tliis line that of Messrs. Thomas J. Graham & Co., 
ofNos.44and46LincolnStreet, is deserving of special mention. The 
business was organized in 1883 under the style of Byrne, Graham 
& Co. In August, IS&5, Mr. Byrne died, and since then the enter- 
prise h.as been continued by Mr. Graham under the style which 
forms the caption of this sketch. The premises occupied are very 
commodious, consisting of a live-story buililing. 30x72 feet in 
dimensions. The upper floors are devoted to mannfactuiing and 
stor,age, and here some twenty-tive hands are employed constantly 
The manufacturing department is equipped with all the newest 
and best modern mechanical appliances and here are made to 
order and for stock trunks, bags and sample cases of every de- 
scription, while special attention is given to all kinds of repair 
work. The stock carried is a very extensive and comprehensive 
one and embraces an almost endless varietyof trunks, bags and 
umbrellas. The trade is wholesale and retail. The business of 
the house is mainly confined to the New England States, but the 
firm send many of their trunks and leather bags In alligator and 
other fancy leathers to distant parts of the Union and to Canada, 
They make a specialty of light theatre trunks for traveling. The 
prosperous career of this house is an evidence ol the just policy 
upon which the business Is conducted and Mr. (iraham, who is a 
native of this city, is one of our most esteemed merchants. 

SAMUEL HATCH & CO , Auctioneers, No 9 Congress Street.— 
An old established, popular and responsible firm of auc- 
tioneers in this city is that of Samuel Hatch & Co , Whose 
office is located at No, 9 Congress Street, and whicli for up- 
ward of half a century has maintained an enduring hold on pub- 
lic favor and confidence. This is, in fact, the oldest firm of the 
kind now in existence in Boston, and has a large, active and per- 
manent patronage, fully sustaining its old-time reputation for in- 
tegrity and reliability. This fiourishing business was established 
in 1838 by the present senior member, who conducted it alone up 
to 1868, when he .associated with him in partnership Francis .S. 
Tent, who was connected with the concern for fifteen years pre- 
viously, while Edward Hatch (nephew of the founder) was admitted 
Into the firm in 1876. No house in this line in the city maintains a 
higher standing in commercial and financial circles, as few if any 
receive a more liberal share of merited recognition, its business 
already of a very substantial character, growing apace annually. 
They conduct a general auctioneering business, selling houses, 
building lots, farms, and city and suburban property of all kinds; 
also household effects, furniture, stocks and merchandise of every 
description, special attention being given to sale of real estate 
and business chances. All sales entrusted to this firm are certain 
to be handled in Hie most judicious and satisfactory manner Tlie 
operations of the house are carried on a large scale. Mr. Hatch 
having made one sale of real estate of over one million dollars. 
Tlie Messrs. Hatch and Mr. Tent, are all natives of Boston, are 
gentlemen of the highest personal integrity as well as men of 
thorough experience, sagacity and energy, and are well and 
favorably known in the community 

JOHN B. BUKKE, Undertaker and Enibalmer, Oftice and Ware- 
rooms. No. 60 Leverett Street.— This gentleman has been in 
business at his present location for the past eighteen years, 
.and his career has been one of uninterrupted success. He is 
the accomplished master of his vocation, and is eminently qualified 
in every way to render the most satisfiictory and finished service 
He occupies a handsomely furnished store .and office, 22x40 feet in 
dimensions, and here he has at all times a large and carefully 
selected stock of coffins, caskets, metallic burial cases and funeral 
merchandise in general, suited to all means and tastes ; the assort- 
ment, in fact, being one of the most desirable and comprehensive 
to be found anywhere. Mr. Burke has every facility and conven- 
ience for the successful prosecution of the business, furnishes 
everything required for the plainest or most imposing ceremonies. 



takes charge of tlie dead, and superintends every detail of the last 
sad rites of burial, and the aflileted have always a melancholy 
pleasure in securing the professional services of this considerate 
gentleman. Mr. Burke is an experienced and competent em. 
b.aliner, is skilful and precise, and preserves bodies entrusted to 
his care tor any required period. His charges are always reason 
able and just. He has not only a large city, but an extensive 
suburban patronage, and can always be relied upon for prompt 
and effective service. He is aided by competent assistants, and 
his ofiice is kept open at all hours. Mr. Burke is a native of this 
city 



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\.. H. LEA VITT,Ph.G.,Pharmacist,No.65 Cambridge Street, 
and Nos. 27and 29 Charles Street.— The well known popu- 
lar pharmacy, located on the corner of Cambridge and 
Chambers Street, is one of the oldest drug stores in the 
city. The business was founded as far back as 1802 by Mr. Daniel 
Henchman, who, in 1878, was succeeded by his son, Mr. Russell B. 
Henchman. From the latter Mr. M. L. H. Leavitt purchased the 
business in the spring of 1888, and has since fully maintained the 
high reputation the establishment has so long enjoyed. In 1886 
Mr. Leavitt also purchased from Mr. Ellis the noted drug store at 
Nos. 27 and 29 Charles Street, and he is now conducting both estab- 
lishments witli marked success. Both stores are of ample dimen- 
sions, are h.andsomely and attractively fitted up and appointed, 
and are provided with every appliance and convenience for the 
successful prosecution of the business carried on. Each store 
contains a full and complete and carefully selected stock of fresh, 
pure drugs and chemicals, proprietary preparations and medicines 
of acknowledged merit, and a fine assortment of toilet accessories, 
fancy articles and druggists' sundriesot every description. Special 
attention is given to compounding physlcLans' prescriptions and 
family recipes, every care being taken to secure accuracy, while 
only the purest drugs are used Duly qualified assistants are em 
ployed and Mr. Leavitt exercises a close surveillance over every 
department of his business. He is a native of Portland, Me., and 
is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. 

ATROEDER, Eliot Loan Company. No. 67 Eliot .Street.— The 
business of making advances on collateral is conducted 
^ in a liberal, honorable manner by tli& Eliot Loan Co. 
Mr Troeder, who has the entire charge of the business, 
is well known in this community, and numbers among his patrons 
many of the leading citizens. He is an experienced, practical 
business man and has been established in the loan business since 
1872. The premises occupied are very commodious and neatly 
fitted up. As a merheandise and money broker, Mr. Troeder 
makes liberal advances on diamonds, watches, and all kinds of 
goods and personal property, and watclies and diamonds are sold 
for half their value, and in his transactions Mr. Troeder will be 
found upright and square. He is from Amsterdam, Holland, and 
came to this country In 1862, and during his long residence in Bos- 
ton has acquired a wide reputation as an honorable business man 
and useful citizen. He always has a number ol unredeemed 
pledges to dispose of and can offer the very best inducements to 
tliose who will call upon him. 

MRS H. SPRAGUE, Dry and Fancy Goods, Etc., No. 95 Green 
Street —One of the most enterprising and best conducted 
houses in its line in the west end of Boston, is that of Mrs, 
H Sprague, dealer in dry and fancy goods, millinery, etc. 
Mrs. Sprague who had a long experience in the trade and was well 
qualified by her natural .aptitude to conduct a first-class business, 
opened the establishment in February. 188.'>. and from the first was 
successful in drawing a large custom. She occupies a handsome 
corner store of ample dimensions 40x20 feet in extent and fitted up 
throughout in a manner to display to the best advantage, the 
varied and first class stock she carries on the premises. Besides a, 
splendid line of the finest millinery which she has always made a 
specialty of, Mrs. Sprague keeps everything in dry and fancy 
goods, under-wear, gents' furnishing articles, smallwares, plated 
Jewelry, etc., and makes a specialty .as well of stamping and 
stamping materials, while she is also agent for the Troy Ijaundry 
Mrs. Sprague does an extensive business and employs from five to 
eight .assistants. 



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RG. CHASE & CO., Propr'sof The Chase Nui-series, New Eng- 
land Office, No. 23 Pembei-ton Square.— Among the reliable 
J nurseries of the United States, very prominent are those 
of which Messrs. R. G. Chase & Co. are the popular pro- 
prietors. Tlie firm's nurseries and packing grounds, which have 
an area of 170 acres are located at Geneva, N. Y., and the house has 
likewise branches in Philadelphia and Boston, its New England 
office being at No. 2.3 Pemberton Square. This extensive business 
was established thirty-five years ago at Geneva, N. Y., and tlie 
Boston branch was opened in 1868. The members of tliis copart- 
nership are Messrs. Roscoe G., Howard A. and George H. Cliase, 
all of whom are thoroughly practical nurserymen. Mr. Roscoe G. 
Chase has ctiarge of the nurseries at Geneva, N. Y., Mr. Howard A. 
Cliase of tlie Phil.adelphia and Mr. George H. Chase of the Boston 
branch. The firm keep constantly on hand large supplies of all 
kinds of fruit and ornamental trees, vines, evergreen and hardy 
flowering shrubs, ro.ses, hardy plants, bnlbs, etc. Messrs. R. G. 
Chase & Co. do not claim to sell clieaper than other firms, but 
they do assert, th.at quality of stock considered (with the care 
exercised in packing and delivering) they are not undersold by 
any responsible concern. They likewise claim that wherever 
Geneva trees have been fairly compared with trees from eastern 
or southern nurseries, they have plainly shown tlieir superiority. 
The reason of this is to be found, not only in the increased care 
and attention which competition always brings and the improve- 
ments which experience suggests, but in the fact that— first, the 
Geneva soil is sufficiently strong to grow trees without the 
application of strong fertilizers ; second, the climate is so natural 
tor producing healthy timber that a tree attains the age of three 
or four years perfectly healthy, and with vitality enough to be 
transplanted into the most fickle climate with perfect safety. 
Western N?w York is pre-eminently suited for growing healthy 
trees, and the fact tiiat a large percentage of the trees planted in 
the country are grown within fifty miles of Geneva, demonstrates 
that this section is well adapted to the business. Every section in 
tlie country is suited for something, some for sweet potatoes, 
others for tobacco. Geneva is the place for raising young trees. 
Messrs. R. G. Cli.ase & Co. are very particular to liave tlieir agents 
offer only those varieties of tree that do best in the section where 
they are selling. With the care they exercise in classifying for the 
dilterent sections, a customer in New England or Maryland can 
make his selection of varieties with the same assurance of getting 
those best adapted to his partiular latitude, as one living in 
Geneva. This responsible firm employs only flrst-class men as 
agents, who will do justice to patrons and the house. 

ISBUEGH & CO., Carriage Dealers, Nos. 8, 10 and 12 East Street 
and No. 205 Essex Street.— The most popular source of supply 
for fine carriages of every description, and the best-known 
market for both horses, carriages and harness at auction, in 
this city, is the establishment of Messrs. Isburgh & Co. This 
enterprise was founded in 1853, by Messrs. Isburgh & Rowland, 
who were succeeded by the present firm in 1879. Their motto is 
"justice to owners, protection to buyers. " The premises occupied 
for;the business cover an area of 80x200 feet, and comprise a fine 
brick structure, extending through the block, and having three 
stones on East and one story on E.ssex Street; affording ample 
conveniences for the prosecution of the business. Here is 
exhibited one of the largest and finest assortments of vehicles to 
be seen in all New England, embracing all the latest novelties 
from the principal manufacturers of the country, including new 
designs in six-seat rockaways, coupe rockaways, carryalls, beach 
wagons, Goddard buggies, phaetons in great variety, side-bar top 
buggies, piano-box open wagons, Concord wagons, pony phaetons, 
landaus, coaches, surries, barouches, road wagons and track 
sulkies. The proprietors take a proper pride in maintaining 
their house at the head of the trade, laboring assiduouslyto that 
end, and only ask an opportunity to compete with other dealers 
and to demonstrate in that way their ability to confer benefits in 
all respects equal to any, either as regards style, quality, finish or 
price. Regular auction sales are held every Saturday, at a. 
m. for the disposal of horses, carriages and harnesses to the highest 
bidder, and are attended by a large concourse of critical, experi- 
enced and discriminating buyers, who rely with confidence and 
safety upon the good faith of all transactions. The co-partners. 



Messrs. C. H. Isburgh and J. F. Lothrop, are Massachusetts men 
by birth and training, of large and valuable experience in this 
branch of trade. 

EJ. BROWN & CO, Dealers in Cotton, No. 27 Kilby Street. - 
As the greatest manufacturing district on the continent 
J in textile fabrics. New England is the principal and most 
active market for the best grades of cotton grown in the 
Southern States. Vast capital is invested in this branch of trade, 
and the leading factors are distinguished for their enterprise and 
energy. Prominent among tlie number is the old-established house 
of Messrs. E. J. Brown & Co., of No. 27 Kllby Street. The firm was 
formed in 1873, and has always been respected for its honest .and 
upright dealings. The members of the firm are Mr. E. J.Brown 
and his brother, Mr. F. L. Brown, both gentlemen being natives 
of M.assachusetts and closely identified with the direct purchase 
and shipments of all the grades of cotton from the Southern States. 
In this branch of commerce everything depends on sound judg- 
ment, thorough knowledge of all the varying growths and grades, 
and perfected facilities for receiving, handling and supplying the 
cotton to the consumers, and in these essentials but few houses 
have acliieved such an enviable reputation as th,at of Messrs. E. 
J. Brown & Co. They are buyers of cotton, specially adapted to 
the wants of the leading cotton mills of New England. They are 
regular receivers direct from southern ports of lots of even classed 
cotton, and carry in the public stores a large stock subject to the 
varied w.ants of the spinners. Their office are of a central and 
convenient location, at No. 27 Kilby Street, where full lines of 
samples are shown and lowest prices quoted in every grade of 
this great staple. 

CD. STEVENS, Fashionable Millinery, No. 18 Hanover Street. 
—Of the many and varied establishments that contribute 
J to the general sum of mercantile activity, there is not one 
that attracts more attention than the well ordered millin- 
ery emporium of C. D. Stevens, there being here always displ.ayed 
a full and fine assortment of French millinery goods, including the 
latest Parisian novelties ; also a complete and flrst-class line of 
hair and mourning goods, while bonnets and liats are altered, 
trimnied and made to order, likewise, in the very best style of the 
milliner's art, at popular prices. This well and favorably known 
store was established in 1877, being conducted at the present loca- 
tion about six years. The premises here occupied are compact, 
ample and nicely appointed, while eight or more competent assis- 
tants are employed, including expert designers, trimmers, etc., 
particular attention being paid to orders, and no pains are spared 
to render the fullest satisfaction in every instance to patrons. A 
large and Al stock is constantly carried, embracing bonnets and 
hats, both trimmed and untrimined, in exquisite shapes and pat- 
terns, superb feathers, flowers, ribbons, plushes, velvets and 
everything in the line of fashionable millinery trimmings in great 
variety; also, hair and mourning goods, laces, etc., while straw 
hats and bonnets are bleached and pressed in the latest style, and 
altogether Mr. Stevens lias a flourishing trade, Mr. Stevens is a 
native of the state of Maine, but has resided in Boston since 
1852. 

H,I. COON & CO., Grain Sliippers and Commission Mer- 
chants, No. 5 Broad Street, .1. A. Yantis, Boston 
Agent.— A representative and influential Chicago firm, 
extensively engaged as grain shippers and commission 
merch.ants is that or Messrs. H. J. Coon & Co., whose Boston agency, 
under the able careful management of Mr. J. A. Yantis,i3 located at 
No. 5 Broad Street. Messrs. H. J. Coon & Co. have also agencies in 
New York City, Buffalo, N. Y.,and Portland, Maine. Their Chicago 
office is at No. 10 Pacific Avenue. Their facilities are in every respect 
strictly first-class. They fill orders for car-load or cargo lots of grain 
■at the lowest ruling market prices, shipments being made direct 
from the west to consumers. They also jiossess opportunities, and 
quotes prices on round lots, that can seldom, and with the greatest 
difficulty be secured in the east for similar grades of grain. Mr, 
Yantis Is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and has 
been agent for Messrs. H. .J. Coon & Co for the last five years, and 
has reared the business second to none in their line in the New 
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H MARSHALL & CO., Steam Job Piiuters, No. 35 Sudbury 
Street.— One of tlie most successful exponents of tlie 
printer's art in tliis city is the liouse of H. Marshall & 
Co. This firm are deservedly prominent and popular as 
steam job printers, making a leading specialty of fancy color 
work. The business was established in 1874, by Messrs. Marshall 
and Sparrell, the present firm succeeding to the control in 1S86. 
The premises occupied are spacious in size, well adapted for the 
purposes of the business, and fully equipped with the latest im- 
proved self-feeding and delivering presses, and other modern ap 
pliances, tending to faciliate rapid and perfect work. This firm is 
in a position to guarantee good work, promptness and bottom 
prices; and to execute all kinds of printing, such as show cards, 
labels, business cards, call cards, t.igs, bill heads, note heads, let- 
ter heads, circulars, programmes, price lists, dodgers, stickers, 
postal cards, wood cut printing, etc. It possessesexcellent facilities 
for the production of every size, description, regular or Irregular 
shape of labels. The office contains, among others, two automatic 



a splendid five-story and baseiuent building, 40x75 feet in dimen- 
sions, the largest in its line in the city, and one of the most attrac- 
tive and best patronized establishments on this great bustling, 
thoroughfare. It is a bazaar and fancy goods emporium combined. 
For toys, fancy goods, games and novelties of every conceivable 
description, we commend the curious searcher for the rare, the 
novel, the unique and the useful, to visit Schwarz's. Of German 
toys, French toys, English toys and Yankee toys, toys for girls and 
toys for boys, there is an immense assortment. Mr. Schwarz im- 
ports direct from the most famous European houses, securing the 
latest productions from England, Germany aud France, and al- 
ways gets the best. There are games of all sorts, including lawn 
tennis, croquet, base balls and bats, racquet, parlor billards, etc. ; 
also, bric-a-brac of every description, gold and silver ornaments, 
articles of vertu, ivory and leather goods, fans, pocket books, al- 
bums, cards, brass goods, ornameutal fire sets, umbrella stands, 
and knick-knacks of every kind. Then there is the displiiy of the 
practical and the serviceable, including flue meriuo cloaks, infants' 




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presses, which, taking paper from rolls, feed, print, (In one or 
several colors of ink) and cut to the required size at one operation ; 
capacity 200,000 impressions per day. Show cards are printed in 
black or colored inks or gilded, and cut by machinery eitlier 
square, round, oval, diamond or almost any shape desired. Origi- 
nal designs for any kind of label, show cards or any other com- 
mercial printing furnished to customers, and wood engraving done 
to order. Mr. Marshall, the active member of the firm, was born 
in Concord. N. H., and has been in Boston for the past twenty-five 
years. His skill in printing is equal to any of his contemporaries 
either at home or abroad, and he has achieved a reputation that 
meets with wide recognition, orders being constantly received 
Irom all parts of the country. 

LOUIS VALENTIN, Ladies' Tailor, No. 34 Boylston Street.— 
One among the well-known young business men in this city 
is Mr. Louis Valentin, the popular ladies' tailor. Ills offices 
are elegantly fitted up and in charge of courteous, polite lady as- 
sistants. Mr. Valentin is a pr.ictical, expert fashioner and de- 
signer of ladies' costumes. garments,cloaks, riding habits, etc., and 
is very successful in pleasing his patrons. He is certainly one of 
the most accomplished ladies' tailors in the city, and learned the 
art in the French capital, where he resided many years. He is a 
Hungarian by birth, but most of his life has been spent in Paris. 
He came to Boston in 1884, and for the past two years has been es- 
tablished in his present business, and is enjoying a success as well 
merited as it is unbounded. 

RICHARD SCHWAEZ, Importer of German, French and Eng- 
lish Toys, Fancy Goods, Games and Lawn Tennis, Nos. 484 
and 486 Washington Street.— There is no store in the city 
like that of Mr. Richard Schwarz, the leading importer of 
toys, fancy goods and games. It was a small affair when the en- 
terprising proprietor first opened it in 1870. but to-day it comprises 



lace caps, embroidered slippers, zephyrs, worsteds and other ladies 
goods, while in the line of novelties we must not forget to mention 
the admirable collection of athletic goods, sporting goods and wil- 
low ware. A corps of experienced clerks and salesman, number- 
ing from twenty-five to thirty, contribute to the satisfactory opera- 
tions of the house. The trade is brisk and lively at all seasons, and 
the house is universally recognized as the leader in novelties, and 
low prices. Mr. Schwarz is a native of Germany, and a resident of 
this country for many years. 

HENRY D. CASEY, Manufacturer and Gilder of Bronze and 
Gold, Landscape, Portrait and Looking-Glass Frames, No. 
98 Hanover Street.— Mr. Casey has been identified with 
this line of trade for a quarter of a century, and in 18(38 he 
started business on his own account. He met with subst.antial 
recognition from the first and has developed a very extensive busi- 
ness connection throughout the city and suburbs. His premises 
comprise two spacious rooms, one of which is utilized as an office 
and show and ware-room, and the other is used as the workshop, 
which is equipped with all the latest improved mechanical appli- 
.ances known to the trade. Seven skilled and experienced assist- 
ants are employed in manufacturing bronze and gold landscape, 
portrait and looking-glass frames, mouldings in white, or orna- 
mented, ovals, panels, etc. Old frames are regilded, .and a special 
feature is made of ship and steamboat ornamenting and gilding. 
Mr. Casey justly prides himself upon the superiority of all work 
executed upon his premises or by him, and he is an acknowledged 
expert and most careful man at his trade. Many beautiful speci- 
mens of his handiwork in original designs are shown, and at the 
thirteenth exhibition of the Mass.achusetts Charitable Mechanic 
Association, Mr. Casey was awarded a gold medal for superiority 
of frames put on exhibition by him. He is a native of England 
and for forty-two years has resided in America to which he was 
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WOOD, KILBOUENE & CO., Agents for the Celebrated \Vm. 
Bourne & Son Pianofortes. Warerooms, No. 666 Wash- 
ington Street.— This business was founded under the 
present auspices in 18&1, and from its inception has had 
a substantial and rapid growth. Tlie spacious warerooms are fitted 
up in a tasteful and elegant style, and the stock of pianofortes 
shown represents the best makes, a specialty being made of the 
celebrated Wm. Bourne & Son instruments, for which the firm are 
agents. Pianos are sold for cash or upon the installment plan, also 
rented upon the most equitable terms. Instruments are also tuned 
and kept in general repair upon yearly contract, the charges being 
as low as is computable with good and reliable service. The firm 
have already secured a large and continually increasing patron- 
age and the general business is of most prosperous annual aggre- 
gate. Mr. J. H. Wood, the head of the firm is a practical man at 
the piano business, having been for twenty five-years prior to em- 
barking in the present enterprise, in the employ of Messrs. Wm. 
Bourne & Son, piano manufacturers. Mr. F. H. Kilbourne, until 
engaging In the present pursuit, was a teacher in the Institution 
for the Blind at South Boston. Both gentlemen are natives of Bos- 
to.i. 

FRANK W, MORRILL & CO., Butter, Cheese .and Eggs, No. 5 
North Market Street.-Tlie house of Frank W. Morrill & Co., 
has been established since 1S75 and occupies a foremost 
position among those in the trade in dairy and farm pro- 
ducts. Mr. Frank W. Morrill, who is at its head, and has charge 
of the business affairs, conducts it upon upright and liberal basis, 
and is always in a position to afford extraordinary advantages to 
Its patrons. The connections of the house are of the most satisfac- 
tory character and a large local and out of town trade has been 
built up. The premises utilized for the purposes of the business 
have an area of 20x60 feet, and every convenience is provided to 
facilitate operations. Choice creamery and dairy butter and 
cheese and fresh eggs and farm produce is received daily, and a 
wide-spread wholesale demand is supplied. Mr. Morrill, who is a 
native of Amesbury, In this state, has lived in Boston many 
years and is a prominent member of the Produce Exchange. 

HH. FOSTER & CO.. Coal and Wood, No. 119 Beach 
Street.— The business conducted under the above 
J heading was originally established upwards of halt 
a century ago and is one of the oldest city 
city enterprises in the coal and wood trade. In 1883, Mr. 
H. H. Foster, who had for some years previous been identified 
with the business succeeded to the proprietorship and by his well 
directed efforts has fully maintained the old time prosperity and 
popularity of the house. Tlie premises on Beach Street are spa- 
cious, well arranged and convenient; all requisite facilities being 
at hand for the advantageous conduct of the business. The stock 
of coal is large, comprehensive and complete, embracing all sizes 
and the best grades of stove and furnace coal, and the stock of 
wood is equally desirable and fully up to to the requirements of the 
trade. Mr. Foster has also a branch establishment in South Bos- 
ton, No. 1'3S O Street, which is a favorite source of supply for the 
trade of that vicinity. The general business is both large and 
lucrative and the patronage received is drawn from the best fam- 
ily, hotel and other custom. Mr. Foster is a native of Boston, ex 
perienced and able in his business and has long been esteemed as 
oneof the most active and enterprisnig merchants in his line in 
this city. 

WS. HODGDON, Manufacturer of Tongues, Stays, Button 
Flies, Tips, etc.. No. 116 Bedford Street.— This responsi- 
J ble and strictly first-class business liouse is engaged in 
the manufacture of tongues, stays, button flies, tips, 
etc., and also in dealing in all kinds of leather and sheepskin rem- 
nants. The founder and proprietor of the enterprise, Mr. W. S. 
Hodgdon, started business in Haverhill, Mass., in 1872, and in the 
great fire which destroyed the principal business section of that 
city, in 1882, his establishment was included in the general destruc- 
tion. He then removed to Boston and resumed business on the 
corner of Congress and High Streets, where he remained until 1887 
when he removed to his present location. Here he occupies one 
floor, with a capacity of 40x72 feet, and here is in use all the latest 



improved machinery and other appliances appertaining to the 
trade, and a large force is employed. The tongues, stays, flies, 
tips, etc., manufactured here have an excellent reputation among 
the shoe manufacturers throughout the whole of New England, 
with whom he has established a permanent and extensive business 
connection. A heavy stock of these goods and also of leather and 
sheepskin remnants is constantly kept on hand, and tlie facilities 
of the establishment for promptly complying with all orders at the 
lowest possible rates are of a most adequate character. Mr. Hodg- 
don is a native of New Hampshire and an energetic, pushing busi- 
ness man. 

AYERETSKY, Fine Tailoring, No. 63 Cambridge Street.— 
This is the oldest tailoring establishment extant in the 
J West End, and commands a patronage of a large and in- 
fluential character. It was founded in 1870 by tlie present 
proprietor, who. by turning out stylish fits and first-class work, treat- 
ing every customer courteously and fairly, has attained an envi- 
able position as one of tlie leading merchant tailors of the city. 
His store has a frontage of twenty-five feet, and a depth of forty 
feet, and is elegant and inviting in its appointments, arrange- 
ments, and in the order which prevails. The stock is a large and 
carefully selected one, and embraces fabrics of the very latest 
patterns from the best French, English, German and American 
looms. The most popular novelties in woolen and worsted suit- 
ings, cassimeres, cloths, checks, plaids, tweeds, serges, meltons, 
etc., are to be found here and at prices that cannot be surpassed. 
Customers can always rely upon getting excellent value, first-class 
work and satisfactory treatment in this reliable establishment. 
Mr. Y'eretsky is a practical cutter of ability and long experience 
and he sees to it that no garment shall be permitted to leave liis 
establishment that will not bear the closest scrutiny. He has been 
a resident of this city since 1867. 

DF. HALL, Meats, Provisions, Butter, Game, Vegetables, 
Fruit, Etc., No. 34 Charles Street.— Mr. Hall is a general 
dealer in all kinds of meats, provisions, game, vegetables, 
foreign and domestic fruits, butter, eggs, etc., and in these 
lines has won a very large and influential city and suburban trade. 
It is now thirty-five years since he first established himself in this 
line of trade, and for twenty-eight years has been located on 
Charles Street. Since 1865 he has occupied his presentstore, which 
has an area of 25x60 feet. It is very appropriately and elegantly 
fitted up. and admirably arranged for the accommodation of the 
stock and the convenience of customers. The stock is selected 
with great care and excellent judgment to meet the demands of a 
critical class of customers, and being frequently replenished can 
always be depended upon as being fresh and wholesome. Supplies 
are secured direct from the producers, and the prices ruling here 
are the lowest in the market. Tlie result is a brisk and growing 
trade, necessitating the constant employment of six assistants, 
andtlie unremitting service of two teams. The business isentirely 
retail in its character, and purchases made here are promptly de- 
livered in any part of the city free from extra charge. The tele- 
phone call IS 177, Fremont, and prompt attention is given to all 
orders. Mr Hall is a native of Massachusetts, and is a most ener- 
getic and reliable merchant. 

MISSM.B. STEWART, Type Writer Copying from Copy or 
Dictation, Room 51, No. iiO State Street.— One of the most 
talented and successful exponents of type-writing in tlie 
city of Boston is Miss M. B. Stewart, who has been estab- 
lished in the practice of her profession here since November, 1886, 
and is prepared to do type-writer copying, from copy or dictation, 
of every description, including patent specifications, and legal 
work of all kinds, supplying a stenographer by the hour, when de- 
sired. She has already gained a reputation and a patronage in 
this city that places her in the front rank of enterprise and suc- 
cess, and her services are in constant and influential demand 
among patent solicitors and city attorneys. She is prompt, accu- 
rate and methodical in all her methods, carefully guarding and in- 
telligently promoting all interests committed to her care. She 
places her terms and prices at an eminently fair and reasonable 
figure. Miss Stewart is a resident of the city, and highly esteemed 
In social and professional life. 



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ANDREW C. BERRY, Engraver and Stationer, No. 12 
West Street.— A deservedly popular exponent ol the en- 
graver's art in Boston is Mr. Andrew C. Berry. Tliere are 
lew men in the business possessing a larger sliare of experi- 
ence in tliis noble art tliau Jlr. Berry, wlio received a very careful 
training in liis calling in Iiisyoutli, and is an admitted expert in 
every branch of his business. In 1867 lie entered into business as 
a member of the firm of Berry & Bouve, and on the dissolution of 
tlie partnershij) in 1875, he assumed sole control of the enterprise, 
which he has developed into one of the leading and most success- 
ful concerns in its line in the city. The premises occupied are com- 
modious and convenient, and are fully equipped with all the Latest 
improved mechanical appliances and tools e-ssential to the success- 
ful prosecution of the business. From live to six engravers and 
designers of skill and experience are employed, and iill orders are 
promptly filled. While making a specialty of the very finest work 
in .all departments of engraving. Mr. Berry gives close attention 
to general engraving, wedding and visiting cards, invitations, 
coats of arms, crests, monograms, street dies, etc., and in this de- 
partment has a valuable business connection. He also carries in 
stock constantly a fine assortment of wedding and other fancy sta- 
tionery, and is In a position to meet all the deniands of his patrons 
with the most artistic work and at prices to insure a repetition of 
orders. He is a gentleman of middle age, a native of the city, 
and a highly esteemed business man. 

THE COSMOPOLITAN DINING ROOM, E. K. Brooks & Son, 
Proprietors, No. 13 Eliot Street.— Tlie business of catering 
to the appetites of the Bostonians seems to be well under- 
stood by Messrs. E. K. Brooks & Son, proprietors of the 
popular Cosmopolitan Dining Room, as they <are doing a flourishing 
business and are highly complimented on the excellence of the 
fare provided by all who patronize their establishment. The firm 
first opened in 1876, on Washington Street, and in the spring of the 
present year occupied the very desirable premises, No. 13 Eliot 
Street, which are very connnodious and afford .a space of 35x70 feet 
In area for seating guests and general purposes. The dining room 
is furnislied and fitted up in good taste in modern style, and con- 
tains all the conveniences for the accommodation of from 100 to 
150 patrons at one time. It is admirably conducted, scrupulously 
neat and tidy, and always presents an attractive and inviting ap- 
pearance; and is liberally piitronlzed by a first-class custom of 
both ladies and gentlemen. The menu each day includes iiU the 
substantials and delicacies when in season, which are well cooked 
and carefully served by those who are thoroughly competent. Mr. 
E. K. Brooks, and his son and copartner. Mr. Brooks, are both Bos- 
tonians and experienced caterers, knowing what is required by 
their fellow citizens. Since removal to the present location the 
bnsiness has increased, but with extra facilities and help, prompt 
attention is accorded all. . 

AE. KENNEY, Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, and Furnishing 
Goods, .at the lowest prices; Second-hand Furniture 
Bought, Sold and Exchanged, No. 62 Leverett Street.— Mr. 
Keiniey has been established four years at tlie above ad- 
dress and shown his eminent fitness to conduct the affairs of a 
large establishment with profit to himself and the most complete 
satisf.actlon to the trading public. He occupies a commod- 
ious and well arranged store at No. ,12 Leverett Street, In an 
admirable location, and carries a splendid stock of new .and sec- 
ond-hand furniture in the finest upholstering as well as plainer 
goods, carpets of every description, Brussels, Turkish and Axmin- 
ster.stoves and ranges to suit the requirements of large and small 
families and general hou.sehold furnishing goods, making his es- 
tablishment a complete depot for anything In the household goods 
line. He deals also Largely in second hand furniture, buying, sell- 
ing and exchanging, trading in the most liber.al manner. Mr. 
Keiniey has for some time been extensively engaged in the storage 
of furniture and other goods, having three spacious floors for the 
purpose at No. 19 Blossom Street. He is noted for the ])articular 
care he h.as taken of the articles consigned to his keeping and the 
extremely moderate charge he has for the safekeeping of all furni- 
ture and other goods. Mr. Kenney, who is a n.ative of Massachu- 
setts, is one of the foremost business men of Boston in his line of 
trade. 



MT. J. KEENAN, Glass Cutter, No. 71 Sudbury Stieet.— 
Great advances have been made of late centuries in 
the production of glass, and innumerable are the uses to 
which it is now put. The business of the glass cuttei is 
one of tlie most important branches of the industry, and requires 
considerable skill and thorough training in order to follow it suc- 
cessfully. A gentleman who has achieved signal success In this 
line In Boston Is Mr. M. T. J Keenan, who has been estab- 
lished for the past three years, and lias during tlie intervening 
period developed a most desirable trade which continues to stead- 
ily assume greater iiroportions. The workshop is eqiupped in 
the most complete style with all apparatus and appliances 
peculiar to the trade and the motive power is furnished by 
steam. Mr Keen.an is a skilled exponent of his vocation, person- 
ally attends to all.the work of his establishment and executes glass 
cutting in all its branches, cutting and bevelling door and co.ach 
lights, plate glass shelves, making and cutting gas and kerosene 
globes, and performing general jobbing of all kinds, making, how- 
ever, a leading specialty of bevelled clock glasses. The prices 
charged are unifornilly reasonable, while satisfaction is guaran- 
teed In every instance. Mr. Keenan is a native of Brooklyn, N. 
Y., but has resided in Boston since 1863, and has become so well 
known to the trade th.at anything we might add of a personal na- 
ture would be superfluous. 

HITCHCOCK & BROWNE, Druggists, No. 26^ Leverett 
Street.— An important acquisition to the drug trade of Bos- 
ton is the establishment opened In July last, by Messrs. 
Hitchcock & Browne. The store Is one of the handsomest 
and best equipped in this section of the city, and is fast becoming 
popular headquarters for all who esteem purity and excellence 
in stock, and enterprise and reliability in management. A large 
and valuable stock is carried, consisting of pure drugs, chemicals, 
standard proprietary and family medicines, dyes and colors, 
essences and extracts, surgical instruments and appliances, toilet 
goods and perfumery, fancy articles and holiday presents, beside 
that multitude of supplies coming under the head of druggists' 
sundries. None but the purest and most reliable goods are han- 
dled. The prescription dep.artment is umler the most experienced 
supervision, and the utmost precision and safety is .assured in all 
cases. Those who favor this house with their patronage can be 
sure of receiving reliable goods and equitable prices. Tlie copart- 
ners are W. S. D. Hitchcock, M. D., and Mr. William A. Browne. 
Dr. Hitchcock is a native of Boston, a graduate of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. Mr. Browne is an accomplished phar- 
macist and is also a native of Boston. 

BROADWAY HAT STORE, William McCarthy, Proprietor; 
No. 911 Washington Street.— Tlie leading representative hat 
store on Washington Street is that familiarly known .as the 
Broadway. It is '25x50 feet in dimensions and contains .an 
Immense stock of seasonable hats and caps of all kinds in perfect 
accord with the fashionable Ideas of the day, so that no one, not even 
the most fastidious, can fail to make a selection of something new, 
beautiful in shape and becoming, at a fair, reasonable price. The 
Broadway is the recognized fashion resort in tliis section of the 
city. A large business is carried on and Mr. William McCarthy, 
the courteous proprietor, is justly entitled to the reputiation he 
enjoys as a leader in his line of bnsiness. He isanative Bostonian 
and a wide awake, live, enterprising business man, and has been 
established In the hat and cap business since 1881, and has occu- 
pied his present liandsomely fitted up store for the past three 
years. 

PETER F. DOWLING, Fish and Oysters, No. 27 Leverett 
Street.— The excellent fish and oyster market conducted by 
Peter F. Dowlmg was established by the present proprietor 
about ten years ago, the business being carried on at the 
commodious quarters now occupied since 1885. The store is com- 
pact, ample and well kept, several competent assistants being In 
attendance, while a large and first-class stock is constantly carried 
on hand, including everything in the line of fresh fish In its season, 
also salt, dried and smoked fish of every variety, and the choicest 
Ijrands of oysters, clams, etc. ; all orders being promptly and reli 
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DC. SHEEHAN, Wholesale Dealer in Fruit anU Produce, 
No. 7 Richmond Street.— rroniiiient jiniong the wholesale 
^ commission merchants in fruit and produce is Mr. D. C. 
Sheehan, who controls a trade of great magnitude in 
these commodities. Mr. Sheehan, who has had a verj' extended 
experience in his line of enterprise, started his present flourishing 
business at No. 123 Atlantic Avenue, in 1886, and a year ago he re- 
moved to his present location. Here he occupies a commodious 
store, having a frontage of thirty feet and a depth of sixty feet. 
It is provided with every convenience and appliance for the 
speedy handling and storage of stock. While dealing in every de- 
scription of fruit and produce, the house makes a sjiecialty of po- 
tatoes, onions and apples, and the trade done in these is one of 
vast volume. Mr. Sheehan conflnes his operations to the handling 
of superior goods at the lowest market rates, and the trade is of 
such extent as to permanently require the services of five assist- 
ants. The stock Is at all times kept fresh and choice, and daily 
renewed by the arrival of consignments from the best producing 
sections of the country. Controlling the large distributing trade 
which he does, Mr. Sheehan is in a position to ofEer the best of fa- 
cilities to producers and dealers. He is a native of Lowell, Mass. 

JOHN W. HARMON, Manufacturer of Spirit Levels and Level- 
ing Instruments, No. 65 Haverhill Street.— One of the most 
noted and ingenious manufacturers in this department, as 
well as one of the most experienced, is Mr. John W. Harmon. 
Mr. Harmon was born in New Hampshire and thirty-flve years 
ago came to Boston to learn the trade in which he is now an ac- 
knowledged expert. Since 1864 he has been in business at the ad- 
dress already indicated, and here he occupies the second floor of 
the building, which is 22x60 feet in dimensions. The manufactur- 
ing department is equipped with steam power, specially devised 
machinery, and all mechanical equipments essential to the suc- 
cessful carrying on of the business. Mr. Harmon is the inventor 
of valuable surveyor's instruments and spirit levels, which are 
shipped to all parts of the United States, and wherever used have 
met with deserved commendation. His improved levelling instru- 
ment, patented August 1st, 1887, is remarkable for the simplicity 
of its construction, and for its adaptability for ordinary work, 
where commonly a more expensive instrument is used. It is 
claimed that it will cover more points than any other low-priced 
instrument in the market. Constant employment is given to a 
competent staff of workmen, and special attention is given to the 
repairing of spirit levels. Mr. Harmon is a resident of Win- 
chester. 

EF. SMITH, General Photograplier, No. 22 Milk Street.— A 
Boston artist who has gained a well merited reputation, 
, is E. r. Smith, who is in all respects one of the leading ex- 
ponents of the art in this city. Mr. Smith was born at 
Bridgeton, Me., buth,as resided on Boston many years. He is a prac- 
tical and expert photograplier, of long and varied experience in his 
profession, and is a thorough master of the photographic art in all its 
branches, Mr. Smith established himself in business in 1862, audhas 
occupied the present spacious quarters about thirteen years. The 
business premises, including studio, gallery and ware-rooms, occupy 
four 50x75 foot floors, with ample and complete facilities, while half 
a dozen or so competent assistants are employed. A general line of 
photographic work is executed ; special attention being given to 
merchandise, machinery, buildings and views ; and the pictures, 
leaving this establishment can be relied upon to be Al in every 
feature of merit, alike in fidelity, execution, design and finish; 
while the patronage, which is very large, extends to all parts of 
the New England States. Mr. Smith is a well and favorably 
known member of the Massachusetts and the National Photo- 
grapher's Associations. 

DB. H.\TCH, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Paper and 
Wood Boxes, No. 20 Bedford Street.— The manufacture of 
, paper and wood boxes is carried on quite extensively by 
Mr. D. B. Hatch, who has been identified with it for many 
years and is one of the oldest and most prominent in the city. 
The business he is now conducting, was established m 1871 by 
Hatch & Wade, and a year later came under the control of Hatch 
Bros., who continued it for a time. Mr. D. B. Hatch succeeding to 



it in 1873. From that time the business increased rapidly, necessi- 
tating greater facilities and help, and to meet the demands made 
upon him, in 1882 he removed to the premises now occupied at No. 
20 Bedford Street, where from twenty to thirty hands are kept con- 
stantly employed. Every facility and convenience have been pro- 
vided, including tlie latest improved machinery and appliances, 
and he is jirepared to give estimates and manufacture boxes of 
paper or wood in any size or style that may be desired at the very 
lowest prices. Plain boxes of every description are always kept 
on hand, and large wholesale and retail business is carried on, a 
specialty being made of order work. He is from New Hampshire, 
originally. He can always offer superior inducements to the trade 
and can turn out as well made pajier and wood boxes as any other 
establishment in the country. 

HAWKES & CRAWFOKD, Plumbers and Sanitary Engineers, 
No. .W Howard Street.— This is an old established concern 
having first been founded in 1865, in Cambridgejiort, by 
the present proprietors, where they still carry on business 
under the Arm style of Levi Hawkes & Co. The store in this city 
was opened in March, 1878, and has proved a very successful ven- 
ture, greatly augmenting the firm's resources and largely increas- 
ing their volume of trade. The premises occupied are commodi- 
ous, excellently arranged, and contain a superior stock of plumb- 
ing supplies of every description. The firm's extensive patronage 
demands the employment of a force of twenty hands, and the fa- 
cilities are of such advantageous order that contracts of any mag- 
nitude are undertaken and all work brought to a satisfactory com- 
pletion in the most expeditious manner. Particular attention is 
devoted to ventilation and sanitary plumbing, in which the utmost 
care and skill is exercised, in order to achieve the best results. As 
to the matter of terms it is sufficient to state tliat this house can 
safely meet all competition in this direction. The copartners, 
Messrs. Levi Hawkes and John Crawford, are natives of Cam- 
bridge, and are very favorably regarded wherever known. 

TE. SMITH, Manufacturer and Dealer in Havana and Do 
inestic Cigars, Tobacco, and Smokers' Articles, No. 572 
, Washington Street.— Mr. Smith has been a manufacturer 
of cigars and a trader in smokers' articles of every de- 
scription since the year 1869, and since 1876 has been doing business 
on the corner of Washington Street and Chickering Place, where 
he has a cozy, elegant store fitted up witli every convenience for 
himself and his patrons. The stock is a superior and miscellaneous 
one, and embraces Havana and domestic cigars by other popular 
makers as well as the favorite brands of his own manufacture. 
Red Cross and T. E. S. smoking and chewing tobaccos of the finest 
brands, meerschaum and other pipes, and smokers' requisites of 
every description are found in ample display, and the prices which 
prevail are not excelled by any other establishment. Mr. Smith 
is a Bostonian by birth, and is very popular both as a merchant and 
private citizen. 

FH. BACON, Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer in Fine 
Shirts, Etc., No 50 Hanover Street.— An old and leading 
I Boston shirt emporium and men's haberdashery store is 
the well known and popular establishment of F.H. Bacon, 
which is one of the oldest and foremost establishments of the 
kind in this quarter of the city, having been conducted at the 
present location by the gentleman whose name stands at the head 
of the sketch for thirty odd years. Only Al goods are handled, 
and bed-rock prices also prevail, while the shirts to order made by 
Mr. Bacon have long been noted for their general excellence, alike 
as to neatness, comfort, finish and fabric ; perfect fit being guar- 
anteed In every instance. The store, which is 25x80 feet in size, is 
handsomely furnished and tastefully arranged, four efficient as- 
sistants being in attendance, while an extensive and first-class as- 
sortment is constantly carried on hand. The stock embraces fine 
dress and fancy colored shirts, novelties in underwear, rich neck 
dressing, elegant hosiery, gloves, suspenders, umbrellas, collars 
and cuffs in neweststyles, handsome scarfpins, sleeve buttons and 
everything comprehended in gents' furnishing goods,— fine cus- 
tom shirts being a specialty. Mr. Bacon, is a Vermonter by birth, 
but has resided in this city some forty years and has succeeded In 
rearing a very fine trade. 



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WW.WINSHIP, Manufacturer (if Trunks, Bags, Etc., No. 7 
Elm Street.— In the proiluctiim an<l sale of trunks,valises 
and bags in Boston, the position of supremacy is by cimi- 
mon consent awarded to Mi-. \V. \V. VViUMliip. Tliisgen- 
tlenian has an international reputation as a nianufacturer and 
wholesale an<l retail dealer in truidis, valises, l)a(;«, etc., making a 
leading specialty of sample trunks and bags, and has been estab- 
lished in the business here for fully hfly years. The present store 
li.is been occupied by Mr. Winsliip since LSI.') and comprises a hve- 
siory building, 40xlOU leet in dinii'iisnMis iln iilinl into manufactur- 




ing and sales departments, and giving ample accumr.'odations for 
supplying the most extensive demand. The sample trunks and 
cases of this widely-known and responsible house are rarely 
equalled in tliis or any other country for tinality of materials, tine 
finish, thorough durability, elegance, and are the embodiments of 
skilled workmanship of the highest order of perfection. The best 
test of a reliable, well-made trunk is the length of time it will 
stand the hard usage of biiggaga masters and expressmen, and 
the fact that the Wlnship trunks have withstood years of contin- 
ual wear is a guarantee of the claim of the house for superiority 
-;ind reliability of make. The specialties here produced are not 
only in heavy and permanent demand in this country, but are ship- 




ped in large quantities to Africa, South America and oilier foreign 
countries. They are offered to customers at extremely low prices, 
and are preferred by dealers over all other makes wherever intro- 
duced on account of tlieir great salability and solid merits. The 
history of this responsible lioiise is a pleasant proof of the cer- 
tainty with which energy and probity will win their way, and 
that honesty in representation .and action is always the best pol- 
icy. Mr. Winsliip is a native of Boston, a well-known citizen of 
Maiden, and honored and respected in business, financial and 
trade circles for his honorable and successl'ul career. 

WILLIAM KERR & SON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Watches and Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Etc., No. 39 
Hanover Street.— It is fully thirty years ago since Mr. 
William Kerr started in business on Hanover Street. By 
pursuing a policy of small profits and handling only the best goods 
in tlie market, whether solid or plated, his reputation became wide- 
spread and his house is to-day one of the leading representatives in 
this line in New England. In connection with his establishing in 
Boston, is an extremely interesting reminiscence. Mr. Kerr, who 
was born in Scotland, came to the United States thirty-eight 
years ago and was in .Xew York city for a couple of years. In 



1852 he was sent from New York to the old dry goods house of 
Beebe, Morgan & Co., to enter the employ of that firm, at which 
time, Hon. Levi P. Mortem, the present vice-president of the 
United States was a member of the firm. Mr. Kerr's business as 
jeweller and dealer in watches, clocks, silverware steadily en- 
larged, and in 1878 lie removed to his present premises, at No. 39, 
where he has a very finely fitted up jewelry store. Two years ago, 
Mr. Albert li. Kerr, his sou, wasadmittedintocopartnersliip.nnder 
the existing name and slyle. He is a young business man of 
marked ability, and has been actively connected with the business 
for twelve years prior to entering the firm. Messrs. Kerr & Son 
carry a heavy stock otihe best American watclies, including the 
finest movements, such as Elgin, Walthaiu, etc. In cases they can 
meet the most exacting taste, while all pockets can here tiiida 
watch they can afford. In jewelry, tlieir stock is always freshly 
assorted and covers the eulire range from diainonds and gold 
jewelry to the elegant and beautiful designs in rolled plate, etc. 
This IS headquarters for fine sterling silver, and silver plated 
goods, clocks, bronzes, etc. All goods are warranted as repre- 
sented. Mr. \V. Kerr was one of the founders of the Boston Cale- 
donian Club, and was the chief of same in 1862-3-6-7-8. He is an 
esteemed member of the Masonic order; of the Order of Oddfel- 
lows, and Royal Arcanum. 

H\V. MUNCH, Successor to C. R. Munch, .Jr., Manufacturer 
of Ribbon Badges for Societies, Etc., No. .')o9 Washington 
Street. The oldest and most prominent lion.se in Boston 
engaged in a very importanl branch of lliis business is 
that which is conducted by Mr. H. W. Munch, successor to C. R. 
Miiucli..Ir., nianufacturer of ribbon badges, etc. Mr. H. W. Munch 
was born in Somerville in 1864, and has been connected with this 
line of trade from early years, and, desiring to engage in business 
on his own account, purchased this special branch in 1S8B. He oc- 
cupies premises of ample dimensions, which are fully equipped 
with all Ihe necessary appliances and devices for turning out first- 
class work, and employment is furnished to a number of skilled 
and competent operatives, and a full and complete assortment of 
original and adopted designs and samples of his work can be found 
at his establishment at all times. He is prepared to furnish in any 
quantities all kinds of ribbon badges, with suitable and truthfully 
delineated emblems, for all kinds of societies, such as Knights 
Templar, Masonic. I. O. O.F. ; K, of P.; A. O. of F.; S. O. T.; G A, 
R. ; F. M.; T. A. B ; A.O.H., and any of the prevailing organ- 
izations for funeral, festival, picnic, convention, parade, ball 
display and exhibition occasions. Especial attention is given to 
officers, committee, master of ceremonies and other orders for fine 
work. None but the best qualities of materials are used, and the 
work is of the highest artistic merit, while the designs are the very 
latest, most unique and attractive. College, academic, athleticand 
all organizations out of the city are furnished witli designs, on ap- 
plication from which to make selections, and all orders are faith- 
fully executed. 

JOHN W. McKEY, Crockery. China and Glassware, No. 761 
Washington Street.— MrMcKey is an extensive dealer in 
crockeiy, chinaand glassware, fiuekitchen furnishing goods, 
silver-plated ware and lamp goods, and carries the finest 
stock of goods in this line ever brought to this city. The store is 
20x100 feet in size, elegant in all its arrangements and appoint- 
ments, and perfect in convenience for inspection and sale. The 
attractiveness of the stock and its artistic arrangement bespeak 
the t,aste and systematic methods of the management, and in Ihe 
showrooms can be seen Ihe mostdelicatechina, decorated mantel 
and table ware, baccarat gl.ass ware, porcelain, cut glass and the 
charming Bohemian glassware in vast variety; bisque statuettes 
of exquisite beauly. bric-abrac in bewildering array, articles of 
vertu, and hundreds of pieces for ornament or use, all displayed 
in a manner befitting the proprietor's distinguished enterpn'.se 
and ample resources. He h.as somes of supply in London, Paris, 
Berlin, Vienna .and other European capitals, and is in a position 
to afford the American public unexampled opportunities for secur- 
ing the most beautiful wares known to civilization. Tlie stock 
speaks for itself and is full and complete to the extreme, while the 
prices challenge competition with any contemporary establishment 
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CA. FAXON, ESQ., General Agent Cliesliiie, Central Ver- 
mont and Del. & Hudson Canal Company's Railroads ; OfBce, 
No. 228 Washington Street.— As one of the greatest railroad 
centres on the Continent, Boston is headquarters for sev- 
eral of the best conducted and most important lines ot passenger 
travel in the United States and Canada. Notably is this the case 
with the popular Cheshire and Central Vermont Line, whose ex- 
tensive Boston traffic lias been so long, and so ably conducted 
by Mr. C. A. Faxon, the widely and f.avorably known General 
Agent. The Fitchburg and Cheshire Line has luad its general 
agency in Boston for over forty years past, and since 1867 has been 
permanently in charge of Mr. Faxon, whose practical experience, 
widespread influential connections, renders him specially quali- 
fied for the discliarge of the onerous duties devolving upon him. 
The routes over wliich he sells tickets are the most direct to all 
points in the nortli-eastern part of the state, and Keene in 
New Hampshire; Rutland, Burlington and St. Albans in Ver- 
mont, with direct connections to all the points of scenic interest, 
or of industrial and commercial importance, in the northern 
and central sections of New York. Tickets can be best secured 
here lor any points in the Lake George and Lake Champlain 
region, and the Adirondacks. Another important class of busi- 
ness, very largely controlled by the Cheshire Line is the direct 
passenger travel to all points in Canada— to Montreal, Quebec, 
Ottawa, &c. From Rouse's Point passengers now travel direct by 
the new Canada Atlantic to Ottawa. New and luxurious parlor 
and sleeping cars accompany through trains leaving Boston, and 
tickets and chairs or berths can best be secured at 228 Washing- 
ton Street. Mr. Faxon was born in Quincy, Mass., and has all 
his life been actively identifled with the business of passenger and 
freight transportation. He isone of the best-known generalagents 
111 yiew England, a prominent member of the Association of Rail- 
road and Ste.imboat Agents of Boston. 

CB. SANBORN & CO.,Prodnce Commission Mercliants, Poultry, 
Game.Eggs.Etc; Nos.29North Market and 29 Clinton Streets 
^ -This popular and responsible firm was established in 1866, 
and during the twenty-three or so years of its existence 
lias maintained an unbroken record of prosperity. Conducting the 
ii.Hise on strict business principles, prompt and reliable in meet- 
ing .all obligations, and withal thoroughly conversant with the 
trade, it is only in the nature of things that this firm should have 
attained the full measure of success that inv.ari.ably attends en- 
ergy and ability when well directed. The premises occupied are 
comniudiotis. ample and well kept, some half a dozen in help being 
employed, while a heavy and fine stock is always carried on hand, 
including poultry, game, eggs, fruits, vegetables and country pro- 
duce generally. The firm make a leading specialty of the s.ale of 
fruits in summer and of poultry and game in winter, handling 
large consignments of each daily in their respective seasons, and 
altogether a flourisliing business is carried on, the trade extending 
all over the New England States. Mr. Sanborn, who is the sole 
member, is a gentleman of middle age, and a native of New 
Hampsliire, but li.as long been a respected merchant In this city, 
and is a well-known member of the Chamber ot Commerce. The 
reference of the house is Faneuil Hall National Bank. 

GILLESPIE & HUTCHINSON. Dry and Fancy Goods, Etc., 
Nns. .S8. 60 and 62 Green Street, Corner Staniford.— Conduct- 
ing their business on a liberal, enterprising and equitable 
business policy, this firm have not been slow to adopt every 
position of vantage, so that it is ever found in the foreground, both 
as regards the newest goods and the latest styles that enables 
their patrons to speedily satisfy their tastes as to shades and pat- 
terns. The establishment has a frontage of sixty feet on Green 
Street, is ornamented witli four handsomely-dressed show win- 
dows, while the interior is fitted up in keeping with the correct 
taste and sound judgment of the proprietors. The store is one of 
the busiest in its line in the west end, its counters being daily 
thronged with patrons from all classes of the community. Each 
dep.artment is complete within itself, while the employers are all 
noted for their courtesy and obliging manners, combining, with a 
thorough knowledge of their duties, a faculty for anticipating the 
wants of patrons, laying before them a full variety of textures, 
patterns and shades from wliich to clioose, so that, when the ex- 



cellence of the stock Is taken into consideration, it is not surpris- 
ing that rapid sales are made, and general satisfaction given to 
buyers. Customers can here obtain an outfit not alone of dry and 
fancy goods, but many articles botli tor use and adornment, in- 
cluding shirts, undershirts and drawers, hosiery, gloves and neck- 
wear, collars, cults and general outflttings for gentlemen ; cmsets, 
Jersey waists, skirts and bustles ; laces, ribbons and embroideries, 
and a splendid assortment of fancy goods, notions and small wares 
of every description. Mr. Gillespie is a native ot Scotland, and a 
resident of this comitry for forty years, while Mr. Hutchinson was 
born in Maine. They are both experienced merchants. 

H STEWART, Manufacturer and Dealer in Fine Carriages of 
every Description ; Factory, Nos, 6 to 9 Pitts Street; 
Salesroom, No. 13 Green Street.— This gentleman has 
been engaged <as a manufacturer and dealer in line 
carriages of every description since 1882, making a leading spe- 
cialty of Berlin coaches, and also giving prompt and skilful atten- 
tion to repairing in all its branches. His factory comprises two 
floors, 30x50 feet e.ach, fully equipped with all modern conveniences 
tending to facilitate rapid and perfect production, and steady em- 
ployment is given to a force ot thirty-five expert workmen. All 
the operations of the works are conducted under tlie immediate 
personal supervision of the proprietor, thus insuring to customers 
only such products as will withstand the most critical tests, both 
in regard to the materials used in their construction, and tlie 
workmanship employed. The salesrooms on Green Street give 
ample accommodations for one hundred carriages, and the stock 
here carried is of a character to command the confidence and 
patronage of critical and discriminating buyers. The carriages 
and coaches of this responsible house are highly esteemed wher- 
ever introduced for their strength, lightness, ease ot draft and 
elegance of finish, and have no superiors in the market. Business 
relations with the house may rely upon the promptness and liber- 
ality of all transactions. Mr. Stewart is a native ot the North of 
Ireland, and a resident of this country tor the past thirty years. 

PW. LYDON. Music-Pl.ate Printer, No. 298 Wasliington 
Street.— Mr. P. W. Lydon, the well known music-plate 
printer, enjoys an Al reputation for fine work in this line : 
being, in fact, one of the foremost exponents of the art in 
Boston. Mr. Lydon, who is .a New Yorker by birth, is a practical 
and expert music-plate and general job printer of long and varied 
experience at the case, and is a thorough master of his art in all 
its branches. He was formerly of the firm of Blair & Lydon estab- 
lished in 1880, whom he succeeded in July. 1887, and has since con- 
ducted the business alone with uninterrupted success. Mr. Lydon 
occupies commodious and well-equipped quarters here and has in 
service two presses and ample facilities, while a competent assist- 
ant or two is regularly employed. Music-plate printing of every 
description is executed In the most prompt and excellent manner, 
all orders receiving immediate attention while the lowest prices 
consistent with first-class work and reliability at all times prevail 
in this reliable establishment. 

GH.WHEELER, Real Estate, Mortgages and Insurance, No.666 
Washington Street.— In the line of real est.ate, mortgages 
J and insurance one of our most successful and reliable 
houses is that of G. H. Wheeler. This well-conducted 
business was established by Mr. Wlieeler in 1867 in tlie old Boylston 
building, where It was carried on up to 1887 when the demolition 
of that well-known structure necessitated the removal of the 
offices, until the rebuilding of the hall, to the present address. Mr. 
Wheeler occupies here a fine suite ot offices, and continues topusii 
his business with the greatest success. He is an extensive handler 
of realty throughout the city, knowing intimately the value of 
every parcel throughout the city where he was born and where he 
has resided all his life. He also attends to the leasing and man- 
agement of properties, procures mortgages at the best rates and 
generally .acts as an agent of every kind in connection with real 
estate and has built up a first-class patronage, representing some 
of the leading institutions of the country as well as the leading 
foreign companies. .Mr. Wlieeler expects to remove to the new 
Boylston building, with which site he has been so long identified 
in a short time. 



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EZRA E. ROCKWOOD, Apothecary, No. 127 Leveiett Street.— 
This gentleman established his business liere in 1883, and 
has achieved a reputation and acquired a trade that places 
liim in the front ranic of enterprise and success. His store 
is spacious in size, eligibly located for trade purposes, and attrac- 
tive In all its arrangements and appointments. It contains at all 
times a large and varied stock of tlie finest drugs and chemicals, 
proprietary medicines of acknowledged merit, fancy toilet articles, 
perfumery, and druggists' sundries of every description. There is 
no department of the drug business so important as the careful, 
conscientious and intelligentcompoundingof pliysiciaus" prescrip- 
tions and family receipts, and tliis branch holds a permanent 
position in this establishment. For tliis purpose Hie proprietor is 
supplied with the purest possible drugs, and the utmost accuracy 
and precision is assured in all transactions. The leading specialty 
of the business is the manufacture of Phora, a veterinary ointment, 
made by the Phora Ointment Co., Rockwood & Lamb, proprietors, 
which is fast superseding all other preparations in the market. It 
is put up in half-pound tin-boxes, and sold in bulk in any quantity 
desired. Mr. Rockwood is a native of Massachusetts and an ac- 
complished pharmacist. 

WS. CONDELL, New England Freight and Passenger Agent 
for the Union Pacific Railw.ay; No. 290 W.ishington 
^ Street.— We confer a favor upon the public when we 
point out the office of Mr. W. S. Condell, New England 
Freight and Passenger Agent of the Union Pacific Railway at No. 
290 Washington Street, as the most desirable medium in this city 
for securing transportation to the far west. This is the only direct 
route to all points in Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Dakota, 
Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, and for Los Ange- 
les, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento and all points in Cali- 
fornia, and this oftlce is the only place where passage tickets are 
purchased and freight is furnislied to this section of the country 
with the least possible annoyance to the public and at the lowest 
minimum of expense. Freight must be marked " via Union Pacific 
Railway," and safe conveyance and prompt delivery is invariably 
assured. The speed, comfort and safety of oassengers on this 
great popular route is becoming to be a proverb to those who have 
traveled much in the west, and its accommodations are not sur- 
passed by any line iu the country, west or east. Mr. Condell has 
been in the railroad business since April, 1867, and was appointed 
to Ills present position in October, 1887. He is a member of the 
Association of Railroad and Steamship Agents of Boston, and 
stands deservedly high in social and business circles in this city. 

GEO. S. WINSLOW & CO., Provisions, Poultry, Butter, Eggs 
Produce, Etc., No. 112 Blackstone Street.— This thriving 
business was established in 1879 by the present senior mem- 
ber, who conducted it alone up to October last, when he 
admitted into partnership Charles West. They occupy here a 
compact and neatly kept store and basement, with ample and 
complete storage facilities, and keep constantly on hand a large, 
first-class stock, which includes besides choice freth beef, mutton, 
Iamb, veal and pork; also prime corned, salt, pickled and smoked 
meats of all kinds, fine dairy butter, cheese, eggs, lard, vegetables, 
fruits and country produce generally. They handle nothing but 
reliable and excellent goods, and the trade of the firm, is large 
and active. Mr. Winslow, who is a man of middle age, was born 
in Maine, and has resided in Boston since 1868, and Mr. West, who 
IS a comparatively young man. is a native of England, but was 
brought to this country at the age of six months. 

H HATCH & CO.,Steel and Stencil Letter Cutting. No. 69 Coin- 
hill Street.— Among the different industries of Boston is 
that of steel and stencil letter cutting. It is carried on 
quite extensively by the firm of H. Hatch & Co., succes- 
sors to Smith & Hatch, who established it in 1666. The present 
firm has continued the business since 1872, and as m.ay be inferred, 
the transactions are extensive enforcing the conclusion that tlie 
facilities for executing the best class of work and filling orders are 
of the most complete character. For some years the operations 
were carried on at No. 220 Washington Street, but recently the 
very eligible premises now occupied at No. 69 Cornhill, were se- 
cured which are perfectly equipped for doing all kinds of work 



pertaining to the business, which includes the manufacture of 
burning brands for cigar manufacturers and fish packers, and steel 
stamps for marking wood, leatiier, steel, silver, etc., and seals for 
societies, notaries and wax seals for druggists, banks and express 
companies, and stencils for business purposes and marking cloth- 
ing and also rubber st.amps of all kinds, cancelling stamps, check 
protectors, door plates, badges and numbers, baggage and key 
check, etc., and stamps for patentees, cutters and jewelers. In- 
delible ink, stencil paste, brushes, etc., are also furnished and 
every attention is given to work for tlie trade and customers. He 
also pays particular attention to making music eiigravere, tools to 
order of every description in the best manner at reasonable priceSj 
and fully guarantees all his work. He was born and brought up 
in Charlestown. 

JOHN P. CULLEN, Provisions, No. 113 Cimbridge Street.— An 
establishment which is a le.ader iu its special department of 
industry in tills section of the city, is the provision mart of 
Mr. John P. CuUen. Mr. CuUen, wlio is a native of Canada, 
came to Boston in 1872, and in the same year established himself in 
business at No. 97 Cambridge Street, remaining there until 1878, 
when his growing trade demanded more commodious quarters, 
and he removed to the store which he still continues to occupy. 
The premises are amply commodious, are fitted up in the most 
tasteful, convenient manner, and are provided with all requisites 
for the care and handling of stock, and the expeditious h.andling 
of trade. Tlie large stock at all times carried embraces the choic- 
est fresh and salt meat of all kinds, and vegetables of every de- 
scription in their season, and are the best of the kind obtainable in 
the market. Employment is furnished seven clerks and assistants, 
and customers have their wants promptly and courteously at- 
tended to, while goods are delivered to any part of the city or Its 
vicinity free of charge. Mr. Ciillen keeps his stock at all times up 
to the highest standard of efficiency 

WILLARD M. BACON, Architect, No. 85 Water Street.— 
Among the most popular and accomplished members of 
the architectural profession in Boston must be mentioned 
Mr. Willard M. Bacon. Mr. Bacon was born in Pennsyl- 
vania and at an early age began the study of architecture, for 
which he has a great natural aptitude, and his training for his 
chosen profession was the best that could be secured for him. He 
has had ten years hard practical experience and for the past three 
years has been in business on his own account in Boston, where he 
has resided for seven years. Numerous Hue buildings in all parts 
of the city and New England attest his knowledge and good taste 
as an architect and building superintendent. Mr. Bacon is pre- 
pared with ail the necessary f.acilities to execute or carry out any 
architectural undertaking, not only promptly, but with that intel- 
ligent apprehension of design which make his efforts so highly 
appreciated. He will be found prompt, liberal and enterprising, 
never unsolicttious for the benefit of his patrons, .and .always pre- 
pared to offer advantages in keeping with such a reputation. 

J P. PERRY & CO., Plumbers, Gas and Ste.am Fitters, No. 123 
Devonshire Street.— In tlie imiHiitant busine.ss of plumbing, 
together with gas and steam fitting the firm of Messrs. J. 
P. Perry & Co., No. 123 Devonshire Street, has secured a 
well earned reputation, and their establishment has now become 
recognized as one of the most reliable in the city of Boston. This 
business was established in 1852 by R. W. Norton & Co., who con- 
ducted it till 1868,wlien the present proprietors.Messrs. James P..and 
George \V. Perry, succeeded to the management. The premises 
occupied comprise a spacious basement 2.5x60 feet in area, which 
is fully stocked with a well selected and complete assortment of 
plumbers' and gas fitters' supplies of every description. Every- 
thing in the way of plumbing, ventilating, gas and steam fitting is 
executed in a first-class manner. Contracts for the complete fit- 
ting of buildings are satisfactorily performed .at the lowest possi- 
ble prices consistent with the best materials and superior work- 
manship. Only competent plumbers and mechanics are employed, 
while all work is executed under the immediate and personal 
supervision of the partners. The firm make a specialty of s;ini- 
tary plumbing, and employ twenty workmen, and their trade now 
extends throughout all sections of Boston .and its vicinity. 



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VIKGIiNIA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA AIR LINE, C. P. 
G:iitliei', New England Agent, No, 290 Washington Street.— 
In the purchase of railway and steamship tickets the ques- 
tion " where to buy " is very frequently more important to 
decide titan " how to buy," and one that appeals forcibly to every 
prosjiective traveler on the principal route.s of travel. As an aid to 
tliose going south from Boston we would direct attention to the 
advantages offered by the routes reiiresented by Mr. C. P. Gaither, 
the New England agent for the Vnginia, Tennessee and Georgia 
Air Line, the Shenandoah Valley Route, the Kennesaw Route and 
the Norfolk Route ; also soliciting agent for tlie celebrated Mer- 
ciiants'and Miners' Transportation Company; with offices eligi- 
bly located at No. 290 Washington Street. Mr. Gaither has been 
closely connected with the railway and transportation business 
since 1872, and was appointed to his present position in 1878. He 
is wjdely experienced, thoroughly informed and brings to bear 
every facility tending to insure the safety, convenience and com- 
fort of passengers securing transportation through him on any of 
tlie above routes. He has resided in Boston for the past thirteen 
years and is known here as a responsible business man of sterling 
integrity, who has ever retained the confidence of leading com- 
mercial and financial circles, building up for the lines he repre- 
sents a popularity and a patronage of wide influence by a faithful 
(discharge of his duties to the companies whose interests lie repre- 
.•sents and to the public which he serves conscientiously and credit- 
ably in all respects. Mr. Gaither was born in the State of Maryland 
in 1850, was in the employ of the. Bay Line and Atlantic Coast Lines 
.at Baltimore for several years, is a member of tlie Railway and 
■Steamboat Agents Association of Boston, and stands high in the 
esteem and contidence of corporations and commercial circles as 
a reliable agent and an energetic and successful business man. 

JTINKHAM, Furnishing Undertaker, and Collin Warerooms, 
No. 20 Howard Street.— Mr. Tinkham is the oUlestexponent 
of his profession in Boston, having been engaged in it for 
the lengthy period of forty-flve years. The business 
which he controls was founded some forty years ago by Mr. L. L. 
Tarbell, and fifteen years later Mr. Tinkham succeeded him In the 
management. Under his proprietorship the house has attained 
its present foremost position, and become recognized as a leader 
among its eontemporaries. The premises occupied as office and 
wareroom consist of a store 25x100 feet in dimensions finely ap- 
pointed and equipped in the most approved style with every con- 
venience. A full stock is constantly kept on hand of coffins, 
•caskets, burial cases and funeral furnishings of all kinds, and the 
establishment is amply prepared to meed all demands that may be 
made upon its resources. The proprietor has three fine hearses 
and they are kept in his own stable. Funerals are taken entire 
charge of, every detail being given the most careful supervision, 
and all services are conducted in the most considerate manner. 
Mr. Tinkham is a native of Massachusetts, and his reputation for 
lionorable dealing is established far beyond the requirements of 
praise. 

DAVENPORT, PETERS & CO., Lumber Merchants, Offlces: 
M.ison Building, No. 70 Kilby Street— The oldest concern 
engaged in this branch of tr.ade is that of Messrs. Daven- 
port, Peters & Co. This business was established in 1811 
by Mr. Edward D. Peters, and who was succeeded by his son Mr. 
George H. Peters, under the style of George H. Peters & Co. In 
188G after a lengthy and prosperous mercantile career, Mr. G. H. 
Peters retired and the new firm of Davenport, Peters & Co., was 
formed, composed of Mr. George H. Davenport, Mr. G. Gorham 
Peters and Mr. William Bacon. They deal direct with head- 
quarters of the various lumber regions as sources of supply for 
their customers, and are in a position to offer substantial induce- 
ments in regard to prices and quality of every description of hard- 
wood lumber, wliite and yellow pine, cargo and car lots of oak, 
ash, maple, whitewood, sycamore, bl.ack walnut, cherry, etc. 
Michigan and Canada pine, yellow pine and cypress lumber and 
shingles, are delivered direct by them to their customers in all 
parts of New England. Tiiey handle several million feet annually 
and do one of the most active and enlarging trades in this line in- 
the Eastern States. Mr. G. H. Davenport was born in Boston, and 
is an able and respected member of comniprcial circles. Hebe- 



came connected with the house in 1866 and went into copartner- 
ship in 1876. He has built up a large trade on the substantial 
basis of equity and due care of customers' interests. Mr. G. Gor- 
ham Peters was born in Boston, ami is tlie son of Mr. George H. 
Peters, founder of the concern. He has had an Intimate identifi- 
cation with the trade from youth up. Mr. William Bacon, is also 
a native Bostonian, who became a member of the firm in 1886. 
The house is an active member of the Lumber Dealers Associa- 
tion. 

FRANK X. OBERLE, Manufacturer of tlie Bostonia, Qui Vive, 
Vega 41, and other brands of Fine Cigars, No. 1 C?ntra, 
Wharf.— Tliis gentleman is deservedly prominent and popu- 
lar as an extensive manufacturer of fine cigars, and lias 
been established in the business here since 1872. He occupies spa- 
cious and well equipped premises, and gives steady employment 
to twenty skilled and experienced liands. The specialties manu- 
factured by tills responsible house include the Boquet ie Bostonial 
Bostonia, Qui Vive, Vega 41, and other brands, all of wliicli are of 
prime quality and have a wide sale owing to their reliability and 
uniform excellence. It has always been the aim of Mr. Oberle to 
make a thoroughly good cigar, that will be readily enjoyed by con- 
noisseurs, and to keep his brands up to a iiigh and uniform stand- 
ard of excellence. His Cigars are liandled by the best retailers, 
hotels and restaurants in this city, and are eagerly sought tor by 
lovers of good smoking everywliere. Only fine goods are manu- 
factured. Mr. Oberle is a native of Germany, a resident of this 
city since his boyliood,and a young man of large practical experi- 
ence as a manufacturer. 



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E. GOODRIDGE, Eliot Street St.ables, Nos. 129 and 131 
Eliot Street.— Tills is vmdeniably the largest and best 
ventilated stable in the city, and was opened for the 
accommodation of the public in August, 18S8, by the 
present priiinietor, wlio had for some years previously been en- 
gaged in the business at Haverhill, Mass. Tliebuildingisof brick, 
containing four stories and a basement, and possesses first-class 
accommodations for two hundred and fifty lior.ses. Particular 
attention is paid to boarding and baiting, while a splendid line of 
equipages is kept for hire at moderate rates. The stock of horses 
comprises those suitable for ladies and invalids' use, as well as 
others noted for speed and staying qualities. Some of the finest 
turnouts to be seen in the city come from this establishment, in- 
cluding coupfe, coaches, victorias, landaus, T carts and road 
wagons in great variety. The facilities of this house for boarding 
horses are not equalled in the city. Competent and careful 
grooms and stablemen look after the comforts of the stock. The 
institution is a credit to the enterprise and ability displayed in its 
management. Mr. Goodridge is a native of Haverhill, Mass. 

DW. FITZPATRICK, Artist Tailor, No.114 Court Street.— This 
gentleman started in business originally in East Cam- 
, bridge, in 1860. subsequently settling in California, 
where he resided for thirteen years, and returning to Bos- 
ton in 1884. His business premises are spacious in size, eligibly 
located for trade purposes, and perfect in convenience for dis- 
play, inspection and sale Here is exhibited one of tlie finest 
stocks of cloths and trimmings ever brought to this cily. The very 
best sources of American and European production con- 
tributing to its wealth. It is complete in material, design and 
novelty, and gives the limit of manufacture in high-class goods. 
Mr. Fitzpatrick devotes his time and talents to fine custom work 
only, and the garments produced here are simply perfection in 
style, fit and artistic workmanship. To be found among his per- 
manent customers are many of Boston's best-dressed citizens, gen- 
tlemen old iind young, who nnderstand the merits of a thoroughly 
first-class tailor, and who find in Mr. Fitzpatrick's establisliiiient 
not only a line of goods that is at all times superior, but a place 
where the general make-up, fit and ti-imming of a garment is a 
matter of careful consideration and study. When it is learned that 
a force of flfty-flve skilled hands is employed, the extensive busi- 
ness that Is here transacted can be fully appreciated. Mr. Fitz- 
patrick is one of Boston's most successful business men, emi- 
nently fair and conscientious in all his dealings, and widely popu- 
lar as a thoroughly accomplished master of his art. 



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THOS. J. HOLMES, Specialist ill Atoiniziiiij Tulies, Etc., No. 
50 Sudbury Street.— Atomizers sliould he in every liouse, as 
tlieir use is extremely beneficial in the sick room, diffusing 
disinfectants and thereby purifying the atmospliere, and at 
the same time making the room more comfortable and conducing 
to health. In this connection special reference is made in this 
commercial review of Boston to Mr. Thomas J. Holmes, specialist 
in atomizing tubes for all purposes, and proprietor and manufac- 
turer of tlie Mammoth Atomizer, Boston per- 
fuiiier. Centennial Atomizer, Favorite per- 
fumer, etc. Mr Holmes established this busi- 
ness in 1870, since which period lie has built 
upaliberal, intluenlial and permanent patron- 
age, not only in all sections of the United 
States and Canada, but also in Central and 
Soutli America, Europe and Japan. Tliere is 
nothing better for moistening pl.ants. By the 
use of an atomizer the leaves .and vines may 
be kept moist, as are the garden flowers, by 
the falling dew. For throwing medicaments 
they are useful beyond compare. The throat 
may be sprayed by tlie "Reversible ,Atonii 
zer," and more thoroughly than Is possible bv 
gargling, or by any otlier process. The saini, 
atomizer may be reversed to tlirow the spray 
upward behind tlie soft palate, and Catarrh 
alleviated and cured. For perfuming the 
the room with gnateful odors, there is notiiin^ so well adrpted. 
They are for sale by all druggists and apothecaries and by dealers 
in taucy goods throughout the United States and Canada, and are 





general favorites wherever intioduci.-d,:il\vayscommandingaready 
sale. Mr. Holmes was born In New York, but has resided in Boston 
for the last sixteen years. 

VINTON & JENKINS, Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes, 
Stonehain, Mass. Boston Office, No. 16 Lincoln Street.— 
Among those wlio devote themselves exclusively to the 
manufacture of women's, misses' and cliildren's boots and 
shoes are Messrs. Vinton & Jenkins, of No. 16 Lincoln Street. This 
concern was founded in 1876, and ranks among the foremost in the 
trade. Their headquarters and factories (two) are at Stoneham 
Mass. From the outset the firm have kept themselves abreast 
of the times in adopting the most improved macliinery. and it 
would be difficult to find shoe factories .anywhere better equipped 
than those of Messrs. Vinton and Jenkins, who have every known 
facility for turning out the very best machine sewed and standard 
screw goods in large and ever multiplying quantities. A large 
force of hands is employed, and about 1500 pairs are produced 
daily and shipped to all parts of the New England and; western 
states. The Boston office, where is kept on view a fine sample 
stock, representing the products of the factories, is under the man- 
agenient of Mr. F. M. Carter. Orders are shipped di rect from the 
factories, and all transactions are guaranteed to afford satisfac- 
tion in every case. 



GEO. C. ROCKWELL & SON, Produce Commission Merchants, 
No. 13 Richmond Street.— Among the many firms considered 
pioniinent and influential in the produce commission busi- 
ness in this city we may note the house of Geo. G. Kockwell 
& Son, which has been established many years. It dates Us exist- 
ence from 18.51, when it was establislied by Ilockwell, Higley &("o., 
.and afterwards continued by Kockwell & Adams, who were suc- 
ceeded by Rockwell Bros., who carried it on until 1874 when the 
firm was dissolved, Mr. Geo. C. Rockwell continuing the business, 
and four years ago admitted his son to an interest. As commission 
merchants tlie firm is daily in receipt of consignments of farm and 
dairy products of all kinds, and .also handle in '.arge quantities 
fresh, dried and pickled Hsli, poultry, and game when in .season. 
Potatoes and eggs are a specialty and a large local wholesale trade 
Is supplied. Both members of tlie Ann are f.amiliar with this line 
of business, and consignors may depend upon their making the 
proceeds fully commensurate with the market rates. They are 
honorable, reliable business men, and stand foremost among the 
solid commission merchants of this city, and are in a position to 
afford extr.aordiiiary advantages to those who patronize their house. 
Mr. Geo. C. Rockwell, who was born in Nova Scotia, has resided in 
Boston many years. His son, Mr. J. W. Rockwell, is a native of 
Boston. 

JOHN H, WEBB, Practical Engraver, No, 73 Hanover Street,— 
The art of engr.aving on metals is well represented in this 
city by Mr. John H. Webb, who has been established in the 
business for the past thirteen years. Mr. Webb has had 
quite an extended experience in the art, and executes work which 
is not surp,assed. He is doing a first-class business, and engr.aves 
door plates in script or solid letters; .also, numbers .and metal signs, 
and badges and name plates for machinery, and makes to order 
dies, stencils, &c., and is particularly expert in engr.avingjewelry 
and silverware, originating many beautiful designs in monograms 
and ornamental letters. He is well equipped and is provided with 
every facility for executing the very best class of work, and re^ 
ceives a liberal patronage. Mr. Webb, who was born in England, 
has lived in this country since childliood. He was born in I860, 
and during his long residence in Boston has become very popular 
in all circles. 

JCALEY & CO., Engravers and Manufacturers of Metal and 
Brass Signs, No. 88 Kingston Street.— A representative con- 
^ cern, is that of J. Caley & Co , engravers and manufactur- 
ers of metal signs. This business was founded in 1869 by 
Mr. Caley who by superior work and prompt and satisfactory busi- 
ness methods has built up what may well be termed a representa- 
tive city enterprise in his line. Tlie commodious shop is supplied 
with all requisite facilities for the advantageous prosecution of the 
work, and a full and complete stock of materials is carried. Metal 
signs of all sizes and In many styles, are manufactured, a specialty 
being made of br.ass signs. Experienced and skilful artisans are 
employed and the work turned out has a standard reputation for 
the highest degree of excellence. Mr. Caley is practical and 
skillful at his tr.ade and h.as long occupied a prominent and repre^ 
sentative position. ' 

JM. HALL & CO., House Painters, Etc., No. 113 Staniford 
Street.— The business of the painter and interior decor,atoi^ 
J isan important one and is ably represented by Messrs. J. M. 
Hall &Co. The firm have every f.acility requisite for tM 
purposes of the business, and as they are both practical men of lonii 
experience can always guarantee the best class of work and full sat' 
isfaction. They are well known as artistic fresco painters and are 
pronounced fully equal to the best in the city. Particular atten- 
tion is also given to house painting and graining .and glazing, aiVd 
estimates are furnished and contracts made for painting of evei^ 
description. The store occupied is 22x65 feet in area, in which is 
kept everything in the line of p.ainters' supplies, white lead, col- 
ors, ready mixed paints, brushes, etc. Messrs. J. M. Hall and Geo; 
Hall, the copartners, are both natives of Boston and as business 
Uicn and citizens, are held in high esteem. They occupy a leading 
position among those who give tlieir attention to house painting 
and the decoration of the interior of buildings, and dealers iu 
paints, oils, and painters' supplies. ' 



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J J. ZIEGLER &C0., Real Estate and Mortgages, Room 6, No. 15 
Congress Street.— The buying andsellingotreal estate and 
negotiating loans is a liusiness well represented by a num- 
ber of enterprising men of liigli standing standing and 
sterling worth. Prominent among them is the tirm of J. J. Ziegler 
& Co., wliose office is in Room 6, No. ISCongress Street. Tlie opera- 
tions are conducted by Mr. J. J. Ziegler, tlie liead of the firm, who 
is a gentleman well-known in this city, and one in whom the ut- 
most confldenee can be placed. He lias had quite an extended ex- 
perience in the purchase and sale of realty, and his judgment can 
always be relied on. He is familiar Willi all the desirable sites in 
and around Boston, , and always has very desirable properties to 
dispose of to those seeking first-class investinents.and by his faithful 
and conscientious zeal he has secured a substantial clientage 
whose confidence and esteem he enjoys in the liighestdegree, and 
owing to the wide range and higli character of his connections he 
Is enabled to effect transactions Fatisfactory to all concerued. 
Loans on bond and mortgage are also negotiated by Mr. Ziegler, who 
gives his prompt attention to all orders entrusted to him. Mr. 
Ziegler is a native of Switzerland, but has been a citizen of Boston 
since 1871. His patronage is large and steadily increasing, and he 
stands high in business and financial circles and in the estimation 
of all who have dealings with him. 

HENEV KELLOGG, JR., Note Broker, Nos. 25 Congress 
Square and 06 Devonshire Street.— Prominent among the 
reliable note and insurance brokers in this city is Mr. 
Henry Kellogg, Jr. This gentleman is actively engaged in 
buying and selling notes, discounting commercial paper, and is a 
licensed insurance broker, bringing to bear upon every branch of 
liis business tlie widest range of experience and Icnowledge ot fi- 
nancial matters, valuesand properties. Heestablished his business 
hero in 1872, and numbers among his permanent patrons many of 
the wealthiest and most reputable citizens of Boston and its sur- 
rounding towns, wliile his reputation for aftording accurate infor- 
mation and valuable aid to investors and property-owners is sec- 
ond to none of his contemporaries. He is prepared to place insur- 
ance policies in any company desired, quoting the lowest rates of 
premium and guaranteeing the prompt and liberal adjustment of 
all losses. No more reliable, well-informed and conscientious 
broker can be found in the city, and his success and popularity has 
been honestly won. Mr. Kellogg is a native Bostonian. 

NEWHALL & ENGLISH, Costumers, No. 47 Hanover Street 
Fred. P. Baxter, Manager.— Among Boston's leading and 
most popular costumers may be named Newhall & English, 
whose well-equipped establishment is under theefflcient 
management of Fred. P.Baxter. Here can be found at all timesan ex- 
tensive, complete and varied assortment of elegant costumes :n 
every size, style, variety and description, for balls, parties, wed- 
dings, masquerades, private theatricals, &e., at exceedingly mod- 
erate rates, while out of town parties are served also in the most 
expeditious manner at lowest terms. This thriving business was 
established in 1878, and was formerly conducted at No. 7 Tremon. 
Kow, whence it moved to tlie present commodious quarters four 
years ago, and lia.s since been continued here under Mr. Baxter's 
inauagement with highly gratifying success. Everything in the 
costuming line may here be found always, while all orders receive 
immediate attention, and the patronage of the firm, which extends 
all over Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, is large and 
influential. Mr. Baxter, its manager, is a n.ative of Bath, Me., but 
has resided in this city since three years old. He is a gentleman 
thoroughly conversant with the business in its every feature and 
detail. 

BF. BARTLETT, Periodicals, Cigars, Pictures and Framing, 
No. G7 Staniford Street.— A large business is carried on by 
^ Mr. B. F. Bartlett the well-known dealer in periodicals, 
cigars, pictures, frames, etc. He has been established for 
the past ten years and recently moved to the ne.atly fitted up store 
now occupied. The premises have dimensions of 20x35 feet and 
are specially arranged for the purposes of the business and contain 
a large, valuable a.ssortment of of the finest cigars of all the popu- 
lar brands, and all tlie leading desirable smoking and chew 
Ing tobacco, cigarettes, pipes of all kinds, and all those arti- 



cles required by those who use tobacco in its many forms 
Mr. Bartlett also makes a flue display ot all the various peri- 
odicals, magazines and the popular literature of tha day, 
and also plain and fancy st.atiuuery, blank books, albums, 
chromos, photos, and all kinds of p.ctures and frames, and a gen- 
eral line of fancy goods Framing pictures and pliotos is a special 
feature of tlie business, Mr. Baitell filling orders promptly in the 
most acceptable manner. He occupies a very desirable location 
and is conducting a first-class, substantial business. 

J A. BARRY, Millinery, No. 717 Washington Street.— A popu- 
lar millinery establishment in this city, and which is a 
recognized leader of fashions, is that conducted by J. A. 
Barry who has been established in business here since 1881, 
and during this period has built up a large, first-class trade through 
her artistic ability, and the popular prices which have been fol- 
lowed in her dealings. The fine large store occupied has a 
frontage of eighteen feet and a depth of eighty feet, is t.astetuUy 
furnis.,ed tliroughout, and is one of the finest and most attrac- 
tive establishments in its line on the street. The store is filled 
with a large stock of bonnets, hats, caps, flowers, feathers, orna- 
ments, etc., in all the latest fashions of the dav. A staff of six 
expert milliners is employed, and careful attention is given the 
execution of orders for stylish hats or bonnets, the most artistic 
effects being attained in this line, while the prices are as reason- 
able as could be expected for such excellent goods. Miss Barry 
devotes her entire attention to the direction of her affairs, and is 
an expert in her business. She is a native of Boston. 

GOULD'S Hat, Trunk, and Glove Depot, No. 747 Washington 
Street.— The business of this representative establish- 
ment was originally started in another store on Wash- 
ington Street by the present proprietor, Mr. Gould, in 
1880, and in June, 1883, it was removed to its present quarters at 
No. 747 W.asliington Street. Mr. Gould, who is a Bostonian by birth, 
and a gentleman of middle .age, was formerly a manufacturer 
of hats on Chauncy Street, and has had vast experience in busi- 
ness affairs and is fully conversant with the best methods of man- 
agement. The premises occupied for the business are neat and 
compact, and are fitted up in the most attractive manner, while 
every convenience and accommodation are at hand for the hand- 
ling ot trade. The fine display of goods to be seen here, embraces 
a full assortment of stylish hats and caps of all kinds, also a 
choice line of gloves, trunks, and traveling bags in gre.at variety. 
None but the most reliable grades of goods in the lines named, are 
kept on hand, and the brisk trade supplied, enables the proprietor 
to sell to his customers at prices that cannot be surpassed for 
cheapness. Mr. Gould devotes his entire attention to his large 
business, and aims to give the fullest satisfaction to all who have 
dealings with him. Mr. Gould makes a specialty of children's 
hats, caps, etc., and sells at wholesale and retail. 

WH. LITTLEFIELD & CO., Apothecaries, No. 55 Green 
Street.— One of the leading and best equipped phar- 
macies in this quarter of the city is the neat and well 
ordered drug store of W H. Littlefield & Co. Physi- 
cians' prescriptions and family receipts are here compounded in 
the most careful and accurate manner, in every instance from ab- 
solutely pure ingredients, while bottom prices also prevail. The 
store, which is 25x60 feet in size and situated on a busy corner, is 
tastefully appointed and admiiably kept, while two experienced 
assistants are in attendance; the proprietors exercising close per- 
sonal supervision over the laboratory. A large and carefully 
selected stock is constantly carried, embracing besides fresh and 
pure drugs, chemicals and standard medicines of all kinds, acids, 
extracts, herbs, roots, barkd, medicinal liquors, mineral waters, 
proprietory remtdies of merit and pharmaceutical specialties in 
great variety, also a full and fine assortment of toilet articles, per- 
fumes, fancy soaps, sponges, chamois and choice cigars ; special 
attention being given to prescriptions. This excellent and well 
known pluarmacy was originally established about twenty years 
ago, and in 1880 came into control of the firm whose name heads 
the sketch. Mr. W. H. Littlefield, who is sole proprietor, is an ex- 
perienced apothecary, and fully merits the large measure of popu- 
lar favor he enjoys. 



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JOHN HATCHMAN, Manufacturer of Mouldings and Picture 
Frames, No. 1019 Washington Street— In the gilding trade in 
Boston, no one is better known or has a longer or more hon- 
orable record than John Hatchnian, wlio is also a manufac- 
turer of mouldings and picture frames. Mr. Hatchman has been 
identified with the trade for over half a century and has carried 
on business with great success during that long period. He occu- 
pies a line factory, 30x75 feet in dimensions and has every modern 
facility and improvement for turning out the finest kind of work. 
He IS the oldest gilder in Boston, and as a matter of course has 
long enjoyed a trade of large dimensions both in ornamenting and 
gilding work, samples of which may be found in most of the prin- 
cipal houses and establishments of the city. For a number of 
years he has also been extensively engaged in the manufacture of 
mouldings and picture frames and he has besides a departmeut 
devoted to funeral designs in immortelles, which is under the able 
management of Mrs. Harris. Jlr. Hatchman is a native of Boston, 
and since his earliest days lias been working at the gilding trade. 

CF. TUTTLE, Real Estate, No. 113 Devonshire Street.— This 
gentleman is a well-known citizen of West Newton, prora- 
^ inent m the business circles of this city, and has been es- 
tablished as a dealer in real estate and as a commercial 
broker since 1873 He possess an intimate knowledge of the best 
residential and business properties in the city and its adjoining 
towns, and has upon his books some of the choicest bargains in real 
estate to be found in Boston. As the agent for the purchase and 
sale of realty and in the management of all interests connected 
therewith, in the collection of house and ground rents, in the ad- 
justment of taxes and assessments, in expert appraisements of 
property, in the negotiation of loans on bond and mortgage, in the 
careful and skilful management of estates, and in the arbitration 
of complicated property interests, Mr. Tuttle brings to bear large 
experience and thorough knowledge of every detail. Mr. Tuttle 
was born in New Hampshire, settling in West Newton twenty-two 
years ago, and is agentleman of wide acquaintance and high repute 
In social and business circles. 

WILLIAM L. SEXATTER, Manufacturer and Dealer in Ha- 
vana and Domestic Cigars, Etc., No. 693 Washington Street- 
—A well known prominent business man of this city en- 
gaged in the manufacture and dealing in cigars is Mr. 
William L. Sexauer. He has been established in business since 
1876, and by energy and enterprise he has achieved a wide popu- 
larity for superiority and excellence. The dimensions of the 
premises are 15x80 feet, and contain a large stock of choice cigars 
of hi8 own manufacture, and also a general line of all the favorite 
brands of Havana and domestic goods together with smokers' 
articles of every kind, and fine cut and plug chewing and also 
smoking tobacco made by the best manufacturers in the country. 
Tliese goods are all of high standard quality and are sold at prices 
as low as any others on the market. Mr. Sexauer, who is a New 
Yorker by birth, is about forty years of age. He came to Boston in 
1866. and lias since become closely identified with the affairs of the 
city. He is a practical cigar maker, and turns out a line of fine 
and medium grade Havana and domestic goods that are unex- 
celled for quality or flavor. 

MISS V. A. MILLS, Corsets and Panniers, No. 12 West Street. 
—Prominent among the enterprising business women of 
Boston is Miss V. A. Mills, of No. 12 West Street (Rooms 
Nos. 9 and 10), who is a reliable manufacturer of corsets 
and panniers to order, and has, since the inception of the enter- 
prise ill 1875, built up a widely extended and permanent patronage 
among many of the best known residents of the city. Miss Mills 
Is practically experienced in every detail of the business engaged 
in, and gives her personal supervision to the work of the eight 
skilful and painstaking hands whom she employs. She makes a 
specialty of corsets and panniers to order, and guanantees the 
quality, fit and general excellence of these goods to be strictly 
reliable in every particular, as well as reasonable in cost-price. 
Miss Mills keeps in stock a fine assortment of sample goods, and 
has fitted up her establishment with all needed conveniences and 
facilities. She is a native of Boston, and a highly respected mem- 
ber of the community. 



A J. CHILD, Mercantile Boarding and Baiting Stable, No. 37 
Kichmond Street.— A stable that has gained not only a 
high reputation, but an extensive and solid permanent 
patronage, is that conducted by Mr. A. J. Child. Mr. 
Child founded the business here in 1877 and in 1886 he formed a 
partnership with Mr. H. S. Coolidge, under the firm style of Child & 
Coolidge. In December, 1887, Mr. Coolidge retired, and Mr. Child 
again became the sole proprietor. He is a horseman of long ex- 
perience and has had a systematic and thorough training in the 
care and treatment of the noble animal. The stable Is a two-story 
brick building, measuring 80x90 feet, and this is equipped and pro- 
vided with all modern improved stable equipments of the most rc- 
ceptable kind. The building is well lighted, and thoroughly drained 
and ventilated, and first-class accommodations are afforded for one 
hundred horses and an equal number of vehicles. About two 
Imudred horses are fed here daily, and fourteen experienced 
stablemen are permanently employed. Special terms are offered 
for permanent boarders, and the establishment is a very popular 
one with horse owners in this section of the city. Mr. Child was 
bom in Connecticut in 1841, and during the Civil War he served 
with the Union forces for three years. For thirty years he has been 
a resident in Boston. 

CE. LINDALL, \faiiager Lindall's Band, No. 180 Washington 
Street.— There is perhaps not one among the many excel- 
lent bands that have came into existence of recent years 
in this city that has secured firmer hold on popular favor 
than Lindall's Military Band and Orchestra, C. E. Lindall, Mana- 
ger. This band was organized on April 17. 1887, and from its 
inception has steadily grown in popularity and patronage on ab- 
solute merit; excellent music, promptness and reliability being 
the special features contributing to its well merited success. 
The band comprises twenty-five members, and the leader is pre- 
pared to furnish first-class music for all occasions, including 
balls, picnics, weddings, street parades, etc., at popular prices. 
Mr. Lindall, who is the efficient leader and manager, is a thor- 
oughly competent and experienced musician, and prior to estab- 
lishing himself in business here had been for some years with 
Chandler's Band, of Portland, Me., his native city. Mr. Lindall also 
gives lessons on the cornet and piano, and is an expert performer 
on both instruments. 

THOS: McMAHON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Cigars, 
Tobacco, Etc., No. 280 Hanover Street.- Mr. Thomas 
McMahon has had quite an extended experience in 
the business, and during the two years he has been 
established in his present location his trade has been 
steadily growing. The store is well arranged and Is 
stocked with a choice assortment of goods, including all 
the favorite brands of imported and domestic, fine and medium 
grade cigars, and also the best br.inds of chewing .and smoking to- 
baccos and cigarettes ; also, snuffs and pipes of all kinds, and 
smokers articles generally. Besides the retail trade, Mr. McMa- 
hon has built up quite an extensive wholesale business and supplies 
a demand derived from the city and adjacent sections. Mr. Mc- 
Mahon, who has lived in Boston for about eleven years, was born 
in Kings County, Nova Scotia. 

NM. LADD, Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, No. 49 Leverett 
Street.— The popular shoe store conducted by N. M. Ladd, 
is a neat, well kept and reliable establishment, and one of 
* the leading stores of the kind in this vicinity, as well as 
one of the oldest. The business was originally started about 
thirty years ago by a Mr. Colby, and in 1884 came into control of 
the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Nothing but first- 
class goods are handled, while the very lowest prices consistent 
therewith always prevail, purch.asers being assured of receiving 
excellent value and satisfactory treatment here. The store is 
compact, ample and nicely fitted up, two efficient assistants being 
in attendance, while a large and well selected stock is kept con- 
stantly on hand, including ladies', misses', gents', youths', boys' 
and children's boots and shoes in all sizes, widths, styles and 
grades, and also rubbers and slippers. Mr. Ladd is a native of 
Andover, Mass., but a resident of Boston some years, and fully 
merits the liberal measure of popular favor he enjoys. 



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CH. SIMONDS & CO., Printers, No. 45 Temple Place.— The 
steam job printing establishment of Messrs C. H. Simonds 
^ & Co. was founded in 1838 by Mr. C. II. Simonds, wiio in 
connection with his son still continues the business. When 
Mr. Simonds first commenced business, tlie hand press was the only 
mechanical contrivance for taking an impression of raovable type, 
and il\e impressions were limited to from one to three hundred per 
hour, .according to tlie nature of the work. Now witli the aid of 
steam and modern printing presses, tliousands of impressions are 
made each liour. Messrs. Simonds' establishment has kept well in 
the front rank with modern improvements, and to-day is one of 
the best equipped printing houses in the city of Boston. Tlie 
premises occupied comprise a spacious floor 30x125 feet in dimen- 
sions, wliich is equipped with everyl-equisite for the systematic and 
successful prosecution of the business. Here forty skilled printers 
are constantly employed, and the trade of tlie house is by no means 
conflned to Boston, but extends to all sections of New England. 
Mr. Simonds is prepared to execute all kinds of newspaper and 
book composition and job work, also plain and ornamental print- 
ing in tlie highest style of art .at the lowest possible prices consis- 
tent with first-class work. All kinds of printing are executed 
promptly .and satisfaction is guaranteed. Mr. Simonds, Sr., was 
born in Boston, and is an accoiiiplislied master of his art. 

ADAMS, BLODGET & CO., Bankers, No. 20 Congress Street.— 
This house w.as establislied in January, 1886, the copartners 
being Messrs. Walter B. Adams, Win. Blodget and E P. 
Meiritt, all of whom possess great practical experience, .and 
bring .an intimate knowledge of tlie stock and bond markets to 
bear on their business, in connection with tlie prompt .and faithful 
execution of the orders of their numerous customers. The firm 
trans.act a general banking business, receiving deposits .subject to 
draft at sight. As brokers, Messrs. Adams, Blodget & Co. fill all 
orders promptly for the purchase or sale of all stocks, bonds, govern- 
ment and miscellaneous securities .as listed on the Boston or New 
York Stock Exchanges, strictly on commission, and there is noflrm 
in the city better qualified to h.andle the accounts of capitalists or 
active operators. Mr. E. P. Merritt represents the firm on the 
Stock Exchange, and the New York correspondentsofthis reliable 
house are Messrs. Winslow, Lanier & Co., and Messrs. Spencer 
Trask & Co. The firm have a private wire to New York. 

TW. TOWNSEND, Justice of the Peace, Re.al Estate, Etc.; 
No. US Devonshire Street.— Prompt and faitliful attention 
J to the interests of clients will always bringthesurereward 
of success to the agent or attorney who practices tliese vir- 
tues. Such has been the result in the case of Mr. T. W. Townseiul, 
the well-known Real Estate Agent and Justice of the Peace, whose 
offlce is located at No. 113 Devonshire Street. This gentleman has 
been establislied in the real estate business here for a period of twen- 
ty-five years, and has a reputation and standing in the real estate 
market second to none of his contemporaries. He is at all times 
prepared to buy, sell, rent and exchange city and country prop- 
erty of all kinds, on the most reasonable rates of commission, 
while he makes a le.adlng specialty of Somerville realty. His pa- 
trons come from all parts of tlie State, and his services are in spe- 
ci.al and constant demand by leading capitalists, investors and 
property-owners in this city. He has always on his books desirable 
properties to sell or rent, and he is also prepared to take the entire 
management of estiites, to collect rents, make investments, and 
to negotiate loans on bond and mortgage. Mr. Townsend is a 
native of the State of Maine, and is .also .Justice of the Peace for 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

CLARK POWERS, Musical Goods, Violins, Strings, Etc., No. S6 
Court Street.— Mr. Powers is a pr,actical violin makerand has 
achieved a wide celebrity for his success as a skilful m.aker 
and repairer. He gives particular attention to repairing and 
making violins to order and executes orders for all parts of the 
United States. Besides manufacturing violins, Mr. Powers carries 
a large v.aluable assortment of all kinds of musical instruments and 
musical meich.andise. and is doing a large first-cl.ass substantial 
business. A native of Vermont but for some years a resident of 
Boston, Mr. Powers hits alw.ays been popular in this community 
and was for a time connected with the firm of Elias Howe. 



WARREN'S MILITARY BAND AND ORCHESTRA. Jcilin P. 
Warren, Leader and Agent, No. 116 Court Street.— 
W.arren's Military Band and Orchestra, is, in all 
respects, one of the leading best-equipped and most 
popular bands of Boston. Mr. Warren, the leader and manager 
of the organization, is a gentleman of thirty-six, and a n.ative 
of Reading, Mass. He is an expert cornet player and an ex- 
perienced musician of many years' practical and successful 
experience, .as well as a young man of energy and enterprise. 
Warrens Military Band and Orcliestra was established in 
1873, and during the fifteen years of its existence has steadily 
strengthed its hold on popular favor. It numbers thirty perform- 
ers, tills number being increased to fifty at short notice when 
necessary, and music is furnished foralloccasions, including balls- 
parties, weddings, picnics, theatricals, &c.. in first-class style at 
reasonable rates. Mr. Warren h,as furnished the music during 
the p.ast two .seasons for J. F. Folsom, .at Oak Island by the Sea, 
the popular summer resort at Revere Beach. 

SLAYTON & BOYNTON. Commission Merchants for the sale of 
General Produce, No. 19 Blackstone Street.— This well ordered 
and stanch concern was established in March, 1887, and from 
its inception Messrs. Slayton & Boynton have steadily 
pushed their way to favor and prosperity. Consignments placed 
with these genflemen for disposal are judiciously h.andled. while 
returns for the same are promptly furnished in every instance; 
this being a special fe.ature of the house. Tlie firm occupy a eom- 
modious store, witli ample cool storage quarters elsewhere also, 
and carry on h.and at all times a large and fine stock, which in 
eludes butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, beans, butter, cheese, eggs 
and beans being specialties. Consignments are received from all 
parts of the United States, and all orders by telephone (No. 1761) or 
otherwise, are filled In the most expeditious and satisfactory man 
ner, .some half a dozen experienced .assistants being In attendance. 
Messrs. J. C. F. Slayton and W. W. Boynton are both natives of 
Vermont and have resided in Boston for a number of years. They 
are popular and respected members of the Chamber of Commerce. 

JOHN S. RICE & CO., Tin Can Manufacturers. Etc., Nos. 19 to 23 
.John Street.— This thriving enterprise was started in 1868. 
and during the twenty odd years of its existence the firm h<as 
maintained an unbroken careerof prosperity, its trade wliich 
is wholesale altogether, being at once 'argeand active, and extends 
throughout the whole of the New England Sl.ates. The work and 
warerooms are spaciou.i and commodious, ample and complete man- 
ufacturing and storage facilities being. at hand, while from twelve to 
twenty expert workmen are employed. The productions include 
oil cans, bakers" cans, tin kettles and tin and sheet-iron vessels of 
every description; also Evenden's Patent Wood-Jacket can, 
cracker boxes and varnish cans, while jobbing of all kind likewise 
is done to order in the most expeditious and excellent manner ; all 
work executed in this establishment being fully warranted. Mr. 
Rice, who is the sole proprietor, is a gentleman in the prime of life, 
and a native of Wayland, Mass.. but has lived in this city some 
thirty years. He is a practical and skilful tin and sheet iron worker 
himself of many years' experience in the exercise of his art, and is 
thoroughly conversant with the business m all its branches. 

CHAS. KIMBALL. Photographer, No. 140 Court Street.— Mr. 
Kimball, who is a native of Connecticut, came to Boston 
when a young man and in 1868 opened a photographic gal- 
lery achieving a flrst-cKass reputation from the start. His 
present establishment, which he has occupied for the past five 
years, includes commodious reception and operating rooms fitted 
up with excellent taste and provided with all the latest scientific 
photographing appar.atus and appliances and having every mod- 
ern convenience at hand. Mr. Kimball does a large business in 
.all branches of the .art. his customers being found not only in the 
city, but largely out of town. He h.as been singularly successful 
In every case in reproducing the expression and ch,aracteristics of 
sitters, giving a warmth to the picture and making a real souvenir 
of the subject's appearance at the time. He is especially success- 
ful in grouping, having the true instinct of pose and softening all 
those peculi.arities which more or less distinguish every individual, 
so difllcult to obtain in groups. 



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ME. NASH, Furnaces, Stoves, Ranges, Grates, Etc.. No. 
38 Essex Street.— This first-class concern was established 
in 1866, by Fawcett, & Hawkes, who conducted it under 
that style up to 1876, when the firni became Hawkes, 
Nash Si Co. Two years later Mr. M. E. Nash succeeded to the sole 
control of the business which lie still retains. The premises occu- 
pied are 18x50 feet in dimensions with a shop in rear 40x40 feet. A 
large stock of furnaces, stoves, ranges, grates, etc., is carried in 
the store, the principal line being Nash's Improved Furnaces, which 
are made entirely of cast iron and are so constructed as to combine 




E. Davis, who was reared in the business and is familiar with it in 
every detail. He is a native of Boston and resides at Cambridge, is 
an owner of vessels and a business man of considerable prominence 
and deserved popularity. His store has an area of 25x126 feet, and 
is fitted up and appointed with every appliance and convenience 
for conducting business on a large scale. The stock is a large and 
comprehensive one, and it embraces everything in the line of 
staple and fancy groceries, flour, molasses, ropes, cordage, oils, 
paints, and everything required in the provisioning of sliips. A 
large trade is done with vessels coming to this port, and the busi- 
ness partakes of both a wholesale and retail character. Several 
assistants are employed and orders are filled promptly and at the 
lowest possible rates. 

CF. ROBINSON, Produce Commission Merchant, and Dealer 
in Butter, Cheese iind Eggs, No. 74 BUackstoue Street.— The 
reliable and well known house of C. 1'". Kobinson, general 
proiluce commission merchautaiid dealer in butter, cheese 
and eggs, was established about eighteen years ago by the firm of 
Brooks and Robinson, who conducted the same up to 1874, when 
Mr. Robinson assumed sole control, and has since continued it 
alone with uninterrupted success Everthing in the line of fruits 
and country produce is handled on commission, while a general 
jobbing business is carried on also in dairy products, cheese, etc., 
and consignments placed with this concern are judiciously dis- 
posed of, and returns promptly made for the same in every in- 
stance. Mr. Robinson occupies a sp,acious basement store with 
ample and excellent facilities, .and employs several experienced 
salesmen A large and carefully assorted stock is constantly car- 
ried on hand, comprising butter, cheese and eggs, poultry and 
game in season, beans, apples, onions, potatoes, domestic fruits 
vegetables, etc. ; eggs being a leading specialty of the house, and 
the trade, which is principally of a jobbing nature is quite exten- 
sive. Mr. Robinson was born in the state of Maine, but has resided 
in this city over twenty-one years. He is a man of thorough ex- 
perience in the trade, is a well known member of the Boston Fruit 
and Produce Exchange. 



perfect combustion of fuel with great radiating power, durability, 
and ease of management, qualities which render them the most 
economical and desirable in use. Several thousands of these furna- 
ces have been placed in churches, school houses, stores, public 
buildings, private residences, etc., and have given universal satis- 
faction. Mr. Nash employs from six to eight men in his establish- 
ment both in manufacturing .and in repairs for Fawcett&Hawkes' 
furnaces and ranges. The trade is extensive all over New Eng- 
land. 

CLARENCE A. DORR. Note Broker, No. 55 State Street.— Mr. 
Dorr has had vast experience in his branch of financial en- 
terprise, and on November 1, 18t)9. embarked in business on 
his own account. For sixteen years he has been located in 
the same building in which his office now is. and he has occupied 
his present office for more than a dozen years. His long ex- 
perience and his n.atural adaptability and sound judgment well 
fit him for the successful and satisfactory carrying on of the 
important and responsible business entrusted to him. Mr. 
Dorr deals in all kinds of commercial paper corporation, city, 
town and railroad loans, and .also collateral loans for savings 
banks and trusts, etc. He controls a very large business, and is 
possessed of every facility by telephonic, private telegraphic and 
correspondence service for securing the latest quotations on the 
principal exchanges in the country for all classes of securities. For 
promptand faithful execution of all commi.ssions entrusted to him, 
Mr. Dorr is thoroughly reliable. He was born in Burlington. 

JOHN DAVIS & SON. Ship Stores, etc.,No.2W Commercial and No 
179 Fulton Streets.— Among the most popular, old established 
and reliable concerns engaged in this line of trade in the city 
is that of Messrs. John Davis & Son. When this business was 
established in 1949, it was founded by the fi rm of Davis & Howe. The 
firm afterwards underwent three or four changes. First it became 
John Davis & Son. then Davis & Coker, and 1876, .John Davis & Son 
again. The .senior member of this firm died in 1880, and under this 
firm name the business has since been conducted by his son, Mr. J. 



GH LAW, Musical Instruments, No 178 Washington Street. 
—In the sale of brass and string instruments and musical 
^ merchandise gener.ally, the house of Mr. G H. Law, m.ay 
be said to have attained its well known reput.ation by a 
combination of both the essentials mentioned. In supplying the 
trade throughout the country, and in furnishing bands and orches- 
tras with the above named goods to order, this house has unques- 
tionably been given a prominence to which but few of its com- 
peers in the country can lay claim to. The proprietor established 
his business here in September, 1883. and quickly secured a 
national reputation and built up a ti:ide that is now co-extensive 
with the country. The demands of brass bands and orchestras 
are promptly met with every description of instruments and sup- 
plies needed, .and the house also deals extensively in sheet music 
and miscellaneous merchandise, besides furnishing music for all 
occasions. Mr. Law is a nativeot Littleton, Mass., and is known 
in this city and in musical circles throughout the land as a reliable, 
progressive business man. 

AD. CARLETON, Silver and Gold Plater. No. 73 Hanover 
Street.— No industry perhaps is more indispensable than 
^ that which pertains to the art of gold, silver and nickel 
plating. Mr. Carleton has been engaged in this business 
since 1851. He was formerly located on Washington Street.and after 
wiirds for fifteen years on Brattle Street, and two years ago moved 
to the very desirable premises now occupied. He does plating for 
the trade and to order, and his knowledge of all branches of the 
business is second to none. He gives particular attention to plat- 
mg harness mountings, carriage trimmings and hardware, and 
makes a special business of replating table ware, and keeps in 
stock a great variety of plated letters, and escutcheons, pew num- 
bers and door plates, etc., and also repolishes and laquers old 
brass work of every description. He also makes to order and re- 
pairs old fashioned hall clocks. All work executed by Mr. Carle- 
ton Is warranted. He is a native of Vermont, and came to Boston 
moio than forty years ago, and has acquired a well deserved repu- 
tation as an electro-plater. 



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ROBERT CARRINGTON, Book-binder, No. 299 Washington 
Street.— The bools-biiideis' trade is one of tlie branches of 
sliilled industry to which much and able attention is ac- 
I corded in tills gre.it commercial mart, and in tins connec- 

] tion as one of the most popular exponents is mentioned JVlr. Rob- 
ert Carringtou wliose premises occupy an eligible business site at 
No. 299 Washington Street, opposite tlie Old South Cliurcli. Tlie 
commodious and well arranged establislnnent is equipped with tlie 
newest and best improved book-binding methods and appliances 
and all work pertaining to the trade is executed in tlie liigliest de- 
gree of artistic and mechanical excellence. Mr. Carrington em- 
ploys a full complement of experienced liands and is prepared to 
execute promptly and satisfactorily morocco, tree calf, and Eng- 
lish colored calf work, with gilt, red and marbled edges at tlie 
lowest rates, compatible with lirst-class work. He enjoys a large 
and liberal patronage composed of the best city custom and the 
general business is of most prosperous aggregate. Mr. Carrington 
was born in England, when he early learned and became an ex- 
pert at the book-binders' trade. He came to Boston in 1881 and in 
the following year embarked in tlie enterprise with which he has 
since been both prominently and prosperously identified. 

ALLEN & GINTER, Manufacturers of Cigarettes and Smoking 
Tobacco, E. K. Danbrow, Manager, No. 61 Hanover Street. 
— One of the leading concerns in this country engaged in tlie 
manufacture of superior grades of cigarettes and smoking 
tobaccos are Messrs. Allen and Ginter, whose extensive factories 
are located at Richmond, Virginia, and London, England, and 
wliose trade extends not only to all parts of the American Conti- 
nent, but abroad The Arm have for some years had a wholesale 
branch establishment at No. 61 Hanover street, Boston, which is 
under the management of Mr. E. K. Danbrow, who, two years ago, 
succeeded Mr. Charles G. Clark in the control of the business in this 
city and throughout the New England States, Mr. Danbrow was, 
prior to his removal to Boston, engaged in the firm's New York 
house. Mr. Danbrow occupies a commodious office, where he car- 
ries a fine sample stock, and goods are shipped from the factory 
direct to dealers in all parts of the New England States. A very 
extensive and growing business is done through this house, and 
dealers find it a profitable one at which to trade. Messrs. Allen & 
Ginter's cigarettes and smoking tobaccos are regarded by con- 
sumers as of superior excellence, and their goods have such a uni- 
versal sale and appreciation as to be beyond the limit- of praise. 

C BERRY, Bottler of Lager Beer, also Wholesale Dealer in 
Ales, Wines and Liquors, No. 84 Leverett Street.— A popu- 
I lar house in Boston is that of Mr. C. Berry, who carries on 
an active business as a bottler of the Ph. Best Brewing 
Co.'s Milwaukee, and Roessle's Centennial Premium lager beer, 
and also as a wholesale dealer in ales, wines and liquors. He es- 
tablished ills enterprise ten years ago, in Cambridgeport, continu 
ing there until the passage of the local prohibitory law in 1887. 
when he removed to this city, where his trade has since become 
largely increased. The spacious store occupied hjis dimensions of 
20x90 feet, .and is equipped with every facility for the convenient 
and satisfactory transaction of business. Employment is afforded 
six experienced liands. A large .stock is carried and a leadingspe- 
cialty is made of catering to a first-cLass family trade. The 
patronage is derived from all parts of the city and its suburbs 
Orders by mail or express are given the promptest attention, and 
goods are delivered at the shortest notice and without delay. Mr. 
Berry, who was born in Switzerl.and, has resided in the United 
States for the past twenty years. He is thoroughly acquainted 
witli all the demands of the trade in which he is engaged. 

DU BIN & CARROLL. Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, No. 8 Cen- 
tral Wharf .—The firm name of Dublin & Carroll is celebrated 
throughout all this section of the country as that of manufac- 
turers of the finest and most popular cigars extant. Their 
fame is based strictly on the merits of their goods, which are pro- 
nounced unrivalled by the most critical experts. Amongst their 
brands are included the Boston Dandy, D. C. & S., New England Star, 
Gladiator, No. 8, and A No. 1. This firm occupy spacious and well- 
equipped quarters at No. 8 Central Wharf, and have been es- 
tablished in the business, as manufacturers of fine cigars only, 



since 1884. To-day the house ranks first every way, and the part- 
ners, Messrs. Samuel Uubin and James W. Carroll, are worthy ex- 
ponents of one of the leading American industries. The premises 
occupied for trade purposes comprise two finors, 25x75 feet each and 
employment is given to from twenty to twenty-five expert cigar- 
makers. Such brands of cigars as Number Eiglit and the New Eng- 
land Star are practically supplanting all rival productions wher- 
ever they are introduced, the trade of the house is rapidly increas- 
ing. Tlie copartners are both natives of Russia, practical cigar- 
makers of large experience and young men of marked business 
ability. 

ARTHUR L. HAYDEN, Manufacturer and De.iler in Gent's 
Fine Boots and Shoes, No. ueWasliington Street.— A hirgely 
patronized and excellent Washington Street shoe store, is 
the popular emporium of Arthur L. Hayden, manufacturer 
and dealer in fine boots and shoes. The goods to be found in this 
establishment are of a very superior character, alike as tone.atness, 
quality of material and workmanship: Mr. Hayden receiving (uders 
from all parts of the country. The store i.s compact and neat, v\ith 
shops attached, and several expert hands are employed— fine cus- 
tom work being a specialty. A first-class assortment of hand- 
made boots and shoes, of every size, style and vaiiety, is always 
kept in stock, and patrons can rely upon getting an Al article and 
satisfactory treatment in every instance here, while the prices pre- 
vailing also are maintained at the very lowest figures consistent 
therewith. Mr. Hayden, who is a gentleman of middle age, and a 
native of Quincy, Mass., is a practical and experienced workman 
himself of many years' experience. He established himself in 
business here in Boston in 1873, occupying the present quarters 
since 1880, and from the .start he has enjoyed an excellent patron- 
age. 

RF. MURRAY, Dealer in Provisions, No. 16 Leverett Street. 
—One of the o'dest, most popular and representative re- 
tail dealers in provisions in Boston, is Mr. R. F. Murray 
who has been established in the business here since 1848. 
He conducts an extensive letHil trade in meats, fruits and vegeta- 
bles, handling daily, immense quantities of these supplies, fresh 
from tlie hands of the producer, and delivering them to all parts of 
the city. He gives the business tlie benefit of his large and valua- 
ble experience and close personal attention in .all its departments, 
and is in a position to place all transactions upon a thorouglily sub- 
stantial and satisfactory footing. His store is a model of neatness, 
cleanliness and orderly management. Here is to be found at .all 
times the finest stock in the market, including beef, pork, lamb, 
veal and mutton, smoked, salt and corned meats, lard, hams and 
sausage, green and dried fruits, and vegetables in tlielr sea.son. 
The meats handled by Mr. Murray are tlie choicest that can be se- 
cured from any section of the country, and are supplied to patrons 
at prices which are invarhably fair .and equitable. Mr. Murray is a 
native of New Hampshire, and known throughout this community 
as a popular tradesman. 

DR. A. J. HOLLAND, Dentist, No. 1C59 1-2 Washington Street, 
—Among the most successful and foremost dental practi- 
tioners in this section of the city, may be mentioned 
the name of Dr. A. J. Holland. Dr. Holland, who is a 
young man and a native of Limerick, Maine, is a thoroughly 
practical and expert dentist, with many years' experience in the 
exercise of his profession, and is a thorough master of the art both 
in its mechanical and scientific features, having acquired his skill 
in one of the leading dental offices in the city. He commenced 
pr.actice on his own account in 1884. and soon established himself 
in popular favor and confidence owing to the general satisfaction 
rendered to those employing his professional services. Dr. Hol- 
land occupies finely appointed and well equipped offices, all the 
latest improved apparatus and dental appliances being at hand, 
and .attends to everytliing comprehended In modern deiilistry in 
the most reliable and excellent manner. Teeth are extracted, 
filled .and .adjusted with judgment and .skill, at popular rates, gas 
or ether being administered, when desired, with absolute safety, 
while plates are inserted and gums skilfully treated also, and artl 
flcial work likewise in all its branches is executed in the very best 
form of the art. 



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ADOLPH WOLFF, Watch Maker, Jeweler and Optician, NO n 
Kiieeland Street and No. 1323 Tremont Street.— Aniong tin- 
well-known and prominent local exponents of the jewelry 
trade will be found Mr. Adolph Woltf, watchmaker, jeweler, 
ana optician. Mr. Wolff is a native of Germany, where he early 
ac(iuired an expert knowledge of his dual trade. In 1872 he 
came to Boston and in the following year began business at No. 
1323 Tremont Street, In the Highl.ands, where he slill ha.saflne 
store and prosperous trade. In the early part of 1886 he increased 
the compass of his enterprise by opening the Kneeland Street 
store. The spacious salesroom, 15x40 feet ni size, is fitted up in a 
cxivenient and attractive style, and in the large show window and 
wall and counter cases, is shown a remarkably fine stock of dia- 
mond.?, jewelry, silverware, watches, clocks and optical goods, 
carefully selected ni each department, from the best makes and 
newest styles and novelties. Everything in the line of repairing 
of all kinds of complicated work isskiUfully done Several assist- 
ants are employed, and among his many and highly desirable p.a- 
trons Mr. Wolff is regarded as one of .ablest and deservedly sue 
cessful city exponents of his trade 

^SCAR C. PULLEN, Central Market, Nos. 285 to 289 Tremont 
Street —A leading and representative establishment in its 
important branch of ttade in this part of the city is that of 
Mr Oscar C. Pullen. proprietor of the "Central Market." 
The spacious premises are most attiactivly fitted up with natural 
wood finish and fixtures, marble slabs, etc., and the large double 
front is composed entirely of plate glass show windows. In the 
general complete equipment are represented all the modern con- 
veniences and facilities lor the advantageous handling and display 
01 goods, it is the largest .and finest retail family market in the 
city, and the stock of beef, pork, mutton, veal, etc., etc., is large* 
compreliensive and carefully selected from the best .sources of 
supply. Twelve .assistants are required in attending to the 
wants of the numerous patronage which represents and largely in- 
cludes the high -class family restaurant and hotel trade on this side 
of town. Mr Pullen is a native of Maine, and a priictical and ex- 
perienced merchant in his line. He has been established since 
1882, .and, in the interval, by well directed and enterprising man- 
agement, has reared what may well be termed an eminently suc- 
cessful and representative business in the local provision trade. 

HENRY SIEBERT, Leather and Shoe Findings, No. 52 Eliot 
Street — One of the most successful of the business houses 
in Boston in the special line of trade is that of Mr. Henry 
Siebert, dealer in leather and findings, and m.anufacturerof 
boot and shoe uppers. Mr F. F. Siebert established the business 
In 1862 and conducted it with marked ability until 1883, when he 
was succeeded by his son, a business man of ability, having a 
thorough knowledge of the details connected therewith. The 
dimensions of the premises are 20x72 feet, and as regards equip- 
ment and faculties .are perfect and complete. From three to five 
hands are employed and a large business Is carried on, the stock 
of leather and findings, embracing everything In that line, includ- 
ing French and American calf skin and sole leather of the best 
quality. All kinds of boot and shoe uppers are manufactured, a 
specinlty being made of ordered work. Mr. Siebert, who was born 
in Boston, Is a very popular business man. 

HENRY H. GOLDBERG, Manufacturer of Fine Cigars, No. 77 
Cambridge Street.— This gentleman began his present 
business in April, 1887, and has since had the good fortune 
to enjoy a steadily increasing trade, winning permanent 
customers both in the city and the surrounding towns. The busi- 
ness premises are compact and amply commodious, comprising a 
store and work shops, excellently fitted up with all necessary con 
veniences. Four hands are employed and an active business is 
carried on in the manufacture of first class cigars Only the best 
quality tobacco leaf is used, and the goods turned out are unsiir 
passed for general superiority and for the enjoyable smoke which 
they yield A leading specialty is made of the ' Middlesex." a ten 
centcigar.and "147" and' 77." afivecent straight cigar, which are 
held in high lavo.* by judges of first quality goods Both a whole- 
sale and retail tr.ade i« catered to. Mr Goldberg, has resided in 
the United States for the past sixteen years. 



GAY & JEFFREY, Provisions, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, 
and Country Produce, No. 152 Cambridge Street.— For more 
than forty years this has been a popular house lor meat 
supplies of every description, and has always commanded 
a liberal, substantial and inHuential patronage. For a consider- 
able period the business was run by Mr. James G. Jefferey, in 
whose service Mr. Fred. H. Jeffrey, one of the present proprietors, 
was for a period of eight years. In the early part of 1888, Mr. 
Fred. H. Jeffrey and Mr. Gay formed a partnership and purchased 
the business which they have conducted with great success. The 
market is spacious in size, fitted up with all conveniences for fa- 
cilitating the trade, and for the preservation of meats and perish- 
able articles during the hot terms. The firm carry a fine stock of 
slaughtered meats, including beef, pork, lamb, mutton, veal, sau- 
sages, hams, shoulders, tongues, tripe, salt, corned and smoked 
meats, allot which are kept fresh and pure. The linn have also 
alwiiys on hand a full line of foreign and domestic fruits and 
country produce of all kinds. Competent assistants are employed, 
and customers are treated with liberality and promptness. The 
proprietors are both natives of this state. 

FRANK M. PARKER, Provisions, Fruits, Vegetables. Etc., No. 
61 Cambridge Street. Mr. Parker founded his business two 
years ago. meeting with the best of success from the start, 
and has continued to carry on a steadily increasing trade. 
The commodious store occupied, 22x40 feet in dimensions, is fitted 
up in the most approved style with all the requisite appliances and 
conveniences, and it is at all times kept in neat, cleanly order A 
large stock is kept for s.ale, supplies being received fresh daily from 
the most reliable sources of su|iply and the finest grades of fresh 
and salt me.ats, beef, mutton, lamb, pork, poultry, lard, butter, 
eggs, fruits and vegetables are .at all times to be loiuul here— all 
offered at the lowest m.arket prices. A staff of intelligent assistants 
are employed, and customers are waited upon in the most prompt 
and considerate manner. Orders are taken and goods sent free to 
any part of the city. Honest weight and fair prices are fixed rules 
in this establishment. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Parker en- 
joys a large business and social acquaintance. 

J P. JOHNSON, Produce and Provisions, No. 60 Shawmut 
Avenue— A leading local establishment in its important 
^ field of commercial activity is th.at of Mr. J. P. Jolinson, 
dealer in produce and provisions. The spacious and 
attr<actively fitted up market is supplied with all the modern con- 
veniences and facilities for the advantageous handling and display 
of goods and the stock of meats, vegetables, fruits and country 
produce gener.ally, is carefully selected in each department from 
the best sources of supply and with due regard fo: the require- 
ments of the high-class family and other trade from which its 
large and liberal patronage is chiefiy derived. Mr. Johnson is a 
gentlem.anof wide experience in his line of business. After acquir- 
ing a thorough knowledge of the trade, he established for himself 
m 1S78 in South Boston. In 18S5 he removed to the present site. 
Mr. Johnson employs three experienced .assist.ants and two 
delivery teams which are kept busy delivering gcods to all parts of 
the city. 

AV. HEALD, Meats. Fruits, Vegetables. Etc., No. !i;6 Eliot 
Street.— The history of this house since the inception 
of the business in 1871. marks a record of unbroken 
prosperity. Before Mr. Heald began business on his 
own accimnt he was identified as an employee with the pro- 
vision trade, and upon his enterprise he brings long practical 
experience and great business ability to bear. His store, 
which has an area of 25x40 feet, is excellently equipped ;uul ar- 
ranged for the business, is adequately provided with cold storage, 
and IS at all times a model of cleanliness and order presenting a 
neat inviting appearance The stock is abundant to meet all de- 
mands and IS maintained at the highest standard of excellence. It 
embraces the choicest cuts of beef mutton lamb, veal jiork etc , 
hams sausages, poultry, foreign and domestic fruits and vegeta 
bles m .season, etc, A brisk trade is done not only in the city, but 
in the suburbs, .and courteous and prompt attention is given to all 
customers Three assistants are employed ami a delivery wagon 
is in constant service. 



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PHENIX HOTEL, I. M. Soutliwick. Proprietor, Nos. 21-31 Green 
Street.— One of the most popular and best patronized among 
tlie low-priced liostelries in tliis quarter ot tlie city is tlie 
well-known Plienix Hotel, I. M. Southwiclt, proprietor. It 
Is centrally located, horse cars and coaches passing the door every 
two minutes up to midnight, and is kept open all hours. The hotel 
premises occupy the lour upper floors of a substantial flve-story 
structure, and contain about fifty commodious, airy, nicely ap- 
pointed bedrooms, and is neatly furnished throughout, the terms 
being 50c, 75c and $1.00 per day tor rooms, for each person, singly 
or en siiite. Special rates also are made for regular patrons and 
persons sojourning for an extended period. The hotel is thoroughly 
ventilated, well lighted and excellently heated, and withal admir- 
ably conducted ; and for those desiring quietness, security and 
solid comfort at cheap rates is unsurpassed by any establishment 
of the kind in the city. This deservedly popular house was es 
tablished many years ago, and after several changes m 1871 came 
Into control of the present proprietor, under whose judicious and 
excellent management it has since been conducted with uniform 
and gratiiying success. Mr. Southwick, is a Vermonter by birth, 
and a man of thorough business ability, nnd fully merits the very 
liberal patronage the Phenix has enjoyed ever since he assumed 
control of the house. 

EDWARD A. LANE. Painter, Glazier, Decorator. Paper H.anger, 
Etc., No. 96 New Staniford Street.— For the past seventeen 
years Mr. Lane has been engaged in the same line of busi. 
ness at Manchester-by-the-Sea, where he now has a finely 
equipped store and workshop, and where his headquarters are lo- 
cated. In October, 1886, he opened a branch establishment in Bos- 
ton, at No. 1 Province Court, and in January, 1888. he removed 
therefrom to his present address, No. 96 New Staniford Street. 
Here he occupies a handsomely appointed store, connected with 
which is a well equipiied workshop. Mr. Lane carries on hand 
here a large and first-class assortment of paints.oils, varnishes, glass, 
brushes, painters" and artists' materials of every description, to- 
gether with a complete line— representing all the latest novelties— 
of wall papers, borders, dados, frieze, and picture mouldings. 
Papers are furnished and put on by exi)erieiiced workmen at the 
lowest prices, and estimates are furni.shed foi the supply of large 
quantities. Painting and decorating in all the branches, including 
sign writing, interior and exterior work, lettering, and frescoing 
are executed in the highest style of the art. Glazing also forms a 
prominent feature of the business All contracts are executed in 
the most superior and expeditious manner. From ten to thirty 
hands are employed in the business and satisfaction is guaranteed 
to all patrons. Mr. Lane is a native of Gloucester, Mass., a practi- 
cal paiuter, and an enterprising business man. 

THOS. J. CONDON. Provisions. Teas, Coffees, Spices Flour, But- 
ter Etc., No. 9<.I3 W.xshington Street.— One of the most enter- 
prising houses in the grocery and provision trade in the city, 
is that of Mr. Thomas J. Condon, who succeeded in 1887 the 
firm of O'Brien & Condon which established the business in 1886. 
Mr. Condon occupies a commodious store at No. 993 Washington 
Street, 15x4,5 feet in ijimensions and carriesa large and selectstock 
of the finest provisions, teas, coffees, spices, flour, butter, etc., 
which he seils at the lowest cash prices, being able to compete with 
the leading houses in the trade both in this respect as well as in the 
quality of the goods he carries in stock. He has already built up a 
large trade in the neighborhood and employs three clerks to attend 
to its various details. Mr. Condon, who is a young man, was 
formerly clerk with one of the loreiiiost houses in the grocery tr.ade 
here, and has a thorough knowledge of the requirements of a first- 
class business. Recognized in tr.ade circles as a reliable and push- 
ing merchant, he has been enabled to take a leading position in his 
line in a comparatively brief period and has justifled in every way 
the high opinion his friends entertained of his mercantile capacity. 

ORMAND F. NIMS, Apothecary, No. SO Cambridge Street.— Mr. 
Oimand F. Nims, the well-known apothecary has been es- 
tablished in the business here since March, 1854, and has 
developed an influential and extensive patronage not only 
with the general public, but .also with the medical profession, with 
whom no house in the city stands in better favor. The premises oc- 



cupied are very commodious and well appointed. The various de 
partments are under the personal supervision of tlie experienced 
proprietor, and the stock displayed embraces the purest drugs and 
chemicals, standard proprietary and family medicines, essences and 
extracts, surgical instruments and appliances, perfumery, toilet 
articles, and druggists' sundries generally. The goods are selected 
with sjiecial reference to their strength and freshness. A specialty 
is made of Nims' Syrup of Tar and Wild Cherry a valuable remedy 
for colds, and Nims' Expectoral and Croup Compound for tightness 
of the chest and lungs Popular prices prevail in all branches of 
the business. Mr Nims is a native of New Hampshire, a resident 
of Boston for the past forty-five years, and highly regarded in tlie 
city 

FRANK E. GILLIS, Photographer, No. 164 Leverett Street.— 
Mr. Frank E. Gillis the artistic jihotographer, has, after 
years of earnest and patient endeavors, gained the repu- 
tation ot doing artistic work in all blanches ot the photo- 
gr.iphic art. It is not necessary to particularize or call atten- 
tion to his work in general, as he lays claim to no one particular 
specialty, but does claim to do the best of work in the making of 
all kinds of neg.itives, His life-size portraits, made from the nega- 
tive are much admired, as they should be, by those who are con- 
versant with works ot art. Another feature that he give more 
than ordinary attention to is his cabinet pictures, in which he h.as 
achieved such successas to be entitled tothe distinction of .artistic 
photographer. Mr. Gillis started business in liis present uremi-ses 
in 1883 and has since developed a patronage ot a most substantial 
and influential character. He occupies the second floor ot a two- 
story building and this is divided into reception room, operating 
room, etc. Tiie establishment throughout is tastefully and appro- 
priately fitted up and is equipped with .all the latest improved 
photographic appliances, including the instantaneous process. 
Mr. Gillis is aided by two experienced and competant assistants 
and his portraits are distinguished by their life-like character and 
beauty ot finish. To these facts are to be attributed the large pa- 
tronage accorded, both in tlie city, Cambridge and Somerville 
Mr. Gillis is a native ot Buffalo, N. Y., and h.as resided in Boston 
tor the past seven years. 

J SMITH & SON, Fresh, Pickled and Smoked Fifh, Etc., No. 
470 Tremont Street —Among the most proniinenf and popu- 
lar of the dealers in all kinds of fish in this section of the 
city are Messrs. J. Smith & Son. The business is an old 
established one, having been founded in 1863, on W.ashingfon 
Street, by the senior member of the Arm, who, in 1868. took his son, 
into partnership. In 1884 the business was removed to its present 
quarters, which comprise a neatly appointed store, 20x45 feet in 
area, and which is always kept in a clean, inviting condition while 
a flrst-cl.ass, extensive stock is ever presented for the choice ot cus- 
tomers and at prices unsurpassed by those of any otheer house in 
the tr.ade. The flrm handle all kinds of fresh pickled and smoked 
fish, oysters, lobsters, scallops, quahauirs and South Shore clams, 
and a specialty Is made of New York and Monument oysters. 
Fresh supplies are received daily, and prompt and satisfactory 
attention is given to the filling of all orders in the city or suburbs. 
The firm have the finest of connections, and transact a large and 
permanent trade. The proprietors are native of Boston. 

TS SWIFT, Horse Shoer, No 53 Pitts Street.— Mr. Swift beg,an 
business here eight years ago, and has built up a trade 
connection of a substantial and influential character. He 
occupies a commodious workshoii, which is thorouglily 
equipped with the latest improved mechanical appliances for 
securing the most satisfactory results, and three competent and 
experienced workmen are permanently employed. Mr. Swift 
shoes horses upon correct principles, and is particularly success- 
ful with interfering horses and those troubled with quarter crack. 
The work is alw,ays neatly executed, and as an evidence of the 
skill exercised by Mr. Swift it need only be added that he is highly 
endorsed and recommended, and is in the fullenjoymentof a large 
and prosperous business. Ml-. Swift has had a vast experience in 
his line, and is prompt .and reliable in the fulfilment ot all orders 
entrusted to him. He is a native of Massachusetts, and a resident 
of Cambridge. 



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JE. POWER, Designer and Engravei-, No 15 Cornliill.— 
A recent addition to the manufacturing establisli- 
ments of tlie city is that of J. E, Power, manufac- 
turing engraver, Mr. Power, wlio is a young man 
and a native Bostonian, has had an experience of seven years in 
the designing and engraving business and is thorouglily trained 
in every department of the trade. Six months ago he opened his 
present establislinient at No. 15 Cornhill Street., and lias aiready 
earned a place in the front ranlc of engraving specialists for the 
fine character of flie work lie has executed. His line of work is 
not conhned to any p.n tn:', ;•:■!;■.; .m' .■>!-i..k- from furnishing 




small class medals to largo uliurc;li njonuui.ils in old l)r,iss ; he also 
is a furnisher of door plates, badges for police, tlremen, societies 
and others. The furnishing of original dies for regimental 
badges is an important branch of the business and in 
which a marked success has been achieved. His trade 
has steadily advanced and his patronage extends not only in 
New England, but through the west and south. Mr. Power is a 
young man of advanced ideas, intelligentaiid industrious, and will 
continue to upliold the standard of tine work for which he is cele- 
brated. Knowing that an increase of business is the only result 
that can accrue from such efforts, he is in the way of building up a 
splendid permanent business. 

AC. HOWES. Dealer in Hotel and Restaurant Supplies, and 
Manufacturer of the celebrated Brunei Baking Powder, 
I No. 4 Liberty Square.— Mr. Howes was one of the founders 
of, and was for some time connected with, tlie Boston 
Baking Powder Company. In the summer of 18SS he founded his 
present enterprise, and the venture li.is been attended by the 
most marked and encouraging success. He devotes his energies 
exclusively to the manufacture of tlie celebrated Brunei Baking 
Powder and to furnishing hotels and restaurants with baking pow- 
der, tea, coffee, salads, chow-chow and other supplies. He carries 
an extensive slock and h.as the best of t.acilities for promptly fill- 
ing all orders on terms that cannot be easily duplicated by any 
other concern. He has within a short period developed a very ex- 
tensive trade in all parts of Massachusetts, and his business con- 
nection in Boston is a most active and prosperous one, demonstrat- 
ing at once that the proprietors of hotels and restaurants find it to 
their advantage to place their order.s in his hands. Mr. Howes is 
a gentleman of middle age, an energetic, reliable business man, 
and a resident ol Somerville. 



COL. WM. BEALS, Public Decorator, Etc., No. 96 Court Street. 
—The oldest and most successful public decorator in New 
England is Col. Wm. Beals. Colonel Beats, who is now 
seventy-two years old established this business forty years 
ago, since which period he has built up a liberal, influential and 
permanent patronage in all sections of the United States. He oc- 
cupies three commodious rooms, and keeps in stock a superior 
as.sortment of flags and all kinds of decorations for banquets, 
public celebrations, balls, etc. He is ably .assisted by Mr. Geo. W. 
Ureenlief, and the flag department is carefully supervised by his 
wife Mrs. Wm. Beals. Col. Beals manuf.actures promptly to order 
all kinds of tinsel ornaments for decorations on ijublic occasions, 
also stars, tinsel knights, gold eagles, spears, banners, shields, 
etc., while his prices in all cases for the finest artistic work is 
exceedingly moderate. He did a large amount of first-class deco- 
rative work for the Centennial and latterly made the splendid 
banner carried by the Massachusetts Republicans to the Chicago 
Convention. This banner w.as six by nine feet, velvet, bound 
with gold, and had 100 letters incribed on it with three eagles. 
The motto of this banner was, " Home Market Club, Boston, Ame' 
rican Wages for American Workmen: American Markets for 
People. Home Markets for Home Manufactuiers; Protection for 
American Homes" This banner was greatly admired by experts 
and created great enthusiasm among all classes of Kepublicans, 
owing to its beauty, artistic design, and superior finish. This ban- 
ner under which General Harrison was nominated at Chic.igo is to 
go to Washington and will be used at the inauguration, next 
Marcli. Col. Beals knows more people in New England, than any 
other man. He was present in IS'2.5 at the laying of the corner 
stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, when Lafayette was tliere, 
also at the foundation of the Pilgrim Monument, Plymouth. In 
1834 he organizea a Volunteer Corps of boys under tifteen years 
of age, which was reviewed by General Jackson on Boston Com- 
mon. Many of these boys have since became very prominent 
men. The Colonel was born in Boston. 

EDMUND W. NOYES, Printer, No. 63 Kilby Street.— An expe- 
rienced and accomplished representative of the printers 
craft is Mr. Edmund W. Noyes, of No. 63 Kilby Street, who 
first began business in 1871 as a member of the firm of 
Noyes & Poole. This firm was dissolved in 1876, and Mr. Noyes has 
since conducted his business alone and with a success that demon- 
strates he Is a thorough master of it and affords abundant satis- 
faction to all who favor him with their patronage. For his print- 
ing department he occupies two floors. The equipments are full 
and complete and embrace every variety of modern, antique, 
fancy and plain types, four steam-power presses and all the para- 
phernalia incident to a first-class printing office. Six operatives 
are in service, and all kinds of fine mercantile printing are exe- 
cuted here and in the highest style of the art. The specialty of 
the house is commercial work, and the relations subsisting be- 
tween this establishment and many leading mercantile houses of 
the city are such that prove Mr. Noyes to be a favorite in his line 
of trade. His success has been great, and the secret of it lies in 
the turning out of first-class work promptly at reasonable prices. 

THOMAS SfNGLETON & SON, Manufacturers of Rich Cut and ] 
Plain Glass Ware, Nos. 39 and 41 Beverly Street.— The firm 
of Thomas Singleton & Son manufacturers of rich cut and 
plain glassware, enjoy an excellent reputation for fine 
work; the articles produced being maintained at a very high 
standard of excellence. This enterprising and prosperous firm 
(which enjoys the additional distinction of being the only one in 
its line in Boston) was established a few months since, but from its 
inception the venture has proved a positive success. They occupy 
ample and well-equipped quarters with full steam power and all 
necessary facilities being in service, while some half a dozen 
skilled workmen are employed. The productions include every- 
thing in the line of fine cut and plain glassware, in exquisite de- 
signs and artistic workmanship; a superb assortment being con- 
stantly carried on hand, and all orders are promptly and reliably 
filled, while estimates are cheerfully furnished upon application. 
Messrs. Thomas Singleton, senior and junior, are both practical 
and expert workmen themselves, of many years' experience, and 
are complete masters of their art. 



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WA. SYLVESTER, Mechanical Draughtsman, Pattern and 
Model Maker, No. 35 Haverhill Street.— In tlie con- 
struction ol macliinery and mechanical apparatus, 
castings of brass, composition, iron and steel are 
necessary. In order to produce these, patterns— usually of nice 
seasoned pine, cherry or mahogany— are required. Tliese patterns 
are moulded in damp loamy sand, then withdrawn, the cores- 
necessary to cast holes that cannot be drawn from the patterns- 
are set, tbe moulds firmly clamped together and are then tilled with 
the molton metal. After the castings liave got cooled off, the 
moulds are broken up, the castings taken out, cleaned and snag- 
ged, and sometimes pickled— and then ready to use. The patterns 
are very nearly duplicates of the castings, but have to be made 
larger to allow for the contraction of the metal in cooling, brass 
and composition shrinking about 3-16 inch per foot, iron from 1-16 
to 1-8 inch per foot, varying with the kinds of iron used, the size 
and form of the casting, and also whether the mould is of green 
sand, dry sand or loam, and steel varying from 1-16 to 3-S Inch per 
foot according to the mixture used by the various foundries While 
very much depends on the foundrymen, it is of the greatest import 
ance that the patterns shall be thorouglily constructed so as to be 
able to withstand the severe usage they receive, also that the di- 
mensions be correct and the necessary draft allowed so that they 
can be easily withdrawn from the moulds. Then it Is often neces- 
sary to provide lugs and bars in the castings in order to faciliate 
matters for the machinist who has to bore and pl.ine up these cast- 
ings. There is probably in no branch of the mechanic arts that in- 
telligent judgment and skill are required more than m pattern 
making, for the workmen must lie able to make drawings, to read 
very complicated drawings, and must be familiar with foundry prac 
tice and machine shop practice, and take into consideration the 
shrinkage to allow, must decide which of several methods is the 
best method to mould the p.attern, and dually inii.st be a good joiner 
and wood turner in order to build a good durable pattern. Then 
again when many castings of small or fragile patterns are wanted, 
metal patterns have to be ina<le and gated. The pattern maker is 
usually a good model maker also. In all that is requisite to make 
first-cl.ass patterns we know of no one who is better able to till 
the bill than W. A. Sylvester of No. 35 Haverhill Street, who 
started in business in 188.1. His workshops are lightand roomyand 
are fitted up with the best of modern macbiuery. From five to 
twelve men are employed. Being a practical drauglitsman also, he 
is frequently able to assist customers in developing their ideas and 
in layingout the work for the pattern maker. 

BARNARD'S BAKERY, No. 132 Cambridge Street.— This popu- 
lar and prosperous house was originally founded in 1865, 
and about eight years ago it passed into the possession of 
the present proprietor. The premises occupied consist of a 
store with a capacity of 18.v40 feet, and this is very tastefully fitted 
up. and presents ,at all times a neat, clean, orderly and an Invit- 
ing appearance. In the rear of the store is the bakery, and this is 
equipped with all the latest improved appli,ances known to .the 
bakery trade. Three hands are employed, and here are manufac- 
tured all kinds of bread, rolls, tea biscuits, cakes, etc. These 
goods are fresh, light and nutritious, and there is an active de- 
mand for them throughout the city and vicinity. A heavy stock 
is constantly carried, and Mr. Barnard is always In a position to 
fill all orders promptly and satisfactorily. He is a native of Eng- 
land, and has been a resident of America for the past seventeen 
years. 

EW. FAVOR, Flour and Fine Groceries, Butter. Chee.se, 
Etc., No. 150 Cambridge Street.— This is one of ttie oldest 
J grocery houses in this locality, having been established 
in 1830, and in 1860, when the proprietors were Messrs. 
Flagg & Forbes, Mr. E. W. Favor became an employe of the firm. 
In 1875 he succeeded to the business, and he has from that date 
enjoyed a permanent trade of influential proportions, owing to the 
very superior quality of the merchandise sold by him, and the 
popular prices at which the same have been dispensed. The com- 
modious premises occupied for the purposes of the enterprise con- 
sist of a store and basement, e.ach 25x60 feet in dimensions. The 
s.alesroom is neatly arranged and fitted up, and is equipped 
throughout with every convenience and facility for the storage 



and handling ol stock and the accommodation ol customers. A 
large and very carefully selected stock is at all times carried, the 
assortment embracing a splendid variety of staple and fancy 
groceries, fruits and vegetables, flour, butter, cheese, eggs, canned 
goods, etc., including tlie tinest grades of teas, and fresh roasted 
coffees and spices, which form a specialty with the house. The 
tr.ade supplied is principally retail, and extends throughout the 
city and its vicinity. A stall of competent clerks and a delivery 
team form the working force, and all orders ate filled and sent to 
their destination without delay Mr. Favor is a native of Maine. 

DANIEL W FOSTER, Manufacturer aixl \»'holesale Dealer id 
Horse Blankets, Carriage Robes, Etc., No. 59 Sudbury Street. 
—We desire to call the attention of our readers to the ad- 
v.antages offered in the well orderea and conducted horse 
furnishing goods establishment of Mr. Daniel W. Foster, where he 
jointly occupies a spacious and handsomely appointed store with 
Mr. H. B. Snodgiass, manufacturer and dealer In fine harness, etc. 
The business had its origin in 1855, when it was founded by Mr. 
Nye Foster. In 1860 he was succeeded by Foster & Colburn, and in 
1867 the firm became Foster, Colburn & Co., which partnership was 
dissolved in 1881, at which time it was at the head of its line ot 
trade. In 1884 Mr. Foster opened his present place of business at 
the address .already Indicated, and here he carries on a wholesale 
trade in horse blankets, carnage robes, saddlery, hardware, green 
woolen dusters, linen horse sheets, etc. ; and Is agent for extra 
quality Swede's Iron Jacks and Amos HoUlnger's superior oak har- 
ness leather. Special goods in these lines are made to order 
promptly and at the lowest possible rates. Mr. Foster is a very 
prominent dealer in his line and controls an active and large trade 
in the city and vicinity. In his line he is enabled to offer special 
inducements to the trade. He is also the agent for several life 
Insurance companies of substantial growth and high standing. 
He is a native of Maine, and for the past thirty years has resided 
in Melrose, Mass. 

CA. TWITCHELL & CO., Engravers, No. 183 Washington 
Street.— This popular .and well known firm was established 
in 1868, and during the twenty years of its existence has 
m.aintalned a position in the front rank in its line; no con- 
cern of the kind In this city bearing a higher reputation for skill 
or reliability. The shop is ample and well equipped, all neces- 
sary facilities being at hand, while a competent assistant or two is 
regularly employed likewise. Metal engraving in all its branches 
is executed in the very best style of the art, at sliort notice, while 
badges, stencils, presses, stamps, seals, etc., are made to order in 
the most superior and prompt manner, and a complete and fine as- 
sortment is constantly carried in stock, including door plates, 
badges of every design, stencils, seals, and seal presses, steel and 
rubber stamps; all orders for the trade receiving immediate atten- 
tion. Mr. Twltchell, who is the sole member, is a native of this 
city, and a man of long and varied practical experience in the ex- 
ercise of his art of which he is a thorough master in all its 
branches. 

JH. WILLARD, Pictures Framed to Order, No. 50 Green 
Street.— One of the most reliable and best known houses iu 
J the picture trade is that of J H. Willard, which h.as been 
cimducted in a successful manner for many years. Mr. 
Willard has been in Boston for the long period of forty-five years, 
having come here from Vermont, his native place, when a young 
man. Shortly after his arrival he started in business as a baker 
and was engaged in that line up to 1874 when h" gave It up for the 
picture frame trade. He occupies a neat store. 15x40 feet in dimen- 
sions and carries a splendid assortment of the most attractive pic- 
tures for a family trade, which together with frames In ebony, 
bronze, w.alnut and other m;iterials, he sells at the most reasonable 
prices, doing an extensive business on the instalment plan. His 
principal line, however, is In framing pictures for customers who 
find in his establishment, the largest variety ot patterns to choose 
from, and can always place the greatest reliance in tlie character 
of the work performed. Mr. Willard has been ten years at his 
present location. Conscientious to a degree, he strives to render 
his work equal to any test, and judging ti'om his first-class reputa- 
tion has succeeded in a remarkable degree. 



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T KELLY & CO., Importers and Dealers in all kinds of For- 
eign and Poniestic Birds and Animals; Wlioles;Ue and 
^ Retail, No. 92 New Staniford Sti-eet.— Though founded so 
recently as August, 18S8, this house has rapidly gained a 
prominence to which older establishinents in the same line of 
trade would be glad to lay claim to. The store devoted to the 
business has an area of 25.140 feet, is we".' Uglited by two fine show 
windows, and is admirably fitted up *or the accommodation and 
display of the large and varied stock carried. Here are shown 
fancy birds of every plumage and from every clime; pigeons, 
canaries, parrots, cockatoos, prize poultry, etc., also dogs, rabbits, 
rats, squirrels, and curiosities of all kinds in the aniraal kingdom. 
The firm manufactures a bird sana that is highly commended, and 
keep in stock all kinds of fresh seeds and special foods for birds 
and animals. They are the agents for Naldire's Tablet Soap for 
dogs (imported); Clarke's Butfalo Meat Biscuits; Barbone's cele- 
brated Mocking Bird Food, suitable tor all soft-billed birds, and 
warranted to keep any length of time in any climate; Barbone's 
Improved Sands, acknowledged to be the best in the market ; and 
Barbone's Mange Cure and medicines of all kinds for dogs. The 
transactions of the house are of both a wholesale and retail char- 
acter, and all orders are promptly and satisf.actorily attended to. 
Mr. T. Kelly, who is the sole proprietor, is a native of England. 

CJ. F. SHERMAN & SON, W.atches. Clocks, and Fine Jewelry, 
No. 220 Hanover Street.— The watch and jewelry establish- 
, nient of Messrs. C. J. F. Sherman & Son, has had an honoi'- 
able career covering a oeriud of over half a century. The 
business was founded in 1839 by Mr. C. J. F. Sheiinan. who many 
years ago took into partnership his son, Mr. H. H. Sherman, who 
was born and reared in the business and has a life s acquaintance 
with its every detail. The founder died eight years ago, and his 
son, who then succeeded to the entire control of the business, has 
since conducted it under the old style of C- J. F- Sherm.an & Son. 
The store has an area of 20x30 feet, and Is finely furnished and 
fitted up with plate gl.ass show cases, etc. The stock displayed is 
a lai'ge and caiefully selected one embr.aces an excellent assort- 
ment of gold and silver watches of domestic and foreign manufac- 
ture, clocks in great variety, watch cb;iuis, rings, diamonds and 
other precious stones, bracelets, ear-rings, shawl and scarf pins, 
brooches, studs, .sleeve and colliir buttons, and jeweli'y of every 
description of the finest and most reliable quality. Every article 
sold and every representation made is guaranteed in every par- 
ticular. A special fe,ature of the business is the repairing of all 
kinds of jewelry, and the cleaning, repairing and regulating of 
fine watches, and al, work is guaranteed to afford the fullest sat- 
Isfiiction. Five assistants, practical and experienced in the busi- 
ness, are employed. 

JAMES TREGURTHA, Machinist, No. 69 Haverhill Street.— The 
expert machinist is now a most valued artisan in eveiy com- 
munity, and prominent among those of this class in Boston is 
Mr. James Tregurtha. This gentleman was born in England 
wliei'e he learned his trade, and twenty four years ago came to 
America. Eighteen yeais since he began business on his own 
account .at his present location, where his workshop hasanaiea 
of 25x70 feet, and is equipped with steam power, lathes, drilling 
and other mechanical contrivances essential to the successful car- 
rying on of the business, Mr Tregurtha is a general machinist of 
exceptionally fine ability, and is an adept in the designing and 
construction of special machinery, and especially of experimental 
and model work. He builds and repairs all kinds of electrical, 
i.unierical, perforating, indicating and other machinery, and 
makes a specialty of developing and elaborating the crude work 
of inventors. Employment is given to a staff of skilled artisans 
and prompt and sstisfactory service is rendered all patrons. 

J'W. MARSTON & CO., Wholesale Lobster Dealers. No. 26 
T Wharf.- This business was originally established in 1831 
J by John Marston, who conducted it till 1868 when he 
retired, and was succeeded by his son J. W. Marston. Ic 
1881 Mr. J. W. Marston died, and the present flrin assumed the 
management. The business is still conducted under the old name 
of J. W. Marston & Co. The members of the copartnership. Messrs. 
J. E. Newcomb and J. C. Smith have had great experience in the 



wholesale lobster trade, and have an interest in several vessels en- 
gaged In this industry. They make a specialty of dealing In lobsters, 
and offer advantages and inducements very difllcult to be secured 
el.sewliere. All orders are promptly filled at the lowest ruling 
market prices, and the trade of the house now extends throughout 
all sections of the United States. Mr. Newcomb is a native of 
Boston, while his piirtner Mr. J. C. Smith was boiii in Sandusky, 
Ohio. Mr. Smith is a member of the Massachusetts Fish Ex- 
change. Both partners are highly esteemed in trade circles for 
their enterprise and just methods, and are well worthy of the large 
measiu'e of success, which has rewarded their persevering efforts 

PARKE SNOW, Ladles' and Gents' Furnishings ; Agent for 
Laundry Work, No. 209 Shawmut Avenue.— This business 
was started under the firm name of Eldredge & Snow in 
1883, and this continued until 1888. when Mr. Snow suc- 
ceeded to the sole proprietorship. The store is a fine corner apart- 
ment with large plate glass show windows on two sides and the 
interior apartment embodies all the modern ideas of combined 
elegance and convenience. The stock shown comprises every- 
thing in the line of fancy goods, notions and ladies' .and gentle- 
men's furnishing goods, the best grades, newest novelties and 
latest popular styles being represented in each department. Mr. 
Snow has also the agency for the National Steam Laundry of Mai- 
den, and orders for all laundry work receive prompt attention, 
while the work executed is unexcelled in point of general excel- 
lence. Three assistants are employed, and the numerous patron- 
age received is drawn from the best custom of the vicinity. Mr. 
Snow is a vigorous and active young business man, and is one of 
the deservedly successful young merchants of this, his native city. 

MJ. MURPHY, Undertaker and Embalmer, No. 428 Hanover 
Street.— This enterprise was started by Mr. Murphy in 
187S .at his present address, and has steadily won his way 
to prosperity, his patronage growing steadily from the 
first. The premises occupied comprise a store, 20x40 feet m dimen- 
sions, and this is ne.atly and appropriately fitted up. A full .and fine 
stock of funeral requisites is constantly carried, embr.acing ele- 
gant coftins and caskets of every size, style and variety, also giave 
clothes, shrouds, trimmings, embalming apparatus and everything 
comprehended in funeral requisites. Mr. Murphy, who has had 
ample experience in his line of business, .assumes the entire charge 
of funerals, provides all the necess.ary requisites, and performs all 
his duties intelligently and in the most satisf.actory manner. He 
Is aided by conijietent assistants, and gives prompt attention to 
all calls, day or night. He has a large and influential patronage, 
not only in the city, but in East Boston and Brighton. Mr. Murphy 
is a native of New Bedford, Mass., and h.as resided In Boston for 
the past eighteen years. He is a capable and efficient undertaker 
and embalmer, and is thoroughly couversiant with every feature 
and detail incident to disposition of remains, the management of 
funerals and the procuring of interments. 

GEORGE C. APPLETON. Real Estate Broker, No. 27 State 
Street. Room 17 —-V representative real estate broker of 
this city is Mr George C. Appleton. who h,as been actively 
engaged in this line of business for the past twenty-two 
years, developing a widespread connection and an extensive pa- 
tronage, and including among his customers many of our leading 
capitalists and property owners Mr. Appleton is a recognized 
authority in regard to values of residential and business proper- 
ties throughout the city audits neighboring towns, and Intending 
Investors can rely upon his sound Judgment .and judicious advice 
with perfect confidence In purchasing property. He gives his 
prompt personal attention to the purchase, sale and leasing of 
real estate, the negotiation of mortgages, and the collection of 
rents, dividends and interest. In obtaining loans on bond and 
mortgage, he is eminently popular with those property owners in 
need of financial assistance. Both in the line of city and country 
property, Mr Appleton possesses facilities for the purchase, sale 
and lease of all descriptions of houses, flats and stores, and those 
in search of something in either of these lines are sure to be suited 
.as regards both location, size and price by calling on him. Mr. 
Appleton is a native of Roxbury, and of high standing in the real 
estate business. 



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ATWOOD & CO., Wholesale Commission Meroliants in Fisli ot 
all liinds, No. 52 Long Wharf, next to T Wliait.— Among the 
leading firms engaged in this line in the city may be men- 
tioned that of Atwood & Co , wliolesale commission mer- 
chants in fish of all kinds, whose transactions annually aggregate 
very substantial proportions, handling as high as 50,000 lbs of blue 
fish and about the same amount of m.aclcerel per day during the 
season. This well and favorably known house was established In 
1873 by John Atwood, who four years subsequently admitted into 
partnership his son, W. I. Atwood, who since the retirement of the 
senior member in 1884, has conducted the business alone with un- 
interrupted success. The business premises occupy three 25x50 
foot floors and are well ordered and equipped throughout, every 
convenience and facility being at hand, while half a dozen or more 
in liel]) are employed Consignments are received daily from Cape 
Cod and Nova Scotia, including fresh fish of every description; 
mackeral and blue fish being the specialties of the house during 
the summer months, and smelts, salmon and ground fish of all 
kinds during the winter mouths Sales are made as soon as the 
marketopens thereby realizing the higliest prices for the consignor, 
Mr. W. 1 Atwood, who is the sole member, isa native of Province- 
town, Mass., and liaf: resided in tills city since 1873, and enjoys an 
Al reputation in the trade. 

JAMES H. EARLE, Publisher, Importer and Bookseller, No, 
178 Washington Street.— This house was founded in 1868. for 
the publication of books of all descriptions, both religious 
and non-sectarian, and in 1872 Mr. Earle began the publica- 
tion of The Contributor, a monthly paper, devoted to religious sub. 
Jects, with no denominational bias, but with a view of doing the 
greatest good to the greatest number. This paper has given the 
publisher a prestige throughout the Union whicli could not be ac- 
quired in any other way He also does an extensive trade in 
books chiefly at wholesale, with booksellers in all parts of the 
United States, and carries at all times a very large and valuable 
collection of standard works both of his own and also ot contem- 
poraneous publication. At his office are wont to gather men con- 
spicuous in the pul[iit, in literature, and in authorship, in this city 
and from otlier portions of tlie country, for the interchange of In- 
furination upon congenial topics. The house has become to be 
recognized not only as a complete book publishing establishment, 
but, from its history and literary attractiveness, u place of special 
interest to literary men and strangers visiting the city. Some con- 
siderable retail business is transacted. Mr. Earle is a New Yorker 
by birth, but received his college education in Massachusetts, well 
equipped as an editor, expert and accomplished as a publisher, and 
reliable and responsible as a business man 

MH, KEENAN, Job and Commercial Printer, No. 15 Water 
.Street —For a period extending over thirty-flve years M 
^ H Keenan, the well-known job printer, has been suc- 
cessfully engaged In the exercise of his art. He is one 
ot the oldest established and best known exponents of the art 
preservative in this part of the city, being located at the present 
quarter since 1881. Mr. Keenan. who is a gentleman ot about 
sixty-four but active, energetic and devoted to his business, was 
born in Ireland, and has been in this country since early childhood. 
He is a practical and expert workman, with long and varied ex- 
perience at the case, and isa thorough master of his art in all its 
branches. Mr. Keenan occupies a commodious room on the third 
floor, and has In service ample, .steam power, three presses and 
complete facilities, while several first-class hands are regularly 
employed. General job printing ot every description is executed 
in the most expeditious and excellent manner, at the lowest rates; 
special attention being given to line commercial work. 

JOHN KEENAN, Wool and Wool Stock. Nos. 285 and 2S7 Com- 
mercial Street.— The large business done by Mr. John Kee- 
nan in woolen rags and wool stock during the past twenty 
years has given him a wide celebrity in commercial circles. 
He is a he,%vy buyer and dealer, and through his connections in 
the west and south conducts extensive transactions and has a 
large trade with the woolen mills throughout New England. He 
handles from twelve to fifteen tons of wool and wool stock caidi 
week and employs from twelve to fifteen hands in the business. 



Wlien Mr. Keenan began operations in 18G0 he was located on 
Ferry Street, and afterwards removed to Fulton Street. Two 
years ago he secured the premises now occupied, which consist 
ot a four-story substalit al building, having dimensions of 25x75 
feet, and well adapted In every way for storage purposes and to 
facilitate transactions. Mr. Keenan is a native of Ireland. He 
has lived in Boston a long while and is very popular, and an hon- 
orable and upright gentleman. 

SAMUEL JACOBS & BROS., Manufacturer of Fine Cigars, No. 76 
Cambridge Street —An ably conducted establishment in the 
West End engaged in the cigar manufacturing industry is 
that of the Messrs Samuel Jacobs & Bros. The business was 
inaugurated six years ago by the present firm, the individual mem- 
bers being Messrs Samuel, Abiam and Benj Jacobs. These gentle- 
men are all practical cigar makers, expert at the trade, and being 
bright, energetic young business men, they have been deservedly 
successful in buildiiigupanactive,Hourishingtrade, and their store 
is very popular witli admirers of a choice weed. The brands which 
find particular favor with buyers are the Franklin Park, a ten cent 
cigar, and tlie United Three, which sells for five cents The neat 
store occupied contains a good stock of imported and domestic 
cigars, also, cigarettes, smoking and chewing tobaccos. The 
firm also pay particular attention to the manufacture of special 
brands of cigars for the trade, and are prepared to fill all orders in 
this line on the most advantageous terms. The Messrs. Jacobs are 
natives of Philadelphia and have resided in Boston for the past 
ten years. 

JREARDON & CO , Engraved and Painted Pigns, No. 78 
Kingston Street.— Mr. Reardon lias been engaged in the 
J manufacture of engraved and painted signs in this city tor 
tlie past fourteen years— since Oct. 1888, at the present site— 
and in tlie interval has built up a reputation for superior work un- 
excelled by that of any other exponent of his trade. The shop, 
30.X40 feet in dimensions, is equipped with all requisite facilities 
for the advantageous conduct of the business, including a full stock 
of paints oils, and other materials incident to the trade. A goodly 
corps of experienced hands is employed, and the many and various 
styles and designs of signs turned out embody in every instance 
tlie highest degree of artistic and mechanical excellence. Mr. 
Reardon makes a specialty of the popular brass signs for dry 
goods commission, brokerage, banking and otlier mercantile 
houses, which are executed in many new and attractive designs. 
He enjoys a large and liberal patronage from the best city custom 

He. HILTON, Commission Merchant and Dealer in Fruits, 
No. 91 S. Market Street.— Mr. H. C.Hilton.the well-known 
^ commission merchant and wholesale dealer in foreign 
and domestic fruits, has a trade which is very large in 
Boston and extends throughout the New England States. He be- 
gan about [our years ago, and having had lengthened experience 
in the trade, fully understands how to meet the demands of the 
public In a satisfactory manner. He is constantly receivingcon- 
signments of farm produce, and as a wholesale dealer in fruits, 
both foreign and domestic, supplies a large demand, and controls 
a first-class order trade. He is one of the representative dealers 
in fruits in the city, and always has the choicest bananas, lemons, 
oranges, nuts, flgs, &c., that are brought to this market. Mr. Hil- 
ton, who was born in Maine, is a young man of energy, .and has a 
fine business connection and m.any friends. 

HALEY'S Fashionable Millinery, No. 100 Hanover Street.- 
The millinery establishment of Mrs. Catherine Haley is the 
most fashionable on that thoroughfare. Mrs. Haley is a 
lady of exquisite taste and knows wh,at;is becoming and 
suitable for her patrons, and always has something new and beau- 
tifu". in seasonable fashionable millinery, to please those who may 
favor her neat, handsome, attractive establishment with a visit. 
Trimmed hats in great profusion are displayed which are lovely to 
look upon and exceedingly rich in the blending of colors and trim- 
mings. Mourning millinery is made tc order at the shortest notice 
and every care and attention is given to customers. Mrs. Haley 
is very popular with the ladies and is highly commended by all her 
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GEO. T. HOYT &C0., Sail Makers, ami Maiiulacturers of House 
and Store Awnings, Tents, Flags, Piazza Curtains, Etc., No. 
46 South Maiket Street.— The leading lepiesentative of its 
branch of industry in this city is the house of Messrs. Geo. T. 
Hoy t & Co., the well-known sail makers, and inanufacturei s of house 
and store awnings, tents, flags, piazza curtains, etc., at No. 45 South 
Market Street. This liouse lias been in successful operation since 
1683, and controls a vast trade in the vaiious articles of its manufac- 
ture. The premises occupied for the business are sj)acious in size, 




and every facility is at hand for Insuring rapid and perfect pro- 
duction and for the prosecution of the business under the most 
favoiable auspices and upon a large scale. The specialty of the 
business is the manufacture of awnings, tents, anil flags, which 
are in active and permanent demand In this city and throughout 
the state. Tents are made for all purposes and in any shape, fitted 
up with sundry conveniences. Lawn and seaside tents are made 
picturesijue, graceful and methodical, at the same time can be 
easily and expeditiously set and removed, and aie not buiden- 
aouie iu transit. Particular attention is given to the manufacture 




of silk flags and banners, embroidered or gold letters, yacht suits 
and signals, poles, gold balls, spears, halliards etc. Tents are 
kept on hand to let, awnings aie taken down and stored; canvas 
signs, horse and wagon covers are for sale, also old canvas. The 
awnings made by this Arm are unsurpassed for beauty, elegance, 
duiability and artistic workmanship by any otlier first-class 
house in the trade, and are sold at prices which are safe from suc- 
cessful competition. 

DA. CARR, Stoves, Kanges and Furnaces, Nos. 33 and Xi 
Leverett Street.— Mr. D. A. Carr is an extensive dealer 
J in stoves, ranges, and furnaces, tin and sheet Iron 
ware and general house furnisliing goods, and gives 
special attentiou to hotel and restaurant work, plumbing, gas- 



fitting and general jobbing, and to the lining and repairing of 
stoves, ranges and furnaces. He succeeded to the control 
of the business here in 1882, and has steadily maintained a 
position in the front rank of the tr.ade in this city. His business 
premises comprise a fine double store, 40 by GO feet in dimensions, 
a spacious basement, workshop and storage room, and unsurpassed 
facilities are at hand for cundnctingall branches of the enterprise 
under the most favoiable conditions and upon the largest scale. 
In his splendid waierooms can be found everything needed in the 
lineof stoves,tinware and kitchen furnishings, including the latest 
improved cooking stoves and ranges, the praises of which are re- 
peated by cooks and housewives all over the the land ; the hand- 
somely ornamented parlor-heaters, the jiraises of which are sung 
to the music of the piano ; a great variety of portable furnaces, a 
thing of beauty and a joy forever ; and the new summer cooking 
ranges and gas stoves. In plumbing materials, tin. sheet-iron and 
copper ware and domestic utensils the stock is complete. A large 
force of skilled and expert workmen are employed in the different 
departments of plumbing, gas fitting, tinsmithing, jobbing and 
general repairs, and satisfaction is confidently assured to all who 
patronize this house in any of these branches of industry. 

CH. LALLEY, Wholesale Dealer In Bottles, No. 83 Fulton 
Street.— This gentleman started business in 1882 on Har- 
j risen Avenue, whence he removed in 1887 to his present 
location. Here he occupies a suitable, well appointed 
store and basement, each 25x60 feet in dimensions, and appropri- 
ately fitted up and arranged for the business Tlie stock carried 
is at all times a very extensive one and consists of ctempagne. 
wine, brandy, claret, hock, portei-. ale, mineral and other bottles 
and jugs of every description, secured direct from the manufac- 
turers and offered at prices which are notsurpassed in the trade. 
The business of tlie house is exclusively of a wholesale character, 
and heavy sliiimients are made to order to all parts of the New 
England and New York States. Owing to the extensive stock 
always carried and the possession of all necessary facilities for the 
successful prosecution of the business the proprietor and his as- 
sistants are always in a position to fill all orders promptly and sat- 
isfactorily. The standing of the house in mercantile circles is of 
the highest, and Mr. Lalley is a most pleasant gentleman to estab- 
lish business relations with. 

A& J. E. TUTTLE, Mechanical Draughtsmen and Pattern 
Makers, No 73 Havei hill Street.— In this department of 
J enterprise the establishment of Messrs. A. & J. E. Tut- 
tle, of No. 73 Haverhill Street, has been a noted and suc- 
cessful one for the past thirty ycais. It was founded in 18M by 
Mr. George Blake, who conducted the business until 1872, when he 
was succeeded by the present proprietors, who have developed a 
wide spread trade connection of a substantial and influential 
character. The firm are general mechanical draughtsmen and pat- 
tern makers, and make models and designs for steam engines, 
steam and gas fittings, stoves, furn.ices, ranges and all kinds of 
machinery. Their business premises comprise one floor with an 
area of 60x60 feet, and this is fully equipped with all necessary 
machinery, which is operated by steam power. From five to ten 
hands are employed, and all business commands meet with prompt 
and satisfactory attention. The co-partners, have had vast prac- 
tical experience in their business. Mr. A. Tuttle, who was born In 
Boston, resides in Lockport, and Mr. J. E. Tuttle, who is a native 
of Kockport, is a resideut of Chelsea. 

FRANCIS STANWOOD, Cotton Buyer. No. 4 Post Office Square. 
— Piomlnent among the cotton buyers of this city is Mr. 
Francis Stanwood, who does a strictly commission business, 
buying for cotton goods manuractureis all over the eastern 
.states, filling orders direct from the south and is prepared to buy 
in any quantity cargoes, car-load lots and in smaller amounts, 
while his business which is large and active gives evidence of 
steady improvement. Mr. Staiiwood, who is a comjiaratively 
young man and a Bostonian by birth, is a gentleman of thorough 
reliability as well as energy, and is fully conversant with the 
wants of the trade. He succeeded his brother, L. Stanwood, who 
had been established since 1878, on the event of that gentleman's 
death, February, 1888. 



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LEWIS WHARF TOW BOATS, Natli'l P. Doane. Agent, Office 
No. 105 Coninieici.al Street, and Pier 2, I^ewis Whaif.— The 
Lewis Wharf TowBoatCoiiipnny is one of Hie leading and best 
Isnowii enterprises in tlie city of its l<ind, and is eminently 
deserving of iioiiorable mention in tliese pages. It was founded 
some twenty years ago, under its present management and title, 
with Messrs. Rodgers and Sayers as agents, and in 1884 tlie present 
agent of the company, Mr. Nath'l P. Doane, succeeded to the con- 
trol. The main oftices of the company are at No. lO.'i Commercial 
Street, and Pier 2, Lewis Wharf, each of which is furnislied with 
telephone connection. The tugs owned and operated by the com- 
pany, are the Natiri P. Doane, Leader. Nellie and Blanche, and 
with these staunch bo.ats, vessels are towed in and about this har- 
bor and to all neighboring ports. Tlie Nath'l P Doane, is a fine 
new boat recently built, and is the largest of the fleet. It h.as all 
the modern imprnvemenis, including wrecking pumps, etc., and is 
superior in every detail. Passing years liave only served to add to 
the strength, influence and popularity of tiiis company. Its eii- 
giigements are invariably met at the time agreed npon, contracts 
and commissions are fiilftlled witli scruplous care and proniptne.ss, 
and .all interests committed to its care are zealously watched and 
safely guarded. Its tarifl' of r.ates is fair and .s.atisfactory to 
patrons, and the utmost coniidence in its reliability and responsi- 
bility is always fully justified. Mr. Doane, the popular agent, is a 
native of Mass., in the active prime of lite, a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce and a part owner in the Lewis Wharf 
Tow Boat Company. 

DAVIS, STEBBINS & CO . Hardware. Mechanics' Tools, Cut- 
lery, &c , Nos. 31 and 3.3 Sudbury street —This well known 
and popular firm was established in 1872, and from the start 
has enjoyed a very liberal and growing patronage. The 
premises occupied, which are desirably located at the corner of 
Portland Street, include a neat 2.'ix35 store and basement, three ex- 
perienced clerks .attending to tlie wants ofcustomeis, while a large 
and well selected stock is constantly kept on hand, comprising 
shelf and builders' hardware of all kinds, mechanics tools in great 
variety, pocket and table cutlery, steel and iron goods, nails, screws 
and small wares, household specialties, cord.age, rope, wire. g.arden 
tools and in short, everything tliat is to be found in a leading 
hardware store, and the tr,ade wliich extends throughout the city 
Is quite substantial. The Hrni is composed of Messrs. S H. Davis 
and M B. Stebbins, botli gentlemen of middle age.activeand ener- 
getic, and natives of New Hampshire, but old and respected Bos- 
ton merchants. 

LB. ROLLINS & CO.. Commission Merchants for the .s.ale of 
Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Beans, Poultry, Etc , No 17 Black- 
, stone Street, and No. 20 John Street.— Although a com- 
paratively young firm L. B. Rollins & Co, have a standing 
In the tr.ade and established a business connection second to few en- 
gaged in ;his branch of commercial activity hereabouts Estab- 
lished about two years since, this enterprising and responsible Arm 
at its very inception may be said to have bounded into prominence 
and prosperity, building up in a short time a large, active and flour- 
ishing trade. All consignments placed with this concern are judi- 
ciously h.andled, and returns promjitly made for the same in every 
instance, this latter beinga special feaure here. Thepremi.ses oc- 
cupied are commodious, ample and well equipped, every conve- 
nience and facility being at hand, while three experienced sales- 
men are in attendance also. A heavy and first-class stock is always 
carried (consignments being received regularly from all sections of 
the country), comprising prime butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, beans, 
apples, onions, potatoes, .and everything in the line of country pro- 
duce; butter, cheese and eggs being specialties, and the tr.ade is 
wholesale exclusively. Mr. Rollins, who is tlie sole member, was 
born in New Hampshire, but has been a resident of Boston since 
18G5, and was formerly with the firm of Foster, Weeks & Co., same 
line, for fourteen years. He is a well known member of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce. 



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F. HUMPHREY, Blank Book Manufacturer, No. 114 State 
Street.— This gentleman brings to bear vast practical ex. 
experience and a thorough knowledgeofallthewantsand 
requirements of manufacturing blank books of all kinds. 



having been established in the business here since 1865. Previous 
to that time he hiid been in the employ of Messrs S. G. Simpkins 
& Co., and purch.ased their bindery and blank book manufivcturing 
department at that date, continuing in the business with 
steiidily increasing success. He is essentially a first-class blank 
book manufacturer and binder, and is in a position to guar- 
antee piompt, systemMtic and successful work in all brancliea 
of his business. His nianuf.actory is equipped with a full outfit of 
the most improved machinery and appliances for binding and 
blank book making, and eveiy facility isat liand for insuring rapid 
and perfect production and the execution of all orders at tlie time 
promised. His blank books are in steady and permanent demand 
among the leading stationers in the city, being recognized as 
standard staples in their line, and selling re.adily throughout the 
mercantile and financial community. Mr. Huniplirey is a native 
of Pelliam, Mass., a resident of Somerville, and known in this city 
.as a reliable and responsible business man and an .accomplished 
master of his trade. 

STHOS. WOODWARD, Wlioles.ale Lumber Commission 
Merchant, No. 11 Central Street (Room 15).- A wholesale 
J commission house doing an immense and thriving biisines, 
in lumber, is that of Mr. S. Tliomas Woodward, whose 
office is located in Room 15. No 11 Central Street. This gentleman 
founded his enterprise in February, 18S6, and from its inception to 
the present has been attended by the most marked success. He is 
the representative iiere of some of the most exlen.«ive manufactu- 
rers of lumber in tlie east, west, south and north, with whom be h.as 
telegraphic coinmunicalion. and his customers are supplied with 
hard and soft lumber, in such dimensions as desired, in car and 
cargo lots, direct from the forests immediately upon order. His 
facilities for prompt service and at tiie lowest rates in the trade, 
are not surp.assed by tliose of any other wholesale concern in the 
city, and the moie this f.act liiis become known the more has his 
trade increased, until now it extends all over the New England 
States Mr Woodward is a Bostonian by birth, a young and enter- 
prising business man, of much promise, and, being in the morning 
of commercial usefulness, the future prospect of his house is ex- 
ceedingly bright. 

THOMAS HENRY HEARN, Apothecary, Harrison Avenue 
Cor. Kneeland Street.— A well stocked and well-conducted 
pharmacy is an important acquisition to any community, 
and in this connection, as a representative local establish- 
ment is mentioned that of Mr. Thoni.as Henry Hearn. Tliespa- 
cious and attractive premises are fitted up in a style appropriate 
to the business and a full and complete stockof puredrugs, chemi- 
cals, proprietary medicines, toilet and fancy articles, etc., is car- 
ried. Piescriptioiis of all kinds are compounded with the utmost 
skill and care, .and the large and liberal patronage received is 
di'awn from the best medical and family custom of the vicinity. 
Mr. Hearn is a native of Boston, and a practical and skillful phar- 
m.acist of twenty-two years experience in the business. He em- 
barked for himself in the present enterprise in 13S0, and has built 
up what may be termed a representative local business iu his 
line. 

GEORGE H.WARE, Steam Printer, No. 43 Lincoln Street.— 
Among the best known and most popular city establish- 
ments in its line, should be mentioned the book and job 
printing enterprise of Mr. George H. Ware. Mr. Ware suc- 
ceeded to an old established business at the present site in the 
early part of the present year, and by his well directed and able 
management h.as materially augmented the old time popularity 
and prosperity of the enterprise. The premises are spacious, well- 
arranged and convenient, and the plant embraces the newest and 
best improved printing methods .and appliances, the motive force 
being supplied by steam. A competent corps of experienced as- 
sistants are employed, and anytlilng in the line of commercial 
printing is executed in the highest degree of artistic and mechani- 
cal excellence. The business received is both large and lucrative, 
and the patronage is derived from the best commercial custom. 
Mr. Ware is a practical and skillful exponent of his trade, and fully 
merits a classiflcation among the ablest young business men of his 
day. 



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CHANDLER & FARQUFIAR, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Hardwaie Tools, JIaehinists' and Manufacturers' Supplies, 
Nos. 177 and 179 Washington Street.— The leading and best 
patronized headquarters for hardware, iron and kindred 
supplies, in this city, is the establishment of Messrs. Chandler & 
Farquhar. This firm are extensive dealers in this class of goods, at 
both wholesale and retail, and have been established in the busi- 
ness since 1882. The premises occupied for trade purposes com- 
prise a fine store and basement, 26x80 feet each, and part of second 
floor, while a branch store is also operated at Nos. 23 and 25 
Purchase Street, devoted principally to the .sale of m.ichinery. The 
several departments are filled with an elabor.ite and diversified 
stock, embracing builders' and general hardware, shelf goods and 
cabinet hardware, carpenters', machinists' and mechanics' tools, 
locksmiths', butchers' and manufacturers' supplies; Stubbs' Swiss 
and American files, bolts, set, cap and machine screws, wires and 
sheet metals, drills, taps and dies, cliucks and reamers, foot and 
hand lathes, bar iron and steel, table and pocket cutlery, and im- 
plements and tools for all trades. This house is also prominent as 
New England Agent for the W. F. and John Barnes Foot-Power 
Machinery. All the above supplies are purchased in vast quanti- 
ties direct from the manufacturers. Significant advantages are 
e.xtended to the trade and consumers in the matter of terms and 
prices. Both a wholesale and retail business is transacted, and in 
addition to a large local trade, a heavy demand is ministered to 
coming from all parts of the New England and western states, and 
all orders are guaranteed prompt and perfect fulfillment. The in- 
dividual members of the firm are Messrs. F. Chandler .and C. S. 
F.arquhar, the former being a native of Augusta, Me., and the latter 
of this state ; and llie reliable, liberal and trustworthy policy they 
have ever pursued in their dealings, have made these gentlemen 
exceedingly and deservingly popular with the public and the 
trade. 

JOSEPH D. ELLIS Wholes.ale' Dealers in Paper .and Linen 
Collars, No. 78 Bedford Street.— The wholesale handling 
of men's turnisliing goods in Boston, is represented in the 
trade by some .solid and noteworthy houses, and among these 
m.aybe mentioned that of Joseph D.Ellis, wholesale deafer in paper 
and linen collars, cuffs, neckwear, etc. Mr. Ellis is a native of 
F.iir Haven, Mass., and a ni,an of enterprise .and energy, and Is 
thoroughly conversant with the trade. He bears a very creditable 
war record also, serving throughout the l.ate rebellion in the navy 
under Admiral Farr.agut, and was appointed Ensign on the Flag 
Ship in 1861 when but a very young man. Returning to Fair Haven 
at the close ottlie w,ar, Mr. Ellis embarked in the business of manu- 
facturing collars at his native place, and in 1868 moved to Boston, 
establishing himself in the present line in which he h.asbeen uni- 
formly successful from the start. The salesrooms, which are spa- 
cious and atlractive. occupy a 25x72 foot floor and b.asement, and 
several efficient salesmen are in attendance, while a large and fine 
stock is constantly carried embracing everything in the Ime of 
paper and linen collars and cuffs„neckwear in great variety, white 
and fancy colored shirts, underclothing, hosiery and gents' furnish- 
ings gener.ally, and the tr.ade which is principally of a jobbing 
nature, is quite substantial, extending .all over the New England 
States. 

CHAS. E. ELLIOT & CO., Tailors, No. 419 Wiishington Street 
—Among the oldest and best known merchant tailors of tiiis 
city is Mr. Ch.as. E. Elliot. Mr. Elliot was born in Maine, 
but came to this city forty-five years ago, and here served 
his apprenticeship and .acquired an expert knowledge of the tailors' 
tr.ade. As far back as 1848 he began business with a copartner 
under the firm name as above, and although alone since 1885, he 
still maintains the old time-honored title. The present premises 
which have been occupied since 1879, consist of a spacious and ele- 
gantly fitted up salesroom containing a full and complete stock of 
imported and domestic suitings, trouserings, overcoatings, etc., 
carefully selected from the best grades and most popular patterns 
and styles. Mr. Elliot has an old established and highly desirable 
city trade, made up of the best society and business custom. His 
work has a standard reputation for the highest degree of artistic 
and mechanical excellence, and he has long been respected and 
esteemed as one of the leading and representative Boston tailors. 



HP. HALMA, Sailmaker .and Manufacturer of Italian Awn- 
ings, Tents, Flags, Etc., No. 26 North Market Street.— 
I The occupation of Mr. H. P. Halma as sail maker and es- 
pecially manufacturing awnings, tents, flags, water proof 
covers, etc., is .an important one and is carried on by him quite ex- 
tensively. His experience in th"^ business extends over thirty-two 
years, and he has been established in it since 1876 on his own ac- 
count. For six years he occupied the premises at No. 29 NortU 
Market Street, and afterwards in order to meet the demands ofliis 
growing business he moved to the commodious premises at No. 26* 
on the same street. A number of workmen are employed during 
the season and a large business transacted in the manufacture of 
Italian and other kinds of awnings, lawn .and field tents of all sizes 
and ship and yacht .sails and fl.igs, also water proof covers, cano- 
pies, etc. Repairing receives attention and large or small tents 
are kept on hand for sale or to let, on reasonable terms and new 
and second hand sail cloth for covers. Wheel ropes are spliced 
and put up, and canopy awnings are rented for special occasions, 
y.acht .sails and flags are made to order and in this branch of the 
business Mr. Ilalma is pronounced one of the best in the city, 
and can always guarantee perfect work and full satisfaction. 
He is originiilly from Denmark, has been in the United States 
twenty years, building up a business which extends to various 
sections of the state of Mass.achusetts. He is a, prominent member 
of the Masonic Order and also of the Dorchester and South Boston 
Yacht Clubs. 

LAROY E. NICHOLS, American Watches and Clocks, Jewelry 
and Optical Goods, No. 245 Hanover Street.— There is prob- 
ably not one among the many well kept Jewelry stores th.at 
have sprung up in this vicinity of late years, that h.as been 
attended with more gratifying prosperity than that of Laroy E. 
Nichols. It is a neat, compact .and well-ordered establishment, 
where is always displayed a complete and first-class assortment of 
American watches and clocks of every description; also a full 
and fine line of jewelry, including novelties in rings, pins, chains, 
charms, lockets and emblematic designs ; wliile purchasers can 
rely upon receiving an excellent .article, courteous attention .and 
satisfactory de.aling in every instance in this reliable establish- 
ment. Here can also be found everything in the line of optical 
goods, opera glasses, spectacles, eye-glasses, etc., also society 
emblems in quite a variety, in unique designs and artistic work- 
manship; bottom prices likewise prev.ailing. Watches, clocks, 
jewelry, etc., are neatly and promptly repaired at reasonable rates ; 
fine watch repairing being a specialty, while a competent assist- 
ant is regularly employed, and all work executed in this establish- 
ment is fully warranted to render satisfaction. Mr. Nichols, is a 
native of New Hampshire, and a pr.actical and expert Jeweler, of 
many years' experience. He established himself in business in 
Boston, in 1884, moving to the present location, .\l.ay 9th, 1888, and 
from the start he has enjoyed a very nice patronage. Mr. Nichols 
is a popular member of the order of Red Men and also of the Good 
Fellows. 

HE WES & MAYO, Successors to A.P.Boyce.Sign and Office Paint 
ers.No. 31 Cornhlll Street.— Boston has many experts in the 
painting and decorative line, and among tliese are numb- 
ered Messrs. Hewes & Mayo. The business of this concern 
had its origin in 1867, when it w.as founded by Mr. A. P. Boyce, 
who, in 1885, was succeeded by Messrs. Hunting & Hewes. In the 
early part of 1888 this firm was reorganized, and became, as now, 
Hewes & Mayo, the copartners being Mr. James B. Hewes and Mr. 
William B. Mayo. The former is a native of England and resides 
at Arlington, and the latter w.as born on Cape Cod and lives at 
Everett. Both these gentlemen are priictical sign and general 
painters of long experience, and In their line have produced the 
most artistic work. They give specLal attention to glass lettering, 
cloth signs, marble lettering, metal signs, wire screen lettering, 
carved signs, show cards, etc., .and permanent employment is af- 
forded to a force of skilled workmen. The firm occupy roomy 
premises, and their appliances and I.acilities are such as to admit 
of the speedy and effective execution of orders. Il.aving seen 
some specimens of the work of this house we can in full confidence 
commend the firm to the patronage of our readers as one com- 
petent to do flrstclass work in every respect. 



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L DICKEY, Manufacturer of Fancy Whips, Thongs, Laslies, 
Knotted Bone, and Named Whips, Old Wliips repaired, 
g No. 40 Sudbury Street.— In 1862 tlie well-lcnown gentle- 
man whose n.ame heads this sicetch, and wlio is now 
a man in the prime of life, came to this city 
from the Empire State, and began business 
in a modest way on Sudbury Street. From 
the inception of the venture he lias steadily 
pushed his way to a forefront rank in 
his branch of trade, in which he has had a 
practical experience extending over a period 
of forty-six years. Mr. L. Dickey is a man- 
ufacturer of fancy whips.'thongs, lashes, knotted 
bone and named whips. His premises are ade- 
quately equipped with all necessary mechanical 
appliances, and here a staff of competent and 
skilled artisans are permanently employed in 
making whips toorder and for the trade. A large 
and varied assortment of whips is constantly car- 
ried in stock, and all orders are promptly and 
s;itisfactorily filled. The business is of both a 
wholesale and retail character, and it extends 
throughout the New England States Mr. Dickey 
is a native of Kochester, N. Y., and is one of the 

best known and most popular whip makers in his section of the 

country. 

NC. WHITAKER & CO., Manufacturers of Fine Tortoise 
Shell and Horn Goods, Combs, Pins, Bracelets, Jewelry 
I and Novelties of Every Description in Shell and;Horn,and 
Manufacturers' Agents for Ivory and Cloth Buttons, 
No. 3C3 Washington Street.— As manufacturers of fine tortoise 
shell and horn goods, combs, pins, bracelets, jewelry and novel- 
ties of every description in shell, horn etc.. this firm have ob- 
tained deserved .success and have won a large and influential 
patronage both at home and abroad. The enterprise was originally 
founded in 1S74 by Messrs. Zates, Whitaker & Kane, and two years 
later the firm was changed to Zates & Co., who, in 1878, were suc- 
ceeded by Whitaker <i Proctor. This firm was dissolved in August, 
1888, and Mr. N. C. Whitaker, on becoming the sole proprietor re- 
moved tlie business to its present location, where he occupies 
finely appointed offices and sample room and a spacious factory in 
the rear. The latter is equipped in the most thorough manner 
with the latest improved machinery appertaining to the trade, 
and tlie machinery is operated by steam power. The tortoise shell 
and horn goods made here are of the finest quality and are noted 
for their beauty of design and elegance of finish. A prominent 
feature is made of the rep.airing of combs, jewelry and fans, and the 
firm are manufacturers' agents for ivory and cloth buttons, 
and the facilities of the house are such as ensure the prompt 
and statistaetory fulfillment of all orders. The trade of the house 
is very extensive and influential, its products being shipped not 
only to all parts of the Union, but to South America, and the 
transactions of the house, which are exclusively of a wholesale 
character, are yearly increiising in volume. 

ELMER E.GRAY, Commission Merchant, Butter, Cheese, Eggs 
and Poultry, No. 134 Blackstone Street.— This representa- 
tive and progressive hon.se was established in 1885 by Mr. 
Gray, who has built up a large trade and through his exten- 
sive connections controls a large business. Consignments of 
choice creamery and dairy butter, cheese and fresh eggs are 
received daily, and also live and dressed poultry. Promptitude 
and quick sales form the policy upon which the business is con- 
ducted and ihe stock is always choice and fresh. Mr. Gray Is in 
the possession of the best f.acilities for procuring supplies direct 
from the producers and can supply the trade at the lowest market 
prices. The premises are of ample dimensions for tlie requirements 
of the business and a force of clerks are kept constantly employed. 
Liberal advances are made on consignments and in all matters 
pertaining to this special line of trade Mr. Gray is prepared to 
tr.insact business in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. He 
supplies dealers, hotels, restaurants and families, and Is enjoying 
a well merited success. He was born in East Boston twenty-seven 
years ago and is well known in Boston business circles. 



FOSS & GAULT, Importers and Dealers in Ladies', Gentlemen's 
and Children's Fine Hosiery and Underwear, No. 22 Temple 
Place. A newly established mercantile enterprise, but one 
which is fast assuming a position in the front rank of the 
greafhouses which form the basis of the trade, wealth and impor- 
tance of tills great shopping district is that of Messrs. Foss & 
Gault, importers and dealers in ladies', gentlemen's and child- 
ren's fine hosiery and general furnishing goods, also umbrellas and 
parasols, recovered and repaired. Messrs. riias. E. Foss and J. E. 
Gault, composing the firm, are young men thoroughly conver- 
sant with the business OH hand, having served a long clerkship in 
the well known house of C. F. Hovey <Si Co, In September, 1888, 
they embarked for themselves at the present site, and their busi- 
ness from its inception has had a substantial and rapid growth. 
The salesroom, 2.5x6U feet in dimensions, is a model of systematic 
and convenient arrangement and its appointment is in accord with 
the best modern ideiis of artistic elegance. The large, comprehen- 
sive <and complete stock represents the newest novelties, latest 
fashionable styles and finest fabilcs in the goods above enumer- 
ated, a large force of experienced clerks is employed and the lib- 
eral patronage received is drawn fi>ein tlie best town and subur- 
ban custom. Messrs. Foss & Gault are thoroughly active, go-a- 
head business men, generally respected as among the representa- 
tive andrapidlyrising young merchants in their Hue, of this, their 
native city. 

JESSE SCOTT, Fine French and American Confectionery, Ice 
Cream, Soda and Mineral Waters, No. 122 Court Street.— One 
of the best known among the many attractive establishments 
on Court Street is that of Mr. Jesse Scott, successor to Jos- 
eph Fowler, located at No. 122 of that thoroughfare. Mr. Scott, 
who is a practical business man, assumed control and became sole 
proprietor of this popular and reliable liouse in October, 1888, and 
by courtesy and liberal dealing has made many friends whose con- 
fidence and esteem he enjoys in the highest degree. The handsome 
store is neatly and tastefully fitted up with plate glass show c;ises 
and ornamental fixtures and a fountain of new novel design In 
the rear of the store Is a finely furnislied saloon parlor, which is 
provided with every convenience for the accommodation of the 
public. Mr. Scott manufactures all kinds of fine French and 
Amei'ican confectionery and candies from pure cane sugar and 
other materials, and icecream and ices, and supplies a large de- 
mand. The store and saloon is liberally patronized by an appre- 
chative public, and Mr. Scott, who is a ready, courteous, polite, at- 
tentive gentleman, has just cause to be proud of the success which 
has attended his well directed efforts. He fills all orders promptly 
and guarantees the best service in the line of his business of any 
merchant in the city. A Bostonian by birth, he is very popular as 
a.business man and citizen. 

CR. MUNCH, Jr., Hat Tip Printer, No. 339 Washington 
Street.— A deservedly successful house engaged in hat tip 
printing is that which is conducted byMr. C.R.Miinch, Jr. 
Mr. Miinch isa Swede by birtli and learned his trade in 
this city, after which he was employed in some of the best liouses 
engaged in his special line, and after acquiring a thorough exper- 
ience in all its details, he founded this establishment originally in 
1877, on Bedford Street. The large and influential trade he received 
by his clo.se attention to business executing first-class work and 
honorable dealings, compelled him to seek more comfortable and 
sp,acious quarters ; and in 1884 he removed to his present address. 
Here he utilizes a finely fitted up establishment of spacious dimen- 
sions, which contains all the conveniences and latest improved 
machinery and appliances required in the trade. He employs a 
sufllcient force of skilled and experienced workiuen in order to 
meet all the demands of his large and constantly increasing busi- 
ness, and is prepared to execute all orders of any magnitude at the 
shortest notice. A specialty is ma.de of fine printing in gold or 
silver leaf, on silk, satin or leather, in which all the latest and 
newest designs are produced, while he is in constant receipt of new 
patterns, suitable for trade marks and other branches of the busi- 
ness. His tr,ide is very large and includes a large portion of the 
most prominent and leading hat manufacturers In this city and 
throughout New England. Mr. Miinch has had many years experi- 
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SW. CHAMBERLIN, Steam Cookers, No. 25 Union Street — 
The improvements made in the art of coolcing liave occu- 
pied the attention of inventors and scientitic men for an 
indefinite period, and tlie most important result of their 
labors is siiown in the Cliamberlin Steam Cool<er, manufactured 
by Mr. S. W. Chamberlin. tlie patentee, at No. 25 Union Street, in 
this city. This cooljer is an article constructed on scientific prin- 
ciples, giving concentrated heat, together with steam pressure, 
which makes it an important factor in household economy. The 
invention was originally pat- 
ented February 29, 1876, and 
the business of their manufac- 
ture was established by Mr. 
Chamberlin, at Montgaue, 
Mass., removing to Boston in 
1877. The business premises 
comprise three floors, 25.V100 
feet each, thoroughly equipped 
with new and improved m.v 
chinery, operated by steam 
power, and every modern 
facility is afforded (or insuring 
rapid and perfect production. 
The Chamberlin is recognized 
wherever introduced as the 
only perfect self-regulating 
steam cooker In the market. 
It has always been upheld by 
1^' learned scientists that the 
cooking of food by steam is tlie 
most desirable, and now that 
a perfect cooker lias been in- 
vented there will be less dys- 
pepsia and indigestion among 
our epicures. This invention 
is not only a health-saving 
affair, but gives great relief to 
the over-burderifcl housewife or cook at all seasons of the year. 
Its construction is simple, requiring no attention except to keep 
the water supplied, wliich may be replenished without removing 
tlie cover or disturbing the food It is the only steamer that con- 
trols the steam : there are no odors or steam arising from the cook- 
ing of food; no intermixture of Havois, no loss from forgetfulnessas 
nothing burns.no heavy pots of water to lift; is easier to cle.aii 
than the pots, gives economy of stove room, and ean be used on 
gas, kerosene or common stoves ; makes the food more nourishing, 
Pialatable and digestible; sweet vegetables become sweeter, and 
twenty per cent is saved In shrinkage. The seamless rim w.as 
never used before, .and the whistle which gives the alarm when 
the water Is low is an improvement peculiar to this cooker alone. 
Over eighty thousand of these cookers have already been sold, 
and diplomas and medals have been awarded it at the fair of the 
Massachusetis Charitable Mechanic Association, at Boston: the 
New England Fair, .at Worcester, Mass.; the State Fair, at Lewis, 
to.T. Me., and many others. They are in heavy and increasing de- 
mand throughout all the United States, and shipments are also 
freely made to Australia and many other foreign ports. Mr. 
Chamberlin, the enterprising proprietor, was born in New Salem 
Franklin County, M,ass., and is lecogDized in this city .as an accom- 
plished inventor and manufacturer, and a reliable and progressive 
business man. 

R& J. BESSES, Caterers, No. 167 Tremont Street.— These 
gentlemen are natives of Swltzerhand, and came to New 
J York where they first established themselves in 1872. In 1878 
tliey removed to Hartford, Conn., where they still operate 
the leading house in their line.and In April,18SS, opened their elegant 
establishment in this city at the address above Indicated. Although 
a recent candidate for popular favor, tills firm have already won a 
leading position and .an extensive, influential and steadily increas- 
ing patronage. They are prepared to execute all orders that are 
entrusted to their care with the utmost promptness, and to 
guar.antee perfect satisfaction. Their salesrooms are spacious 
and elegantly appointed, and a large and varied stock Is displayed 
•r fancy cakes, Ice creams, pastry, imported fruits, salted almonds, 



and other specialties. The assortment of fancy cakes here sup- 
plied comprise pastille, chocolate bisque, iced cakes, hazel nut 
cakes, meringues, kisses, chocolate ecKaires, cream cakes, pound 
cake, angel cake, lady cake, sponge cake, baba, savaren, 
briose, macha, pistach cakes, genuase cakes, santanore, 
come al crem, macaroons, almond pralinee, pignoli, wafers, 
■almond wafers, etc., etc. The line of fancy ice creams includes 
neapolitan, harlequin, bisque glace, parfalt aux cafe, mousse aux 
cafe, bisque tortoni, creme pralinee, nongatten, ristori and tutli 
frutti; while puddings, pudding glace, punch glace and pastry of 
every description are but features of an array of good things 
which is rarely duplicated elsewhere. Then there are varieties of 
oysters, salads, pates, sandwiches, croquettes, etc., which are here 
served in the very flnest style, as well as every other article which 
could by any reasonable stretch of the Imagination be Included in 
a caterer's bill of fare. Special attention is given to serving wed- 
ding and reception parties ; .also balls and picnics, for which a 
complete supply of silver, ghass and china w.are is kept on hand, 
while waiters and cooks in any number desired are furnished on 
short notice. 

FISK'S Lunch and Dining Rooms, No. 132 Essex Street.— That 
Mr. Fisk knows how to minister to the wants of the inner 
man, is fully attested by the large and successful patronage 
he has built up within the past few years. He was born in 
this city some fifty-five years ago. and for about thirty years was 
in business as a truckman. In 1883. lie opened the lunch room ou 
the first floor of the building. No. 126 Bedford Street, and this has 
an area of 50x100 feet. It was fitted up In the most elegant and 
attractive manner, yet convenience and comfort were not sacri- 
ficed to mere display, attraction and comfort. Wholesome, 
rellsh.able lunches were provided at popuLar prices, and merchants, 
clerks and others h.ave soon discovered that this was a place in 
which to take "mine ease In mine inn," that the appetite could 
here be appeased with everything it could crave tor, and a* rea- 
sonable prices. In 1884 he fitted up the second floor of the build- 
ing ,as a general dining room. He has recently removed to No. 132 
Essex Street. This Is a finely fitted up lunch room, and visitors 
find here a cordial welcome, every comfort and convenience, civil 
attendance, food of tlie flnest quality and of great variety, and 
charges tlie most reason.abie. It Is Just the place for a hungry 
man to get into, and when he gets out of it he will do so feeling 
good, and that he has li.ad his money's worth. Mr. Fisk believes 
in giving satisfaction, and that is the secret of his success and 
popularity. 

HOLWAY BROS. & WOODBURY, Sail Makers, No. 130 Com- 
mercial Street.— The old established concern of Messrs. 
Holway Bros. & Woodbury, was organized In 1864 under 
the style of Holway & Woodbury. In 1868 the firm was 
reorganized and became .as now, Holway Bros & Woodbury, the 
co-partners being Messrs. Lemuel and James O. Holway and Mr. 
Nelson Woodbury. Throughout its career the concern has had a 
successful and enviable record and Its trade relations extend to 
all parts of the New England and the United States. The premises 
devoted to the business comprise two floors, each floor having an 
area or25xl25feet, and provided with every modern mechanical ap- 
pliance necessary to the successful carrying on of the business, and 
employment is afforded to from five to fifteen hands. In the way 
of tents a large variety of styles are made, and for all purposes, 
including A tents, round or ball tents, croquet and lawn tennis 
tents, wall tents, and lawn canopies, .as well as large tents for pic- 
nics, agricultural fairs, etc. The house manufactures sails of 
every description, and of all sizes. In the manufacture of sails 
for yachts and awnings the firm have gained, .as in the other depart- 
ments of their business, a very high reputation, all the material 
entering into their work being of a thoroughly reliable character, 
while the work itself is ftrstcLass .and prompt in execution. The 
firm buy and sell secondhand s.ails and second hand duck for cov- 
ers, and have always in stock sails to let and hire. The members 
of the firm are all pr.actic.al workmen in the business, and their 
long experience has given them a knowledge which Is a great ben- 
fit to consumers. The brothers, Holway, are natives of Cape Cod, 
and Mr. Woodbury was born at Gloucester, Mass., and are well- 
known in their line. 



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LSISKIND & CO., Five and Ten Cent Goods, Etc., No. 106 Lev- 
erett Street.— The busines.s conducted by L. Siskind & Co., 
is a bazaar and fancy goods emporium combined, and lias 
been in succes.sfill operation for the past tour years, and 
is headquarters for all kinds of five and ten cent goods. The store 
is spacious in size, attractive in all its arrangements and appoint- 
ments, and stocked to overflowing with a brilliant bewildering 
display of crockery, china, glass and tinware, dry and fancy goods, 
cutlery and stationery, toys and games. For general holiday goods 
and novelties of every description we commend our readers to 
visit Siskind's. Of French toys, German toys, Yankee toys, toys 
lor girls, and toys tor boys, there is an immense assortment. Tlien 
there are books and games, brica-brac of every description, ivory 
and leatlier goods, ornamented buttons, fans, pocket books, brass 
goods and small articles in endless variety. Then there is also 
a display of the practical and serviceable, handsomely ornamented 
toilet sets, breakfast, dinner and tea sets, ranging in value from 
the plainest to tlie most elaborate; dress goods, laces and em- 
broidery, fine stationery, etc. Bargains are here offered that have 
no equal in the city, while at holiday time tlie store is thronged. 
Customers are waited upon promptly and courteously. Mr. Siskind, 
the active member of the firm, is a native of Kussia. From three 
to four assistants are employed and as they are courteous and 
polite, none go away dissatislied. 

FAMILY GROCERY AND WINE STORE, P. H. Desmond, Man- 
ager; No. 21 Leverett Street.— For thirty odd years or more 
the popular and excellent family grocery and wine 
store now conducted by P. H. Desmond, h,as maintained an 
enduring hold on public favor. The reliable and well known store 
was originally establislied in 1858 by Charles Jarvis, wlio was suc- 
ceeded on February, 1888, by the firm of Ennis & Dewey, and on 
the following May came under the management of Mr. Desmond, 
■under whose judicious management the business has since 
been continued with gratifying success. The premises occu- 
pied are compact, ample and well kept, two efllcient clerks 
being in attendance, while a large and excellent stock is con- 
stantly carried, including choice teas and collees, fresh and pure 
spices, condiments, sauces, pickles and table delicacies, canned 
goods in great variety, dried fruit, fine creamery butter, cheese 
and eggs, best brands of flour, meal, beans, peas, rice, lard, 
sugars, syrups, molasses, vinegar, salt, soda, flsli, soaps, starch, 
etc.; also pure wines, liquors, ales, and bottled goods, for 
medicinal and family use, and the patronage, which is large and 
prosperous, gives evidence of steady increase. The manager, Mr. 
Desmond, who is a n.ative of Ireland, but a resident of this coun- 
try tliirty-two years, is a man of energy, sagacity and good busi- 
ness qualities and well merits the liberal measure of popular favor 
he enjoys. 

CE, WHITE, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc., No. 273 Hanover Street.— 
This gentleman has been established in the business here 
for a period of twenty years, and has built up a reputation 
and a trade of which be may well be proud. He deals ex- 
tensively at both wholesale and retail in cigars and tobacco, and 
all other smokers' articles, supplying a large and flrst-class trade 
throughout New England] and also exporting tobacco to 
England and other foreign countries As fine an assort- 
ment of cigars, tobacco and smokers' articles are kept in 
stock as can be found in the city. A large storehouse is operated 
on Central Wharf to accommodate surplus stock, and the re- 
sources of the house enable it to guarantee the prompt .and perfect 
tullillmentof all orders, of whatever magnitude. The best possi- 
ble facilities are possessed for reaching the best manufacturers 
both at home and abroad, and the best supplies are secured at such 
advantageous rates as enable the proprietor to offer the rarest in- 
ducements to his patrons. Mr. White is a native of Maine, of 
large and valuable experience in business. 

HENRY S. LOMBARD, Clothing and Gentlemen's Outfitter, 
Nos. 46-52 Clinton Street.— In the clothing and gentlemen's 
outfitting trade, a house which is well known in Boston is 
the old established one of Henry S. Lombard, Nos. 46-52 
Clinton Street. This flourishing business dates its establishment 
back to the year 1855. Mr. Lombard has occupied the same prem- 



ises during all that time, comprising a store having a frontage ol 
sixty feet, and two upper floors, where lie carries a large stock ol 
clothing. He makes a specialty of all styles of butchers' frocks, 
which he manufactures, and carries one of the largest stocks to be 
found in Boston and at prices which defy competition, as well as 
yachtsmen's outfits of which he keeps a splendid viiriety. Four 
assistants are employed in the business which has long been ol 
an extensive description, owing to the fine qu.ality of goods which 
Mr. Lombard has invariably kept and the reasonable prices he has 
always charged for the same. Mr. Lombard is a native of Truro, 
Mass. He is an active business man and stands high in the com- 
mercial community of Boston, 

NEW ENGLAND SUPPLY COMPANY, Clothing, Dry Goods, 
Jewelry Etc. ,ORice:No.86 Court Street.— This enterprise had 
its origin five years ago, and in 1885 it came under the direc 
tion and control of Mr. J. Waxinivn, who has built up a 
trade of considerable magnitude in clothing, dry goods, jewelry, 
furniture, carpets, etc., on the weekly payment plan at strictly 
cash prices. The company have a well appointed office at the ad- 
dress indicated, but do not carry any stock. Arrangements have 
been made with the leading houses in the various branches of bus- 
iness in tlie city, and customers of the company .are given orders 
upon these houses, where they can secure anything they need, the 
company being responsible to such houses. Thus customer are 
afl'orded the most ample choice of goods at cash prices, while they 
have the .advantage of meeting the cost by weekly payments of an 
easy character. Through its good offices many persons witli small 
wage earnings have been enabled to secure in times of necessity 
most useful goods and to enjoy the use of them while they were 
paying for them in sums regulated to come within their means. 
Mr. Waxman, the manager, is a most energetic and wide-awake 
business man. He was born in Poland, but lived in England and 
Australia most of his life before coming to the United States, ten 
years ago. 

J WARREN GILL, Fish, Oysters, Lobsters, Clams, Etc., No. 
88 Staniford Street.— Notable among those who have for 
years been supplying the citizens of Boston and vicinity 
with fish, oysters, etc., is Mr. J. Warren Gill, who has 
unusu.al facilities for securing the finest oysters, clams, lobsters, 
and all the various kinds of fish, and supplies a large, first-class 
custom. The market is kept neat and clean and every morning 
is supplied with the choicest sea food and also river and lake fish 
when ill sejison. He is one of the largest dealers in the section 
of the city in which he is located, and can always oBer 
the best inducements to his patrons. He h.as been in tlie busi- 
ness since 1873 and was formerly located at Nos. 54-56 Green 
Street, removing in May last to the very desirable premises nowr 
occupied at No. 88 New Staniford Street. Mr. Gill, who is a native 
of Cape Cod, is thoroughly posted and famili.ar with every detail 
of the fish and oyster business, and is very popular in this com- 
munity. 

AH. LIVERMORE, Surgeon and Mechaniciil Dentist, No. 
140 Court Street.— For fully a quarter of a century. Dr. A. 
H. Livermore, surgeon and mechanical dentist, has occu- 
pied a distinguished position in his line and enjoyed a suc- 
cessful practice among tlie best people of Boston, as well as the 
surrounding country. Dr. Livermore, who is a native of New 
Hampshire, has been a resident of this city for thirty-four years 
.and nine years after his arrival, entered upon the practice of his 
profession, achieving in a short time a distinguished name for the 
successful manner he performed all operations, whether in the ex- 
tr.icting, filling or re-.irrangement of teeth. He occupies a h.and- 
some suite of rooms, embracing an elegant reception room, opera- 
ting room and private office and has every modern convenience 
and requisite in the dental art, including the latest scientific and 
artistic apparatus, making the establishment one of the best lap- 
pointed offices in the city. Lr. Livermore's long experience and 
first-cLass record put him among the leading surgeon and mechan- 
ical dentists of Boston. He is still one of the deftest men in his 
profession and is looked upon with respect both by his confreres 
and the general public because of his honorable methods and 
excellent workmanship. 



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BOSTON MERCANTILE BUSINESS COMPANY, F. D. Fiisbie, 
Maiiagei-, No. 22 School Street.— The Boston Mercantile 
Business Company was organized in 1888, and in the same 
year opened an ofBce, and bepan business en Bromfield 
Street. In July, 18S8, Mr. F. D. Frisbie became the proprietor, and 
removed the business to its present desirable site at No. 22 School 
Street. The Boston Mercantile Business Company furnishes duly 
qualified and properly attested employees tor all positions in the 
higlier wallcs of commercial and professional life, the method pur- 
sued being as follows: A merchant, banker, lawyer, et al, wishes 
to engage a competent clerk, cashier, stenographer, type-writer, 
etc. He hasn't the time, nor inclination, perliaps, to secure his 
man tlirough the connnon metliod of advertising and subsequent 
tedious examination of applicants, hence he writes the company, 
<lescribing the position to be filled, with a conimi.ssion to secure a 
proper party. This the company promptly does, and the applicant 
secures an employee thorouglily competent and fully vouched for 
as to integrity, moral character, etc., these matters being a dis- 
tinctive feature of the business, for which the company assumes 
the responsibility. Mr. Frisbie, tlie enterprising young proprietor, 
is a son of the celebrated physician of that name, in Newtou, 
M.ass., and a gentleman in every way eminently well fitted for the 
business in hand. Although but little more than fairly started, he 
has already secured a large and influential patronage. Mr. Fris- 
bie has recently added to his enterprise a flrst-class sliort hand 
and type writing school. 

JT. OILMAN, Apothecary, No. 171 North Street.— No name is 
more closely identified with the drug trade in Boston tlian 
that of Mr. J. T. Giinian. Thebusiness was founded in 1850, 
by George Wilson, who died in 1860, and who wassucceeded 
by Geo. K. Lane. The business afterwards was conducted by Mr. 
Eichmond and finally in 1869 came into the hands of Mr. Gilman, 
who has carried it on with the greatest success ever since. Mr. 
Gilman is the oldest business man on North Street. He was born 
Jn New Hampsliire, studied medicine when young withhisuncle at 
Winterport, Maine, and has been a resident of Boston since 1847, 
Avhen he went to work in a drug store on North Street, remaining 
here up to the present time. The store is a neat and commodious 
one, 25x20 feet in dimensions, and contains a full line of the purest 
and freshest drugs and chemicals, as well asproprietarymedicines 
of various kinds, surgical and f.incy goods, etc. The preparafions 
of the house are well-known, .and include first-class cough and di- 
arrlioea medicines, which are highly popular tlirougliout tlie city. 
Mr. Gilman has a large family and prescription trade and bears 
the highest reputation in his line for reli.abilify and skill. He sells 
no alcoholic articles of any kind, having kept no liquors in his 
establishment since it came under his control. 

JAMES LAPWORTH, Carving, Designing .and Mould Sinking, 
No. 35 Sudbury Street.— Barbari.an and civilized races of all 
ages have cultivated this art, perfecting it and carrying it 
forward from generation to generation, until to-day artistic 
carving is as much appreciated as it ever could have been in the 
days of old. In his line Mr. Lapworth is an expert, and his ability 
is backed by an experience of a practical character extending over 
a period of thirty years. He was born in England, .and twenty-two 
years ago came to America. In 1886 he began business in Boston 
at No. 100 Sudbury Street, .and on Nov. 1, 1888, removed to No. 35, 
where he has commodious quarters, well-equipped for executing 
all kinds of carving, designing and mould-sinking. He has a fine 
busine.ss connection throughout Mass.achusetts, is a resident of 
Melrose, and a gentleman who is prompt and reliable in all his 
'dealings. 

ELLA C. MCLEAN, Artist, 503 Washington 'Street.— Miss Mc- 
Lean, who is a native of Boston and a young artist of pro- 
nounced natural ability, after the careful study and practi- 
cal experience of sever.al years, established herself .as an 
«xponent of the profession in 1885, and has since won a liberal 
share of public favor and the patronage of many of the best-known 
residents of the metropolis. Miss McLean occupies .an elegantly 
appointed apartment as her studio, .and is prep.ared to give the 
most s.atisfactory and conscientious attention to painting of all 
kinds for decoration, as well as to pupils of all ages, and stages of 



.advancement in the art "beautiful." Her charges for painting 
lessens by the quarter are exceedingly moderate, and a specialty 
is made of giving lessens to classes or private pupils on Tuesday 
or Friday evenings, when the studio is lighted by electric lights 
and every facility is at hand for achieving the most satisfactory 
results in every branch of art decoration, portrait painting, etc. 
Miss McLean deservedly enjoys the most exemplary of reputations 
as a faithful, .able and conscientious teacher. The number of her 
patrons increase each year, and she occupies a leading position 
among the best-known and most clever lady artists in the city. 

CLYDE C. CLARK, Printer and Publisher of the Spirit of the 
Hub, Nos. 10 State, and 198 Washington Streets.— The house^ 
of Mr. Clyde C. Clark, the printer of the popular sporting-' 
p.aper the Spirit of the Hub, has long enjoyed an enviable 
reputation for theexeellence of its productions. As abook and job 
printer, Mr. Claik is highly regarded as a master of his art in all 
its details, and is prepared to promptly meet every demand of the 
public in this line of enterprise. His premises are spacious and 
commodious, handsomely fitted up, conveniently located and 
thoroughly equipped with every requisite necessary for the suc- 
cessful prosecution of the business. He is prepared to execute 
every description of plain and ornamental printing at the shortest 
notice and most reasonable prices. His specimens of programmes, 
bill-heads, cards and invitations to balls, weddings and parties 
show the utmost skill and a just conception of the artistic in de- 
signing new and novel styles. The Spirit of the Hub has a wide 
and steadily increasing circulation, is a model of excellence in 
typogr.aphy. and edited with ability. All the news in sporting 
matters are given in an entertaining vein, and the information it 
contains may be relied upon as accurate and trustworthy. Mr. 
Clark in a native of Stoughton, Mass., a practical printer of large 
experience and high reput.ation. 

WETMORE & STORY, Merchant Tailors, No. 17 Essex 
Street.— Messrs. Wetinore & Story are practical skilled 
cutters of judgment and t.aste, which with their experi- 
ence in the business combine to make their services de- 
sirable by those who wish to be well and fashionably dressed. The 
handsomely fitted up store is admirably arranged, and upon the 
counters is displayed a large and valuable assortment of fine 
woolens, suitings, cloths, etc., of both foreign and domestic pro- 
ductions, in all the new and beautiful styles and fashionable de- 
signs. Tlie goods have been carefully selected, expressly for a fas- 
tidious custom, and every attention is given to cutting, making 
and .trimming of all garments ordered. Mr. O. F. Wetmore and 
Mr. L. J. Story, the copartners, are both young men, natives of Bos- 
ton, and are among the most popular exponents of the merchant 
tailoring art in the city. They h.ave been associ.vted in business 
for seven years, and since 1885 have occupied the very eligible 
premises at No. 17 Essex street, and number among their patrons 
many of the leading citizens. 

HM. SCRIBNER & CO., Portrait Artists and Photograhers, 
No. 63 Court Street.— In reviewing the establishments 
devoted to this interesting and useful branch of art, more 
than passing notice should be given tliat of Messrs. H. 
M. Scribner & Co , the talented and well known artists, who have 
long won favor and recognition for skill and reliability. This 
popular and prosperous studio was established in 1877 by the Alden 
Plioto Co., who conducted the same up to April, 1888, when they 
were succeed by Ward & Scribner, the style changing to H. M. 
Scribner & Co., (A. J. Alden) in November last. The premises 
occupied are commodious and well equipped, all the latest im- 
proved apparatus and photo appliances being in service, while 
several competent assistants are employed. Everything compre- 
hended in modern photography, including pictures of every size, 
style and variety, from a life size portrait to the most diminutive 
finger ring, is done in the most .satisfactory manner, at prices im- 
measurably lower than those prevailing for the same class of work 
in Boston ; old photographs being copied and enlarged in Al style, 
fine portraitsbeing a specialty. Pictures are Hnished in crayon, 
oil, pastel, India ink, etc., while outside work is promptly .and 
reliably executed likewise, this firm being agents; for the Alden 
Photo Co., which make this a special feature. 



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BARKER & STARBIRD, Headquarters for Amateur Photog- 
raphers, Photographic Apparatus, Dry Plates and Chemi- 
cals, Picture Frames, Etc., No. 5fl Bromfield Street.— A 
leading house in Boston engaged in this line of trade is that 
of Messrs. Barker & Starhird, whose headquarters for amateu- 
photograpliers, and pliotograpliic apparatus, is located at No. 56 
BroniHeld Street. The individual members of the Brm are Mr. F. 
R. Barker a native of this city, who was formerly in the 
starch business with Iiis father on Commercial Street, and Mr. 
N. W. Starbird, until lately a buyer for the Danvers Hospital 
at Danvers, Mass., and is also a Bostonian by birth. The busi 
ne.ss was founded originally by Mr. C. R. Selee in 1880, and 
continued by him very successfully until 1888 when Mr. Barker was 
admitted as a partner, and the business was conducted by them for 
a short time un.der the Arm name of Selee & Barker, and upon the 
retirement of the former in October the same year, Mr Starbird 
entered into the business, since which date the business has been 
carried on with increased patronage and influence under the pres- 
ent firm title. The premises occupied are spacious and commodi- 
ons, and are fitted up with every convenience for the display of 
goods and all f.acilities for the transaction of business. They keep 
constantly on hand a full and complete stock of amateur photog- 
raphers' supplies, embracing entire outfits, such as cameras, tri- 
pods, lenses, slides, caps, drop-shutters, dry-plates, batlis, sensi- 
tized paper, chemicals, chloride of gold, etc., in fact every 
thing pertaining to a perfect outfit. They .also carry a fine sup- 
ply of frames, materials for mounting, albums, etc. These 
goods are all received direct from producers and are sold at 
the very lowest prices. Tliey deal in first-class articles only iind 
have a very large patronage throughout the New England States. 
Polite and .attentive assistants are employed. A specialty of this 
house is promptness and care in filling all orders, a matter well 
worthy of consideration to purchasers. Both Messrs. Barker and 
Starbird are well worthy of the large and increasing patronage 
they now enjoy. In connection with theirestablishment they have 
a desk room and reading room for the free use of their customers- 

ROBERT MILLER & CO.. Manuf.actnrer9 of Sails, Awnings, 
Etc., No. 230 State Street.— One of the oldest industries in 
Boston is that of s.ail making, and it is one that dates back 
to the days of the first settlers of New England. For more 
than thirty years the establishment of Mr. Robert Miller, the sail 
and awning manufactuier, of No. 230 State Street, has been a noted 
one in the trade, and has earned a high reputation among ship build- 
for the strength and durability of Its sails. The late Mr. Robert Mil. 
Icr, senior, started this business in 1846 and continued it until Decem- 
ber.l884,when he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Robert Miller, who 
was born and reared in the business, and is familiar with itsevery 
detail. The premises occupied for the business comprise the three 
upper floors of a five-story building, and these are equipped with 
every modern mechanical appliance necessary for the successful 
operation of the business, which consists of the manufacture of 
sails of all kinds (especially of yacht sails), awnings, horse, wiigon 
and pi.ano covers, canopies, flags, tents, etc. Tents, from the 
smallest round or bell patterns, to the largest for i 'cnses. agrieul- 
tural fairs, etc .arem.adetoorder. and tents can eithi . be purchased 
or hired. In the m,inur.acture of yacht sails the hi ,isc has gained 
a high reputation for excellence of material, neatness of finish and 
promptness of execution, also in the making of canopies, awnings 
and flags j a full stock of awning goods .and flagmateri.ils being con- 
stantly kept on hand. A specialty is made of Gymnasium goods and 
his aim is to use only the best materials obtainable, to employ only 
the most experienced hands, and to put his manufacture? on the 
market at the lowest possible price. The strict adherence to these 
points, coupled with the integrity and straightforwardness on the 
part of Mr. Miller, in all his business relations, has led to the house 
having meted out to it a large and substantial patronage. 

STEPHEN P. BROOKS. Manufacturer of Pianos, No. 55K Sud- 
bury Street.— Mr. Brooks h.is been engaged in this special 
line of manufacture since 1854, and has made many valuable 
improvements in the action and arrangement of the sound- 
ing board which greatly adds to the effectiveness of the instrument 
in qu.ality of tone and ease of touch. He manufactures both grand 
and upright pianos in elaborate, new style, highly polished casi-s. 



and can furnish an instrument equal to the best made In the coun- 
try at the low price of Sl.W. Mr. Brooks is a Massachusetts man 
and has lived in Boston forty years, and was for sometime 
engiiged in business .as a builder and contractor, and also 
in the clothing trade. He patented in 1854 an iron frame 
with a Hound board attached thereto without a wood back. In. 
1865, an upright pianoforte action, in 1865, a piano-forte action- 
In 1857, he found that an upright piano with a light frame would 
not stand in tune because the blow of the hammer being struck to- 
wards the pin, was liable to start the pin, so he arranged to string 
the piano with nuts and screws, and put bars on the plate so the 
string was drawn in the centre of the bars. Later he patented a 
pi.ano in which the outer case and cover, act as a sound-board, 
and a string phate hung within a sound board; also an im- 
provement in stringing with nuts and screws when one nut 
runs beneath the other, also, a piano with two sets of strings 
drawn in different angles, and crossing, one on the plane of the 
other set at the striking point, .also, an elastic hammer, where the 
portion that gives the blow is open or hollow. 

ALLEN BROTHERS, Manuf.actnrers and Dealers in Rubberand 
Steel St.amps, No. 136 \V.ashiiigton Street. — A widely 
known Boston firm engaged in the manufacturing of 
stamps, stencils, presses and kindred devices, is that of 
Allen Brothers. It is one of the leading and best equipped con- 
cerns of the kind in this city, and has a large and flourishing trade 
throughout the New England States, besides a fine local patron- 
age, with some export also to South America and Europe. This 
business was established in 1857, and under the firm n.ame that 
he.ads this sketch has since been conducted with uniform success, 
a branch store having been opened in 1885> They occupy ample 
and well equipped quarters, and employ some eight or more ex- 
pert luands, the articles produced being of a very superior charac- 
ter. The firm manufacture and keep in stock everything in the 
line of steel and rubber stamps, burning brands, check protectors, 
stencils, seal presses, dog collars, etc., and all orders for the trade 
are executed in the most expeditious .and excellent manner. Mr. 
N. H. Allen, who is the sole member of the firm since the retire- 
ment of his brother, J. E. Allen in 1883, is a man of long, practical 
experience in this line of business. 

SC. HAYES & CO., Commission Merchants, and Receivers of 
H.ay, Straw and Grain, No. 106 (anal Street.— Twenty odd 
I years of uninterupted prosperity sums up in brief the 
history of the well-known and responsible firm ofS. C. 
Hayes & Co., commission merchants, and receivers of hay, straw 
and grain. The firm carries on a geneial commission business in 
baled hay, straw, oats, corn, rye, barley, me.al and niillfeed. 
Keeping on hand at the various railroad freight depots in the city 
a big stock— carloads being sold on the tr.ack. and the tr.ade of the 
firm, which is of a wholesale nature exclusively, extends through- 
out Boston and surrounding cities and towns. Mr. S. C. Hayes, who 
is and li.asalw.ays been the sole member, is a gentleman of middle 
age. and a native of New Hampshire, but a resident of this city many 
years. He Is a m.an of entire probity in his business rel.ations, as 
well as of energy and Judicious enterprise, thoroughly conversant 
with the trade, and enjoys an excellent ;reputatlon. 

CHAS. F. UBBIE, .III., Proprietor Libbie's Show Print, No. U 
Hayward Place.— One of the largest establishments in the 
printing trade in Boston, is that of Chas. F. Libbie, Jr., No. 
11 Hayward Place, which is well known in connection with 
show printing of all kinds. Mr. Libbie, who is a Boston man in 
his twenty-eighth year, has had a long experience in his line, and 
:s well fitted by first-class business aptitude to conduct th& 
iarge concern under his control in a successful way. He estab- 
lished the business in 1886, the premises he acquired being of the 
most commodious description, comprising three floors, 25x60 feet 
in dimensions, provided throughout with every convenience for the 
trade, elaborate fonts of the largest job type in a multitude of 
styles, and every requisite of a thoroughly equipped oftlce for show 
printing of the finest kind. Two cylinder presses of the fastest 
make and four job presses are kept running in the establishment, 
wliile twenty men find constant employment in the various de- 
partments of the business. 



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WRIGHT BROTHERS & CO., M.anufacturers of Umbrellas 
and Parasols ; Warerooms, Nos. 63 and 65 Essex Street, 
Boston ; Factories: Nos. 6, 8, 10, 12, H, 25 and 27 Hudson 
Street, Philadelphia.— An extensive business conducted 
under the above title constitutes the Boston branch of the old, 
time-honored an<l representative house of that source whose large 
manufactories are among the foremost industries of Philadelphia 




Uid New Yoiii— till inanuf.ictui) being locited in the formei, and 
the mam distubuting depot in the latter cities The Boston 
branch was estaDlisned in 1S7U on Cnauncey street nut was re- 
moved to the present eligible site in January Last. The sp.acious 
salesroom, 37x72 feet in dimensions, is fitted up in a manner appro- 
priate to the business and every facility is at hand for the advan- 
tageous display of the fine stock of goods. The umbrellas and 
parasols manufactured by the Sfessrs. Wright Bros. & Co., are too 
well known and have too wide a celebrity to require an extended 
discription at our hands. Suffice ittosay, therefore, they represent 
the highest degree of artistic and mechanical excellence while in 
point of variety and general beauty of design, excellence of work- 
manship, durability, etc., they stand unriv.alled in the trade. In 
the attractive salesroom in this city will be found a large compre- 
liensive and complete stock of these famous goods which are sup- 
plied to the trade throughout New England at factory prices. Mr. 
G. P. Howlett, the Boston manager, in a gentleman thoroughly 
conversant with the business in which he has had a large and var- 
ied experience. 

LOUIS JESELSOHN, Tobacconist, No. 213 Hanover Street- 
Mr. Louis Jeselsohn began business in 1882, and here he 
has built up a trade of such magnitude that reflects the 
highest credit upon his business ability. He occupies a 
handsomely appointed and well arranged store, which has an area 
of 25x35 ftet, and it is at all times stocked with a well selected and 
extensive ■issortnient of the most popular brands of cigars of both 
foreign and domestic manufacture, together with all the leading 
varieties of smoking and chewing tobaccos, meerschaum pipes and 
cigar holders, and smokers' articles of every description. Mr. 
Jeselsohn does an important tr.ade in the importing of cig.ars,both 
hand and mould made, and of fine and medium grades. The busi- 
ness is a brisk one, and e.xtends throughout the city ,and suburbs. 
Dealers can secure here the best goods .at the most liberal prices 
and prompt service, while consumers can always rely upon secur- 
ing cigars and tobaccos of the finest quality at the mostreiisonable 
nates with courteous attention. Mr. Jeselsohn was born in Ger- 
many, and for the past eighteen years has resided in fhe United 
States. 

ROBERT H. CARLETON & CO , M.anufacturer and Wholesale 
and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, No. 196 Hanover 
Street.— This enterprising house was founded in 1873 by 
Mr. Carleton, and he conducted the business alone until 
1886, when he took Into p.artnership, Mr. Henry E. Hagen, who is a 
native of New Brunswick, and a gentleman who has had a long 
practical experience in the shoe trade. Mr. Carleton, is a n.a- 
tive of Massachusetts, has a thorough knowledge of the business, 
and the stock carried by the firm is at all times a thoroughly re- 
presentative one of all that is stylish and popular in every de- 
scription of foot-wear. The store has an area of 18x40 feet, and is 
tastefully and attinctively fitted up. A brisk local patronage 
is enjoyed and every satisfaction is given to patrons in the quality 
of goods and prices. 



TW. GLEESON & CO., Electricians, No. 62 Sudbury Street.— 
Sowhere in America or Europe lias there been made more 
, progress both in scientific and mechanical branches ap- 
pertaining to electricity than here in Boston— its very 
Birthplace, so to speak— which Justly boasts of a number of electri- 
cians of exceptional ability. Among those referred to may be 
mentioned the name of T. W. Gleeson, doing business under the 
style of T. W. Gleeson & Co., at No. 62 Sudbury Street, and who 
sustains an Al reputation for skill and reliabity. Mr. Gleeson, 
who is a comparatively young man and a luative of this city, is a 
thoroughly practical and expert electrician, of several years ex- 
perience in his profession, , and is a complete master of the art in 
all its branches, while he was, prior to starting in business on his 
own account a few months since, .assistant to Prof. Bell, some tour 
years and subsequently foreman for Williams & Co., for six years. 
Mr. Gleeson occupies .ample and well equipped quarters, h.aving 
steam power and all necessary appliances in service, and employs 
half a dozeu competent assist,ants. He is prepared to enter into 
Contr,acts for everything in the lineof electrical woi-t;, experiment- 
ing being a leading specialty, and also manufactures, to order, 
electric and magnetic b.atteriesandkindred apparatus of every de- 
scription, in the most reliable manner, atshort notice. A complete 
and flrst-class assortment is always carried on hand, likewise, in- 
cluding telegraph and electrical instruments, galvanic batteries, 
medical batteries, electric bells, burglar alarms, gas lighters, an- 
nunciators, etc., while jobbing also is promptly attended to, and 
all work executed by this firm is fully warranted to render satis- 
faction. 

SHURTLEFF BROTHERS, Commission Merchants and Whole- 
sale Dealers in Fruits and Produce, No. 47 Commercial 
Street.— This pushing and responsible firm was started in 
April, 1888, and by judicious enterprise and untiring energy, 
coupled with sterling integrity, soon won favor and recognition, 
acquiring in a short time a nourishing business. .\I1 the transac- 
tions of the house are conducted on sound and conservative busi- 
ness principles; a special feature being made of prompt returns 
for consignments in every instance. Messrs. Shurtleft handle for- 
eign and domestic fruits of every variety in their season ; also 
vegetables, nuts, berries and country produce generally ; fruits 
being a specialty, however, and employ four experienced sales- 
men. A heavy and carefully assorted stock is constantly carried 
on hand, including oranges, lemons, apples, tropical fruits, etc. 
all orders receiving prompt and satisfactory .attention, and 
the trade of the firm, which is principally located in and around 
the city, is large and substantial. MessiL. Charles L. and Jesse P. 
Shurtleff are Canadians by birth, bnt have resided In Boston a 
long time, and are respected members of the Fruit and Produce 
Exchange. 

HB. HOBBS, Carriage, Sign and Fancy Painter, No. 304 Com- 
mercial Street.— For strictly Al work in the line of plain 
^ and artistic painting, or for promptness and reliability, 
not one in the business in this quarter of the city any where 
excels H. B. Hobbs, the well known carriage, sign and fancy painter. 
Mr. Hobbs has resided in this city for nearly a quarter of a century. 
He is a pr.actical and expert painter of long and varied experience, 
and is a thorough master of his art in all its branches. He estab- 
lished himself in business in his native place in 1861, and four 
years subsequently moved to Boston, opening a shop on Commercial 
Street, whence he moved to the present commodious quarters some 
three years since. He occupies here one 50x75 foot floor, and 
keeps constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of 
paints, oils, colors, varnishes, whitele,ad, gold and bronze powders, 
ghass signs, show cards, and kindred .articles, while a competent 
force of workman are employed. Painting in all its branches is 
executed in the highest style of the art at reasonable rates, special 
attention being given to fancy sign and carriage painting: also 
marbling, graining and artistic work: while ship's carving, etc., 
are gilded, and cabins filled and polished in the most superior 
style, at short notice. Show cards and glass signs are made to 
Older, likewise in novel and .attractive designs, while cloth letter- 
ing is done also in the most prompt and excellent manner, the pro- 
Iirietor exercising close personal supervision over all work exe- 
cuted. 



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JOHN H. WOODMAN, Manutactuier and Dealer in Gent's 
Hand and Macliine-made Boots and Slioes, No. 13 Devonshire 
Street.— In the department of industry devoted to the manu- 
facture of gentlemen's fine footwear, we find a leading es- 
tablisliment in Boston to be that of Mr. John H. Woodman. 
This gentleman is a sliilled expert in every department of his 
vocation, gives his personal attention to all the details of his 
business, employs none but the most experienced workmen, and 
Iiis goods are the acme of perfection in every respect. The 
l)usiness of this house was inauguaratcd over twelve years 
ago by C. L. Stearns & Co., by whom it was conducted until 
1871, when the present proprietor succeeded to the control. Under 
Ills able management tlie volume of trade has steadily increased, 
and the house lias permanent patrons in various parts of Boston 
and tlie surrounding towns. The store and worlishop are amply 
spacious and are provided with the most improved facilities for the 
successful carrying on of tlie business. A force of sicilled work- 
men are given constantemployment, only the best of materials are 
utilized in the production, and the range of manufacture embraces 
the finest of French and American calf and horseliide hand and 
machine sewed boots and slices for gentlemen's wear. These are 
made to order and tor stock, a good assortment constantly being 
carried on hand, and all goods purcliased from this establishment 
may be depended upon to be tlie best that human hands can pro- 
duce. Mr. Woodman, who is a native of this stale, enjoys a superior 
reputation in mercantile circles, and invariably wins the fullest es- 
teem of bis customers. 

F THOMAS, Manufacturer of Pure Candies, No. 65 Temple 
Place.— One of tlie most prominent and reliable houses in 
Boston engaged in the manufacture of specialties in fine 
confections and pure candies is tliat of F. Thomas. Tliis 
is an old and popular stand and lias been under the control of tlie 
present proprietor since 1884. The premises occupied for the busi- 
ness are spacious in size, elegant in all tlieir arrangements and ap- 
pointments, and possessing every modern improvement for insur- 
ing rapid and perfect iiroduction. Tliis liouse is the recognized 
headquarters among critical consumers in tliis city for delicate 
flavors, finest quality and popular prices. The output is one of 
great magnitude and variety, including creams, cliocolates and 
caramels, gum-drops, lozenges and candy sticks, bonbons, choice 
confections and pure candies, also a full line of tlie basket, boxes 
and chocolate novelties of the most desirable description. Purity 
is;the main essential witli tliese goods, and mail and express orders 
to all parts of the country are promptly tilled. Mr. Tliomas, the 
enterprising proprietor, is a well known Boston man, born and 
bred, and justly merits the success and popularity lie has achieved. 

WJ. FITZEMEYER. Plain and Ornamental Japanner, 
No. 138 Blackstone Street.— An old established, repre- 
sentative japanner in Boston is Mr. W. J. Fitzemeyer, 
who has been in the business nearly a quarter of a 
century. He commenced in a small way on Union Street, 
where he remained only about six months, when he moved 
to the premises now occupied. His establishment is well equipped 
witli all the requisite appliances, and he is kept constantly en- 
gaged Uliing orders. Several competent workmen are employed, 
and plain and ornamental japanning in all branches is executed, 
in the best manner, Mr. Fitzemeyer also makes a special business 
of lettering tin signs to order and bronzing, gilding and graining. 
He is an expert, practical skilled workman and is prompt in his 
attention to all work entrusted to him. He was born in Germany, 
and came to this country nearly thirty-live years ago. 

NICHOLS & FISH, Manufacturers of Cigar Boxes, and Dealers 
in Kibbons, Labels, and Cigar Manufacturers' Supplies, 
No. 40 Lincoln Street.— Boston lias within it many estab- 
lishments devoted to the manufacture and handling of 
cigar manufacturers' supplies, and in tliis line Messrs. Nichols & 
Fish occupy a distinctive and prominent position. The leading 
specialty of this firm is the manufacture of cigar boxes, while they 
also control a very large trade as dealers in ribbons, labels and 
cigar manufacturers' supplies of all kinds. Tlie business was 
founded originally in 1883 by Mr. F. M. Holmes, with whom Mr. C. 
D. Fish entered into partnership in 1887. In September, 1888, Mr. 



C. N. Nichols purchased Mr. Holmes' interest in the enterprise, 
and thereupon the style of the concern became, as now, Nichols Sc 
Fish. The firm's factory comprises one floor, having an area of 
30x100 feet, and this is equipped witli all the latest improved mod- 
ern machinery and is complete with every convenience. Fifteen 
hands are employed in this department and about three thousand 
boxes are produced weekly. The firm also occupy a commodious 
floor in the adjoining building for storage purposes, and have 
ahvays on band not only cigar boxes in vast numbers, but au 
almost endless assortment of labels, ribbons and cigar manufac- 
turers' supplies of every description. In addition to their large 
city trade, the tirm have an extensive business connection through- 
out the New England States. Both partners are Bostoiiians, 
young energetic business men, who are worthily making the best 
of their opportunities. 

RICHARD HILLS, Watch Maker, and Dealer in Watches and 
Jewelry, No. 544 Washington Street.- This first-class busi- 
ness was founded in 1860 by Mr. Hills, wlio had many years 
experience as a practical watchmaker and was well quali- 
fied to carry on a business wliich would depend for success on the 
fiue character of the work done. In 1871 he removed to his present 
fine location, which is 22x35 feet in dimensions, and is fitted up 
throughout in first-class style. Mr. Hills carries a fine line of gold 
and silver watches of tlie leading movements in plain and orna- 
mental casings, diamonds, jewelry of every description, silverware, 
etc., which oilers a splendid selection to the purchasing public at 
prices as low as those of any other first-class house. He employs 
two assistants, and does repairing of all kinds on watches and 
jewelry at the lowest rates and in tlie promptest manner. His trade 
is very extensive tlirougliont the city, and his customers are to be 
founu among the best class of people. Mr. Hills is a native of the 
State, sixty-two years of age, and is justly held to be one of the 
most skilled and reliable watchmakers in Boston. 

FRANK H.HOWLAND, Men's Furnishings, No. 129 Court Street. 
—An old establislied and excellent men's furnishing store Is 
the well ordered emporium conducted by Frank H. Howland. 
This thriving business was established many years .ago, and 
after several changes, about three years since came into control of 
the present proprietor who completely remodelled tlie establish- 
ment, and from tiie first has conducted it with uniform success. 
Nothing but fine goods are handled, and purchasers can rely upon 
finding a very superior article, courteous attention and satisfac- 
tory treatment in every instance here. Tlie store is compact, 
ample and very tastefully fitted up. A large and Al stock is con- 
stantly carried including fine dress shirts, novelties in neckwear, 
collars and cuffs in all the recent styles, eleg.ant underwear in 
great variety, hosiery, gloves, suspenders, umbrellas, handker- 
chiefs, scarfpins. sleeve buttons, shirt studs and everything com- 
prehended in gents' furnishings, fine custom shirts being a 
specialty, while laundryingis attended to also in flrst-classstyle,at 
very reasonable rates. Mr. Howland, who is a native of this city, 
is a gentleman of thorough reliability in his dealings. 

DOANE & CO., Ship Brokers, No. 105 Commerci.al Street.— The 
business of this concern was originally started In 1SC8, in the 
name of Doane &Cowell, and this was tlie style of llie house 
until 1885, wlien the firm dissolved partnership. Since then 
the enterprise has been conducted by Mr. Z. S. Doane alone under the 
firm name of Doane & Co. This gentleman, who is widely known 
among shippers and merchants of this port, is a native of Cape Cod 
and sixty-seven years of age. He is an old resident in Boston, and 
is personally largely interested in the shipping business. He has 
an interest in thirteen vessels and is the agent for two others, and 
is also a member of the Vessel-Owners' Association, where he is 
higlily esteemed for his business promptitude, reliability and in- 
tegrity. He is fully conversant with every detail and feature of 
ship broking .and the requirements of patrons. He lias every facil- 
ity for transacting his extensive and steadily increasing business, 
and he promptly places vessels at most favoiiible rates on all tlie 
leading tians-atlantic and other foreign routes as well as for co.ast 
service. Freight is also punctually sliipped to any desired port at 
satisfactory terms and jiersons having shipments cannot in any 
place make better rates than with tliis bouse. 



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Bo. & G. C. WILSON, Wholesale Botanic Druggists, No. 28 
Merchants Row.— The name ot Wilson will ever be hon- 
orably and prominently identified with the wholesale 
drug trade o£ Boston, and the country at large. Tlie 
business was established in 1842 by Mr. B. O. Wilson and Mr. G.C. 
Wilson, two brothers, natives ot Boston, who early became identi- 
fied with the trade in which they achieved such succe.'.s. Theii' father 
was also a member of the firm for thirty years and then retired. 
He is still living.a hale, hearty old man of ninety-one years of age, 
and whose reminiscences go back to a very early period ot the 
trade. Mr. G. C. Wilson died in 1861, and since that date, Mr. B. 
O. Wilson has continued the business as sole proprietor under the 
honored old rum name. The business has had a continuous 
growth, and has frequently required enlarged premises and facili- 
ties. Eight .years ago, Mr Wilson moved to his present centrally 
located premises in Merchants Row, between State Street .and 
Faneuil Hall, five stories in lieight, and 2.5 feet by 60 feet in dimen- 
sions. The stock stands far ahead of anything of the kind either 
in Boston or elsewhere in the United States Here are .all manner ot 
herbs and their extracts, barks, roots, leaves, gums, essential oils, 
tinctures, infusions, etc. Tliere is a splendidly equipped labora- 
tory in the establishment and all additional facilities. This is the 
only wholesale drug house in Boston that grinds its own drugs, 
and is the leading one in the preparation of staiile pharmaceutical 
products. Mr. Wilson luas iin Intimate knowledge ot botany and 
pharmaceutic science, and is likewise a keen and able business 
man, who secures his herbs, roots and drugs from the best direct 
sources. 

FJ. McFARLAND, Grocer, No. 425 Hanover Street.— This 
gentleman first began business on ClarkStreet in 1877, and 
^ in 1880 removed to his present location, where he occupies 
a neatly arranged salesroom, 25x35 feet in dimensions, and 
a basement of similar proportions. From the outset the business 
of this establishment has been conducted on fixed business princi- 
ples, and Its managenient characterized by energy, .ability and ju- 
dicious enterprise, and it has been characterized by a record of 
steady and substantial progress. A heavy ana fine stock is con- 
stantly carried, embr.acing pure teas, coffees, spices and canned 
goods In great variety, condiments, sauces, preserves and table 
luxuries; choice dairy butter and best brands ot family flour, 
household articles, sugar, molasses, rice, lard and a complete as- 
sortment of shelf goods and staple groceries. Competent and at- 
tentive assistants ai'e employed and customers can always rely 
upon courteous and prompt service, and upon obtaining the purest 
and most wholesome goods in the market at prices which cannot 
be surpassed by those of any other house in the trade. The busi- 
ness is of a retail character and altogether a large and flourishing 
business is done. Mr. McFarland, who is a native of Boston, is a 
gentleman of push and excellent business ability and is respected 
by all who come in contact with him. 

DW. KEYS & CO., Produce Commission Merchants, and 
Dealers in Country Produce, No. 116 South Market Street. 
I —Messrs. D. W. Keyes & Co., have been catering to a 
first-class trade tor more than forty years, and by keep- 
ing excellent goods, making satisfactory prices, treating every cus- 
tomer with uniform courtesy and politeness .and delivering purcha- 
ses promptly, they have succeeded in building up and retaining a 
custom extending widely throughout the city and suburban towns 
and even beyond. The firm are general produce commission 
merchants and dealers in butter, dried apples, etc., and all kinds 
of country produce, and the business has been conducted at its 
present location. No. IIB South Market Street, for the past thirteen 
years. The premises occupied are very commodious and are 
equipped with all appliances and conveniences tor the successful 
operation ot the business, which is exclusively of a wholesale 
character. Consignments are daily received from the best farm- 
ing sections of the country, and the stock is at all times tresh and 
choice and kept up to the highest standard ot excellence. Cour- 
teous and experienced .assistants arc employed and all orders .are 
filled with dispatch and at the lowest market rates. The proprie- 
tor, Mr. D. W. Keyes, was the founder of the business, and no 
merchant in his line ot trade Is held in higher repute. He is a na- 
tive of New H.ampsihre. 



WM. STEAKNS & CO., Wholesale Grocers, Etc., No. 
60 Chiitham Street.— This time-honored and deserv- 
edly popular house was founded more than sev- 
enty years ago by the late Mr. William Stearns, 
who, at the time of his death, in 1876, was one ot Bos- 
ton's oldest, most able and respected luerchanis, and a 
gentleman who did much to advance the commercial importance 
and gener.al welfare of the city. For halt a century Mr. J. D. 
Hutchinson, who is a native of Vermont, has been a member ot the 
firm; and his son, Mr. H. D. Hutchinson, who was born in Boston, 
h.as been a partner since 1888. The premises occupied for the busi- 
ness comprise a building containing tour floors and biaseineut. 
Tlie establishment is fitted up tastefully and provided with every 
convenience for the successful carrying on of the heavy and im- 
portant trade ot the house. A splendid stock is carried, and it 
embraces everything the retail grocer needs to keep in stock, 
from clothes pins and soap to the finest grades of teas and coffees, 
of which a specialty is ni.ade. The trade is exclusively wholesale 
and extends to all parts of New England. The proptietors are 
members ot the Wholes.ale Grocers' Association, .and their rank 
and reputation in the trade are Al. Tliey have increased their 
importing department the last tew years, and have connections 
with a large number of foreign houses. 

FRED H. HAINES, Jeweler and Optician, No. 3 Leveret 
Street.— One ot the most expert and reliable jewelers and 
opticians in this part ot the city is Fred H. Haines. Mr. 
Haines, who is a n.ative of Boston, is a thoroughly practical 
and skilful workman, ot fifteen years' experience in his profession, 
and is a complete master ot his art in all its branches. He started 
in business on his own account about five years ago, and from 
the first he has enjoyed a very fl.attering patron.age. He keeps 
constantly on hand a full and fine assortment ot watches of all 
kinds, clocks, jewelry in quite a variety, solid silver and plate- 
w.are, art novelties, opeia, field and marine ghasses, spectacles, eye 
glasses and optical goods of every description, particular atten- 
tion being givento adjusting watches; French clocks, jewelry, etc., 
are repaired in the very best style of the art, all work e-\e 
cuted in this establishment being fully warranted to render satis- 
faction. Only first-class goods are handled, and patrons can rely 
upon getting a veiy superior article, prompt and polite attention 
and satisfactory treatment in every instance, while the very 
lowest prices consistent with honest value and straight-forward 
dealing at all times prevail. 

CALL & CARLTON, Wholes.ale and Retail Dealers in Butter, 
Cheese and Eggs, No. 991 Washington Street. — An enterpris- 
ing house in the butter, cheese and egg business, is that 
of Call & Carlton, the individual partners ot which are H. 
A. Call and A. G. Carlton respectively. This young firm began 
business in June, 1888, both partners having h.ad .an extensive ex- 
perience in the line as clerks with one of the leading establish- 
ments in the city. They occupy .an attractive store, 12x40 feet in 
dimensions, and fitted up in a superior manner with marble slabs, 
etc., and hardwood finish ot the best kind. Messrs. Call & Carlton 
are wholesale and retail dealers in butter, cheese .and eggs, which 
they receive daily fresh from consignors throughout New England. 
During the brief period since tlieir esLablisliment they h.ave built 
up a first-class trade, which requires the services of two clerks, 
while the members of the firm give themselves the closest atten- 
tion to its details. They are both youug men, and natives of the 
city. 

EDWARD L. BRAY, Patentee and Manufacturer of Bray's Pat- 
ent Balance Spring Curt.ain Fixtures, No. 122 Eliot Street.— 
This business w.as oiiginally founded by the late Mr. Ben- 
jamin Bray, in Salem, Mass., in 1854. In 1863 it was removed 
to Boston, and for the past seventeen years it has been conducted 
in the premises now occupied. The factory is efficiently equipped 
with the best mechanical facilities pertaining to the business, 
wliile from six to eight hands are afforded permanent em|)loympnt. 
Mr. Stevenson, who has managed the business for the past twenty 
years, exercises a close surveillance over all the affairs of the 
establishment and sees to it th.at the fulfillment ot orders is in 
no way unnecessarily delayed. 



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CHARLES BILLMAN, Rigger, Loft: No. 81 Commercial Street. 
—Rigging and fitting out vessels forms one of the important 
industries tliat is carried on in Boston, and among tliose ac- 
tively identified with it, there are none more thoroughly 
competent to do this l<ind of work than Mr. Charles Billman who 
has been engaged in the business for many years, and from 1860 to 
1882 was a member of the firm of Billman & Wilson, and for three 
years of Billman & Co. In 1886 he succeeded to the business and 
has since conducted it on his own account and lias become well 
known In shipping and commercial circles. A loft 25x125 feet is 
occupied at No. 81 Commercial Street, and everything in the way 
of ropes, block and tackle, is at hand and in the busy season a 
large force of practical workmen are employed. Mr. Billman 
furnishes everything required in rigging ocean, bay and river 
craft, and also fishing vessels, and is particularly expert in rigging 
yachts which with him is a special business and in his time has 
rigged some of the fastest boats belonging to the clubs and indi- 
viduals along the Atlantic coast. He also furnishes rigging and 
blocks and tackle, and derricks for builders' uses and for lifting 
and moving heavy and bulky machinery, buildings, stone, etc. 
Mr. Billman, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, came to this 
country in 1817 and since 1854 has lived in Boston. 

BB. RUSSELL, Publisher of Subscription Books, Maps, 
Charts and Engravings, No. 57 Cornhill Street.— This gen- 
j tieman has been engaged In this business for a period of 
twenty-three years, and enjoys a national reputation as a 
prominent educator of the public. He brings to bear the widest 
range of practical knowledge, while by far the most worthy and 
valuable books, maps, charts and engravings are published by him 
of any subscription house extant. He makes a leading specialty 
of religious and historical works, by the best authors. He always 
Is enabled to furnish plenty of work to good agents, supplies them 
with an outfit at very small expense, and pays them liberally and 
promptly for their services. His stock of books gives the widest 
range for selection, and the agent who handles these publications 
will never want for aid and encouragement from the hands of 
lovers of good literature or from Cliristian people anywhere. The 
name of B. B. Russell is a talisman of good luck to the canvasser, 
insuring him good returns and the gratitude of tliose who buy 
from his stock. Agents and traveling men will do well to commu- 
nicate with this old-established and ever-reliable house. Mr. Rus- 
sell is a native of Maine, a business man of Boston for thirty-eight 
years, and a reputable member of social and literary circles. 

EDWARD W. LUNDAHL, Photographic Printer, No. 363 Wash- 
ington Street.— Among tliose who devote their attention to 
photography, there are perhaps none better known than 
Mr. Edward W. Lundahl. He is a thorough master of 
all the details of the profession and is recognized as one of the 
most careful and coriect printers in the business, and is perfectly 
equipped for executing the very highest class of work. His ser- 
vices are constantly in demand by photographers by whom he is 
considered one of the best in his special department of the art, and 
he is also eagerly sought after by amateurs who are well aware he 
can bring out their work and make it as perfect as it is possible to 
be done, and he is always actively engaged in printing portraits, 
groups, views, scenes, and commercial photography, and amateur 
work which he executes unexcelled in quality or permanence, Mr. 
Lundahl is a native of Sweden. He keeps five competent assist- 
ants in his employ and as he is provided with every convenience 
for printing and finishing photographic work, he can always guar- 
antee to give perfect satisfaction. 

NR. VARNEY, Watchmaker, No. 73 Hanover Street.— Mr. 
N. R. Varney the well-known watchmaker has had an ex- 
j perience extending over thirty-five years, twenty of which 
were with the Waltham Watcli Co. For ten years he was 
employed in the springing and setting up department, and for four 
years at matching and adjusting the escapement and also assisted 
In perfecting the pendant set watch and case. He has not only 
had a varied experience in factory work, but has also devoted many 
years to general repairing and is pronounced by all who have 
availed themselves of his services one of the most accurate and best 
lo the city. He can make any new parts of a watch and is practi. 



cally proficient in making repairs, and regulating watches and 
chronometers, and as an evidence of his skill and ability it is only 
necessary to state tliat he is highly endorsed and recommended by 
the following well-known gentlemen, who are prominent and well- 
known in this vicinity: Morrill Bros. & Co., No. 403 Washington 
Street, Boston; Hon. Henry N. Fisher, foreman escapementdepart- 
ment, James N. Hammond, foreman repairing department, and C. 
V. Woerd, late superintendent, American Watch Co., Waltham, 
Mass; and A. I. fyOgan, hair spring manufacturer, Waltham, Mass. 
He is also endorsed by the trade and duringthe past two years, the 
time he has been established on his own account, his business has 
steadily grown. Mr. Varney is from New Hampshire originally, 
and is very popular in this community and enjoys the esteem and 
confldeuee of the trade. 

CSOWDEN, Signs and Show Cards, No. 118 Washington Street. 
—For variety and originality of design in signs and show 
^ cards, or fine workmanship and finish, probably none in 
this business in Boston excels Mr. Sowden, who is a 
practical and expert workman himself of many years' experience, 
and is a thorough master of his art in all its branches. He has been 
In business on his own account at the present location since 1873, 
and has acquired a good patronage. Mr. Sowden occupies ample 
and well equipped quarters here, and employs a competent as- 
sistant. He is prepared to furnish signs and makes a specialty of 
plain and fancy show cards to order in the most prompt and su- 
perior manner, keeping constantly on hand also a flrst-class as- 
sortment of everything in this line, while lettering is done on tin, 
wood, doors, posts, etc., in the best style of the art at short notice, 
all work executed by this gentleman being fully warranted in 
every particular. 

FtED E. HALLETT, Commission Merchant In Fruits and Veg- 
etables, No. 106 Clinton Street.— One of the best known houses 
engaged in handling fruits and vegetables in the city is that 
of Mr. Fred. E. Hallett. Mr. Hallett has been in the business 
for a number of years, having opened his present establishment 
in 1878. He has occupied the stall at No. 106 Clinton Street, during 
this period and carries a fine stock of foreign and domestic fruits 
of all kinds in season, as well as a first supply of veget,ibles which 
he receives fresh daily. He established the best connections with 
shippers and is enabled to supply the largest orders on the shortest 
notice and at rates which place his house on a footing in this 
respect with the largest houses in tlie city. Mr. Hallet has built a 
flourishing trade all over Boston and the vicinity and has an assis- 
tant employed in his store. He was born in Chempville and has 
lived in Boston for the past nine years. 

FF. STOCKWELL, Engraver, No. 99 Court Street.— Mr. F. F. 
Stockwell in his special department of metal engraving, 
has achieved a high reput.ation and produces work bear- 
ing the impress of a master-hand. He has been estab- 
lished in the business twenty three years, and in his specialty of 
clioice work in monograms, letters, names and ornamental work 
has no successful compeer. His work is executed with neatness 
and will bear the closest examination and inspection. Jewelry 
and silver plate is engraved to order, also name plates, numbers, 
metal signs, etc., and he is well equipped for doing all kinds of 
work in his special department of the art. He Is a native of Wor- 
cester County. Mass., and learned his trade in Boston, where he 
has resided many years, and is one of the leading artists in his 
line in the city. 

CAMPBELL BROTHERS, Loan Brokers, No. 699 W.ashington 
Street.— The business in which the Campbell Brothers is en- 
gaged is a great convenience to the citizens and business 
men. They are gentleman of large means and have a wide 
acquaintance among capitalists and negotiate loans on personal 
property of every description and merchandise, and all articles of 
value. The proprietors, Mr. C. N. and .1. W. Campbell are from 
Minnesota originally, where for some years Mr. C. N. Campbel) 
was engaged in the banking business, and his brother was engaged 
ill the grocery trade. Both are well qualified toconductoperations 
as loan brokers. A handsome offlce is occupied where they may 
be consulted daily, between the hours of niue a. m. and five p. m. 



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RM. YALE & CO., Sail Makers, Etc., No. 29 South Market 
Street.— One ot the most reliable and old established 
, houses In Boston engaged in sail making, etc.. Is that of 
Messrs. R. M. Yale & Co., which was established in 1847, 
by Mr. R. M. Yale, who is sole proprietor. Mr. Yale has had great 
experience as a sail maker, and his patron- 
age is by no means confined to the United 
States, but extends to the British Provinces 
and Upper Canada. Ue occupies two com- 
modious and well equipped tioors, and man- 
ufactures largely Italian awnings, tents, 
flags, wagon coverings, sackings, and store 
awnings of every description. Mr. Yale 
makes a specialty ot yacht flags, and also 
supplies promptly canopies for weddings, 
reception parties, etc. An excellent assort- 
ment of awning stripes of various patterns 
are kept constantly on hand, and all orders 
are carefully attended to at extremely 
moderate prices. Mr. Yale keeps in stock 
a large number of tents of all sizes and flags of all nations, which 
are let upon reasonable terms. All awnings and other goods man- 
ufactured by Mr. Yale are made of tlie best materials and are un- 
rivalled for finish and workmanship. Mr Yale was born in Maine, 
but has resided in Boston tlie greater part of his life. He is one of 
the original members ot tlie Boston Yacht Club, which was founded 
in 1866, and has been a member of the Ancient and flonorable Ar- 
tillery Company of Boston, and of the Mechanics' Association for 
the last thirty years. 

NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE EXCHANGE, Special Credit 
Invesitgations; Albert T. Knapp, Manager: Boston Office: 
No. 174 Hanover Street.— Special reference is made to the 
reliable and trustworthy New England Furniture Ex. 
change, whose Boston oftice, under the able and careful manage- 
ment of Mr. Albert T. Knapp, Is located at No. 174 Hanover Street. 
The headqiuirters of this company are situated in New York City 
at No. 62 Bowery. Tlie New England branch was organized In 1874 
and Incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts In 1879. This 
company makes special credit investigations in the furniture, car- 
pet, upholstery, wall paper, window shade, glass, picture frame, 
undertaking and cabinet wood trades— and guarantee promptness 
and reliability in credits and collections. Members and their .agents 
can use all of the Lyon Associations tor credit reports ana legal 
advice. The Lyon Reference Book is the acknowledged standard 
register of these special tr.ades. It gives all the dealers' n.-imes, 
adresses .and credit ratings. Issued every January and July. 
(Adopted and revised by the official Furniture Trade Associ.ations.) 
This book also gives the railroad, bank, express company and popu- 
lation of each town. Lyon's Furniture Report— issued to members 
every week, gives all the business andcreditclianges, corrections, 
warnings and notifications; also all the mortgages, judgments, 
attachments, conveyances, assignments, etc. in these tr.ades 
throughout the United States. Lyon s Detailed Credit Reports- 
furnished to members on application, regarding the standing of 
any parties engaged in these trades,— or in any other trades when 
required. The Lyon reports are noted for their thoroughness, 
detail and reliability. Special cautionary or daily reports are like- 
wise furnished confidentially with a list of such persons, whom 
members desire to have closely watched,— any necessary informa- 
tion affecting their credit is at once forwarded to members or 
their agents. Yearly membership dues with reference books and 
all privileges .are only $.50 per annum. 

BOSTON PLATING COMPANY, No. 90 Sudbury Street, Room 2. 
—One .among the best known concerns in this city doing an 
extensive business in gold silver and nickel plating is the 
Boston Phating Company. The found.ation ot the business 
dates from 1879 when it was established by W. S. Burton who was 
succeeded by W. H. Fisher. In May last the present company 
was formed with Mr. A, N. Smith president and Mr. G. F. Knight 
manager, and from tliat time It has been vigorously prosecuted 
and the trade extended. The premises occupied for the purposes 
of the business are on the second floor and liave dimensions of 25x 
40 feet. Steam power Is used and the equipment in every respect 



is perfect and complete for executing the very best class of work 
with promptness and dispatch. Plating Is done to order for the 
trade and also oxydizing, particular attention being given to 
watch cases and jewelry and also railroad and to carriage trim- 
mings, saddlery liardware, etc., and also to repairing and replat- 
Ing old ware, knives, forks, etc. This is tlie best fitted up shop for 
railroad work such as headlights, car trimmings, etc., the company 
doing a large business for the different railroiids. The work exe- 
cuted by the company is warranted and every confidence can be 
pliicedon its giving satisf.action. Mr. Smith the president of the 
company lives at North Adams. Mr. Knight tlie manager who has 
charge of the business is a practical man to the trade. He was born 
In Cambrldgeport where he resides. The company is doing a large 
business and Is prepared to execute work in any quantity and 
orders by mail or express receive strict attention. 

BF. BRADBURY. Pharmacist, No. 443 Washington Street.— 
In elegance, reliability and extent ot tr.ade tlie pharmacy 
J of Mr. B. F. Briidbury, occupies a le.adiiig position In Bos- 
ton. The proprietor first establislied himself as a pharma- 
cist in 1856, in Bangor, Me., and came to Boston in 1872, and pur- 
chased the present business which had been in operation since 
1820. The career of the house had been prosperous and successful 
from the start, and under the present enterprising and eBBcieut 
management the volume of transactions has been greatly aug- 
mented. The store is directly central to the best business portion 
of the city, Is spacious in size, and all its appointments are hand- 
some, attractive an.l appropriate, no p,ains or expense being spared 
to make it as complete as possible in its every feature. A very 
large stock is carried of pure drugs, chemicals, ph.arniaceutlcal 
preparations, essences and extracts, wines and liquors for me- 
dicinal purposes, toilet and fancy goods, druggists' sundries of all 
kinds, and, in fact, everything kept In a Hrst-cliiss establishment 
devoted to this trade. The proprietor makes his purchases from 
the most reputable sources. The prescription department is care 
fully and intelligently directed. It Is in charge of experienced 
compounders, and the limit of precision and safety is reached in 
every case. Patrons are waited upon promptly and courteously, 
and the prices which prevail are eminently low and attractive. 
Mr. Bradbury is a native of Maine, and is highly regarded in the 
community as .an accomplished pharmacist. 

HH. WOOLSON, Tailor, No. 433 Washington Street.— The 
merchant tailoring trade has many able representatives 
J in Boston, but probably none are coming f.astcr into 
prominence for flue work than the gentleman wliose 
name appears In the caption of this article. Mr. H. H. Woolson 
Is a native of New Hampshire and very early .acquired an expert 
knowledge of his trade. He subsequently came to Boston and for a 
number of years filled the responsible position of cutter in the well 
known house of Kobbins& Rowell, and while there employed built 
up an enviable reputation for superior work. In March, 1888, he em- 
barked for himself in the enterprise with which he is rapidly 
becoming both popularly and prosperously identlfled. His tasty 
and convenient salesroom contains a choice selection of the finest 
of imported goods only, which are made up by the most skillful 
workmen obtainable Mr. Woolson counts among his constantly 
growing patroniige many of the leading society and business men 
of Boston and he Is generally regarded as one of the ablest city 
tailors. 

DS. BANKS. Tea Broker, No. 24^ Central Street.— A tea 
house that has been established for close upon a quarter 
J of a century is that of Mr. D. S. Banks, tea broker, who is 
one of Boston's oldest and best known business men. 
Tills gentleman was born In Maine. He embarked in his present 
line of business in 1864, and for the past ten years h,as occupied 
his present office and he controls a large tr.ade. During all these 
years Mr. Bank's career has been a progressive and successful one, 
and he has earned a reptutation for fairand honorable dealing and 
for handling first-class, reliable goods that he may justly be proud 
of. Mr. Banks represents some of the largest tea importing houses 
in New York, and sells directly to wholesale houses all over New 
England. His facilities for filling orders promptly and to the en- 
tire s.atisfactlon of .all concerned are of the most ample character. 



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EL. ATWOOD, Teas, CofEees, Groceries and Sliip Stores, Nos. 
153 Hanover and 118 Blackstone Streets.— A representative 
^ house, and one of tlie oldest in this section o£ the city, in 
its line is that conducted by Mr. E. L. Atwood. This time- 
honored and popular establishment was founded as far back as 
l&'K under the style of Messrs. L. R. Crosby & Co., of which firm 
E. L. Atwood was a member and one of the founders. Tlie part- 
nership between Mr. L. R. Crosby and Mr. Atwood subsisted for the 
long period of forty-four years. In 187G Mr. Atwood became the 
sole proprietor of the business with which he has now been identi- 
fied for fifty-six years. He is to-day probably the oldest merchant 
still actively engaged in business on the street. His enterprise 
has about it all the evidences of youthful vigor and push, and is 
kept abreast with the age in the introduction of all the novelties 
and attractions which cliaracterize the most modern and first-class 
grocery houses of New England's metropolis. The store has an 
area of 35x50 feet, and a basement of equal dimensions is occupied 
In connection with the business. A heavy stock of teas, coffees, 
staple and fancy groceries, ship stores of all kinds and grocers' 
sundries of every description is constantly carried, and the large 
business done requires the permanent services of from four to five 
assistants. Mr. Atwood is a native of Welltleet, Cape Cod. 

HARRIS STAHL, Manufacturer of fine Havana Cigars, Whole- 
sale and Retail. No. 47 Green Street.— One o£ the most pop- 
ular and excellent cigar stores in this quarter of the city, is 
the well and favor.ably known establishment of Harris 
Stahl, manufacturer of tine havana cigars. The goods produced 
•lere are of a very superior character, alike as to quality, flavor and 
make, .and as a consequence they have gained a firm hold on popu- 
lar favor throughout Boston and environs, and also outside the 
state. This thriving business was established in 1877 >as a retail 
smokers' emporium, the manuf.actnring and wholesale department 
being added about three years ago, and from the first Mr. Stahl has 
enjoyed quite a liberal patronage. The store is compact, neat and 
well kept, while several expert cigar makers are employed in the 
shop, the favorite brand Bay State turned out here being an article 
of exceptional merit. A large and first-class assortment is con- 
stantly carried on hand including besides Mr. Stahl'sown products, 
also choice imported and domestic cigars, all tlie favorite brands 
of cigarettes, smoking and chewing tobaccos, snuff, pipes and 
everything in the line of smokers' articles, and also makes a 
specialty of handling private brands and offers special inducements 
to patrons purchasing for cash, the trade of the conceru, both 
wholesale and retail, afford evidence of steady increase. 

JOSEPH MEASURES, Brass Founder, No. 39 Pitts Street.— A 
well known and prominent est.ablishment engaged in this 
line of industry is that conducted by Mr. Joseph Measures. 
Mr. Measures was born in this city, and has long been iden- 
tified with the brass trade, in which he is an acknowledged expert. 
The business was founded originally in 1877, and from the outset tlie 
proprietor hivs always had a large and influential trade. Until June 
1st, 1888, the enterprise was conducted at No. 141 Portland Street, 
whence It was transferred to its present location. The foundry com- 
prises the whole of the lower floor of the building, which has a ca- 
pacity of 100x35 feet. The entire establishment is thoroughly equip- 
ped with all the newest and most improved machinery, which is 
operated by ste.am power, while constant employment is afforded to 
a large force of skilled and efficient workm.an. Mr.Me.asuresmanu- 
lactures a large and comprehensive line of brass work, and all kinds 
of composition, brass, German silver and zinc castings ; also cop- 
per castings for electric light work, lining metal, etc. He is pre- 
pared to execute all kinds of work in these lines with promptitude, 
and he justly prides himself upon the accur.acy and superior ex- 
cellence of all the work eman.iting from his establishment. Esti- 
mates are duly furnished, contracts entered into and executed in 
the most satisfactory manner. 

KOSCHWITZ & CO., Lithographic Engravers and Printers, 
No. 76 State Street.— The art of lithography has been de- 
veloped to a high plane of perfection. A leading member 
of the calling is Mr. T. Koschvvitz, tlie. active member of 
the firm of Koschwitz & Co. This gentleman established his busi- 
ness here four years ago, and through the thorough knowledge 



which he possesses of his vocation, has since built up a large and 
influential patronage, derived from the leading business men in 
the central part of tlie city, and has won a reputation of the most 
enviable character for the superiority of his work. The commodi- 
ous premises occupied are equipped in tlie most complete manner, 
being provided with four fine lithographic presses, and all neces- 
sary appliances used in this branch of industry. Mr. Koschwitz 
attends personally to the management of his establishment, em- 
ploys none but competent workmen, and is prepared to execute 
lithograpliy and lithographic printing in all their branches. He 
makes a leading specialty of commercial work of all kinds, per- 
forming the finest and most delicate operations in this line in a 
manner that never fails to gain the fullest appreciation. AUorder.s 
are promptly executed and at the most reasonable prices. Mr. 
Koschwitz, who is a native of Germany, has resided in the United 
States since 1865. 

CR. MUGRIDGE, Carpenter, No. 128K Cambridge Street.— 
Mr. C. R. Mugridge is a practical carpenter of large ex- 
j perience and established reputation, and as such carries 
on an extensive jobbing trade both in the city and its vi- 
cinity. Mr. Mugridge was born and reared in Maine, where he 
learned his trade, with which he has been Identified for nearly a 
quarter of a century. Nine years ago he removed to Boston, and 
in 1884 started business on his own account at No. 33 Endicott 
Street, whence he removed to his present central location. Here 
he has a well equipped workshop, equipped with all necessary 
tools and appliances for the successful prosecution of the business. 
Every description of carpenter work is carefully executed and in 
a thoroughly workmanlike manner. Special attention is given to 
the altering and fitting up of stores, offices, etc., and to jabbingof 
every description. From one to eleven hands are employed, ac- 
cording to tlie nature of the work in operation, and Mr. Mug- 
ridge exercises a close surveillance over the execution of all work 
entrusted to him. He has earned the reputation of being a 
first-class workman, of honestly fulfilling all his obligations. 

HW.PINKHAM, Choice Provisions, Etc., Pinkhani's Mar- 
ket, No 280 Tremout Street.— Among the well-conducted 
and deservedly popular local establishments in the pro- 
vision trade should be mentioned that of Mr. H. W. 
Pinkham— famili.arly known as " Pinkhani's Market." The spa- 
cious and well arranged market is attractively fitted up in hard- 
woods, and every facility is at hand for the advantageous handling 
and display of goods. Here is at all times to be found a full and 
complete stock of choice beef, lamb, mutton, pork, lard, poultry, 
game, vegetables, etc. ; also, fresh-laid eggs and flue creamery 
and dairy butter. These goods are carefully selected from the 
most reputable sources of supply, with due regard for the require- 
ments of the high-class family and hotel trade from which the 
large patronage is chiefly drawn. Employment is given to four 
experienced assistants besides the proprietor. Mr. Pinkham has 
been engaged in his present enterprise since 1881, and in the inter- 
val has reared a business which entitles him to classification 
among the representative young merchants in his line, of this, his 
native town. 

A J. LOVELL, Grocer and Tea Dealer, Nos. fi2 and 64 Cam- 
bridge Street.— Cue of the principal establishments in the 
West End engaged in the grocery trade.and which has for 
many years occupied a foremost position in the favor of 
the public, is that of Mr. A. J. Lovell. The house was first opened 
in 1800 by the present proprietor. The spacious store occupied has 
a frontage of 30 feet and a depth of 100 feet. Its interior is ar- 
ranged in the most cimvenient and systematic manner, every .ap- 
pliance oraccommodiition peculiar to the business being provided. 
The heavy stock carried embraces a complete line of staple and 
fancy groceries of every description, including the choicest teas, 
coffees and spices, canned and bottled, in immense variety, bak- 
ing and laundry supplies, and fruits and vegetables. The custom 
supplied extends to the surrounding neighborhoods and the sub- 
urban towns. A full staff of clerks and assistants is employed, 
and all orders invari.ably meet with the same prompt and satis- 
factory fulfillment. Mr. Lovell is a native of this state, having 
been born in West Boylston. 



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JOHN R. FAEEELL, Tailor, No. 765 Washington Street.— Mr. 
Jolin E. Farrell is oneof the oldest and best Itnown tailors 
in the city, and lias long been recognized as a tower of 
strength in the trade. Establishing his business forty years 
ago, in Boylston Hall, he has by his enterprise, liberality and 
splendid acquirements in his profession, built up a large, flrst-class 
and permanent patronage in this city .and throughoutthe country. 
His business premises have been occupied by him since July. 1887, 
and includes .an elegant and sp.acious salesroom, 30 by 112 feet in 
size, liandsoinely fitted up and perfect in convenience of arrange- 
ment for Inspection and sale. Here is exhibited the largest and 
finest stock of cloths and trimmings ever brought to this city. It 
is complete in material, design and novelty, giving tlie limit of 
manufacture in high-class goods, and the very best sources of 
American and European production have contributed to its wealth. 
Mr. Farrell devotes his time and talents to fine custom clothing, 
ma1<ing a leading specialty of military work, and the garments 
here m.ade are recognized as simply perfection in style, fit and ar- 
tistic workm.anship. He makes all the uniforms for the high 
schools of Boston, while to be found among his permanent custom- 
ers are very many of tlie best dressed citizens of this city and its 
suburban towns Unusually line facilities are afforded for guaran- 
teeing the prompt and satisfactory fulhilincntof all orders, includ- 
ing a large force of skilled workmen and an e.\perienced and ar- 
tistic cutter, while prices are placed at the lowest ligure consis- 
tent with first-class service. Mr. Farrel is one of Boston's most 
prominent and successful business men. Heh.as served his fellow- 
citizens as a member of the State Legislature for several terms, 
was Captain of Co G, ■(8th Massachusetts Infantry during the war, 
and organized the Ninth Eegiment, M. V. M., of which he was 
commissioned Lieuten.int Colonel, after having recruited Company 
A, which was the nucleus of the regiment. 

WH. WHITE, Jr. & CO., Dealers in Boots and Shoes, No. 
100 Court Street.— The business was established .some 
^ twenty years ago, and came into the control of the 
present owners in 1883. Under their vigorous, ener- 
getic management tlie enterprise has flourished and the trade de- 
veloped to e.\tensive proportions, the patronage being derived from 
all parts of the city and tiie surrounding towns, Tlie store occu- 
pied is amply spacious, and is well furnished and attractively lifted 
up for the convenience of a large trade, and the accommodation 
and display of an extensive stock of toods. The assortment of 
boots, shoes, slippers and rubbers is one of the finest as well as 
most complete to be found in the city, embracing, as it does, tlie 
latest and most desirable styles of foot wear A st.aft of polite 
clerks are employed and customers are waited upon promptly and 
shown every courteous attention. The goods are all guaranteed 
to be as repre.sented. while the prices are unquestionably of Ihe 
most reasonable character. The members of the firm, Messrs. W. 
H. White, Jr., and G. P. Soule, the former a native of Boston, the 
latter of Maine, are business men of thorough experience and of 
excellent standing in commercial circles, and are thoroughly de- 
serving of their popularity. 

DMcELWIN, Turning and Band Sawing, M.annfacturer of 
Show Cases, Parlor Furniture, odd pieces, and General 
, Jobbing. No. 37 Haverhill Street.— Among the enterpn.ses 
meriting mention is that prosecuted by Mr D McElwin 
who has had some twenty years' experience in wood turning and 
band sawing, ,and in the manufacture of show cases, parlor furni- 
ture and odd pieces of artistic furniture. For five years he h.as 
been in business at his present location, and controls a trade that 
Is not only extensive, but infliientiiil His premises comprise the 
second and tliird floors of the building, and e.ach are 20x40 feet in 
dimensions, equipped with steam power and the most etticient 
modern wood-working machinery. Six skilled and experienced 
artisans are employed and all orders are filled with promptness. 
Mr. McElwin has always on hand a very fine assortment of show 
cases of all sizes and forms and choice specimens of artistic parlor 
furniture A specialty is made of the ni.nnufacture of odd pieces 
and of general Jobbing. While Mr. Elwin does not conduct his 
business on as large a scale as some concerns that we could name, 
we know of none that can surpass his work in point of quality. He 
Is a native of Boston and resides .at Charlestown. 



ALBEE, BEOWN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces, Ship Stoves, Etc., No. 63 
Blackstone Street.— One among the oldest of the well 
known bouses in the stove trade in Boston is that of the 
firm of Albee, Brown & Co. It w.as establislied as long ago as 1843 
by J. M. Reed. About a year ago Messrs. Albee, Brown & Co., 
succeeded Mr. Eeed and continued the business until a few months 
ago, when Mr. Brown retired .and Mr. Albee has since continued it 
under the old firm name. The premises which have an area of 25x 
60 feet, are admirably arranged and contain a large and varied as- 
sortment of all kinds of stoves, ranges and furnaces in al tlie new 
styles, containing the latest iinproveinents, also ship stoves, which 
form a special feature of the stock. All kinds of sheet iron work 
is done to order, and gencr.al jobbing and repairing receives th,at 
attention its importance demands. Cooking and heating stoves 
and sliip stoves are put up, and Cabooses lined with tin or slieet 
iron and ranges are set, cleaned and repaired by coinpetent work- 
men, under the immediate supervision of Mr. Harry L. Albee, the 
proprietor, wlio is a pr.actical workman himself. A large city and 
suburban, anda trade with the shipping is carried on, and the busi- 
ness is conducted in an able, efticient manner. Born in Hopkinton, 
in this state, Mr. Albee who for many years had lived in Boston, 
is well known and popular. 



M. 



FELONSKY, Dry and F.ancy Goods, Etc., No. 23 Cam- 
bridge Street. — Among the most popular and prosperous 
mercantile establishment that have come into existence 
of recent years in this vicinity may be mentioned the 
thriving and well stocked emporium of M. Pelonsky, dealer in dry 
and fancy goods, ladies' wear and men's and boys' clothing. This 
business w.as established abcmt three years ago, and from the 
start Mr. Pelonsky has steadily pushed his way to public favor and 
patronage. The premises occupied include a commodious store 
and basement, and an extensive .and varied assortment is con- 
stantly carried, comprising fine dress fabrics and trimmings, silks, 
shawls, cloaks and millinery in quite a variety, novelties in under- 
wear, corsets, gloves, hosiery, notions, umbrellas and everything 
in the line of fancy goods; also staple dry goods, calicoes, cottons, 
ginghams, flannels, sheetings, towelings and domestics. The stock 
also includes a full line of mens' and boy's clothing, shirts, sus- 
penders, neckwear, etc., while five eflicient assistants are in at- 
tendance, no pains being spared to render the fullest satisfactiOD 
in every instance to patrons. 

JAMES M. KNAPP. Machine and Tool Forging, No. 12Bowker 
Street.— The enterprise of Mr. James M. Knapp, the well 
known machine and tool forger, has been in successful op- 
eration since J.anuary, 1887, and has become celebrated not 
only in this city but in the vicinity, while the substantial and in- 
fluential patronage it enjoys is the strongest possible evidence 
that the work turned out is of no ordinary grade of excellence. 
The workshop has a capacity of 25x40 feet, is finely equipped with 
forges, machinery, steam power and all other necessary acces- 
sories for conducting the business economically and satisfactorily. 
All kinds of machine blacksmithing and general job work are 
given prompt attention, tools of every description and for every 
conceivable use .are made to order, and a specialty is niiideof steel 
forging. Mr. Knapp is a practical man at his trade, and a patron 
can always rely upon having his instructions carried out in the 
most minute detail. Mr. Knapp is a native of Maine, and his busi- 
ness success is fully deserved. 

BAEBER BROS., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Cigars, To- 
b.acco. Cigarettes, and Smokers' Articles, No. 15 Green 
Street.— This pushing and popular firm was established in 
June last, and .at its very inception may be said to have 
fairly bounded into prominence and prosperity. The firm occupy 
commodious and neatly .appointed quarters, and carry constantly 
on hand an extensive and first-cl.ass assortment, which includes 
finest and medium grades of imported and domestic cigars, all the 
favorite br<ands of cigarettes, smoking and chewing tobaccos of 
every description, snuff, pipes in great variety, and everytliing 
comprehended in smokers' articles; while the trade, botli in the 
wholesale and retail departments, gives evidence of steady and 
substantial increase. 



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A A. ROWE ct SON, Forwarding Agents and Truckmen, 
No. 31 India Wharf.— In every great commercial com- 
^ niunity forwarding agents and truckmen necessarily 
fill a very useful and important position, and their 
duties invariably are of a very onerous and responsible char- 
acter. It is essential to success that they be men of the highest 
repute and intelligence, and prompt in the carrying out of all 
orders. These are the characteristics of the members of the firm 
of A. A. Kowe & Son, the well-known and popular forwarding 
agents and truckmen, of No. 31 India Wharf. The business of this 
concern was organized in 1868 by the senior member of the firm, 
who quickly secured a very flattering patronage, which has been 
increasing year by year. Mr. A. A. Rowe, who is a native of New 
York State, has resided in Boston, for upwards of twenty-three 
years, and in 1887 admitted into partnership his son, Mr. A. H. 
Rowe, who was reared in tlie business. The lirni have a neat, well 
appointed office, and this is connected by telephone. They have 
fifteen hands and sixteen horses in constant service, and undertake 
the removal of all kinds of merchandise from and to any places de- 
sired, and they receive and forward goods of all kinds to any and 
all points at reasonable rates. Promptitude and efticiency of 
service to all patrons is the ruling principle upon which this firm 
conducts its business, and immediate attention is accordingly 
given to all orders. The firm have a large, vigorous, growing 
trade, and the standing of Messrs. A. A. Kowe & Son in the mer- 
cantile community is one of the highest. 

TtlOMAS G. SNOW, Dealer in Specialties, and Manufacturer 
of Commonwealth Salad Cream, Etc., No. 130 Commercial 
Street.— The steady and increasing demand that has devel- 
oped of late years in this country for choice grades of table 
delicacies and condiments, such as dressing for cold meats, fish 
and salads of all kinds, has resulted in very notable improvement. 
For purity, flavor and general excellence, none produced in this 
section of the country compares with the delicious and wholesome 
Commonwealth Salad Cream, manufactured by Thomas G. Snow. 
This is an article of exceptional merit, and has secured an endur- 
ing hold on popular favor, as also has the Hub Mustard Dressing, 
which Is noted for its superior quality, and which for the purposes 
intended— fish, game, roast meat, steaks, chops and made dishes- 
is unsurpassed. Besides the manufacture of the Commonwealth 
Salad Cream and the Hub mustard dressing, Mr. Snow deals ex- 
tensively also in sauces, catsups, preserves, flavoring extracts, 
essences, condiments and grocers, specialties, and is well and fav- 
orably known in the trade. Mr. Snow, who is a young man of push 
and enterprise, started in business in 18T7, as a de.iler in grocers' 
sundries, and conmienced the manufacturing of the Common- 
wealth Salad Cream and the Hub Mustard Dressing about three 
years ago. He occupies for business purposes two commodious 
floors, and carries constantly on hand a large, first-class stock, 
while half a dozen in help are employed, besides several traveling 
salesmen, and the trade of the concern, which is very active, ex- 
tends throughout the whole of the United States. 

MCANTWELL, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter, No. 69 
Pitts Street.— A prominent and most reliable house en- 
j gaged in this business in this section of the city, is that 
of Mr. M, Cantwell. It was founded in 1875 by the pre- 
sent proprietor, who has gained an excellent reputation for first- 
class work. The premises occupied are of spacious dimensions, 
and comprise a store with work-shop attached, in which six skilled 
and competent workmen are constantly employed. The store is 
ne.atly and tastefully fitted up, and contains a fine assortment of 
all kinds of plumbers' supplies, such as bath tubs, faucets, urinals, 
closets, wash-bowls, lead, iron and earthenware drain pipes, gas 
fixtures, chandeliers, brackets, and, in fact everything pertaining 
to all branches of the business. Mr.Cantwell is prepared to fur- 
nish estimates and enter into contracts of any magnitude for the 
plumbing, ventilating, lighting and heating of public buildings la 
this city and vicinity, and, beluga practical man, one of the great- 
est advantages about his work is that, when once completed, it 
will remain perfect for years. Mr. Cantwell makes a specialty of 
sanitary plumbing and of the ventilation of dwelling houses in 
which line he is an expert. He is a native of Ireland and has re- 
sided in Boston for the past twenty years. 



GEO. E. HAYDEN, Costumer, No. 725 Washington Street.— This 
business was established in 1873by Mr. Hayden, who was 
originally an actor. He occupies the second floor 30x112 feet 
in area, which is elegantly fitted up and fully stocked with 
a splendid assortment of theatrical goods, society regalia, wigs, 
beards, dress suits, reception dresses, play books, standard plays, 
also with uniforms and lodge supplies. He likewise keeps in stock 
Chas. Meyer's paints, powders and cosmetics and all articles and 
specialties for making up the face. Mr. Hayden is recognized 
authority on all matters pertaining to theatrical costumes, society 
regalia, etc., and his goods without exception are quite equal to 
the best productions of famous costumers in London, Paris or New 
York, while his prices in all cases are exceedingly moderate. All 
orders are promptly and carefully filled, and the trade of the house 
now extends throughout the principal cities and towns of New 
England and New York. Mr. Hayden is a native of Stoughton, 
Mivss., but lived the middle years of his life in the soutli. He is 
highly regarded in theatrical circles for his integrity, skill and en- 
terprise, and justly merits the liberal and influential patronage se- 
cured in this artistic industry. Mr. Hayden is presiding oRicer 
of the Wapiti Tribe, I O. R. M., and a prominent member oX the 
Elks, I. O. O. F., and Knights of Pythias. 

JAMES A. YOUNG, Wholesale Dealer in Lobsters, No. 76 Com- 
mercial Wharf.— An extensive and well-conducted concern in 
the lobster trade, is the well-known house of James A. 
Young, which has been identified with the business for a 
number of years, Mr. Young is a native of Boston, and enjoys a 
first-class name in the business community here. In 1868 he 
founded the house which he has since brought to so flourishing 
a condition, and has occupied his present commodious premises, 
comprising two floors, 25x50 feet in dimensions, for the past twelve 
years. Mr. Young is a wholesale dealer in lobsters of all grades, 
and puts up packages of the various sizes demanded by the 
trade, which he sells largely to local houses, as well as ships in 
extensive quantities all over Massachusetts iind New York. He 
employs three clerks in his establishment and is fast increasing 
the dimensions of his trade each year. Mr. Young is a first-class 
business man who is eminently worthy of the success he has 
achieved inliis enterprise. 

JOHN DRISCOLL, Manufacturer of Fine Cigars, No. 212 At 
lantic Avenue.— Among Boston's most active and successful 
cigar manufacturers, is Mr. John Driscoll. The premises 
occupied are roomy, and admirably adapted for the pur- 
poses to which they are devoted. They are equipped with every 
appliance and convenience for facilitating the operations of the 
business, which consists of the manufacture of the finest grades of 
cigars known to the trade. The business of this house was founded 
in 1886, under the firm style of Driscoll & Goldberg, and in the 
following year, on the retirement of Mr. Goldberg, Mr. Driscoll 
became the sole proprietor. He is a native of Ireland and has re- 
sided in the United States for the past twenty-two years. He is a 
practical cigar-maker of extended experience and is an excellent 
judge of tobaccos, the best leaf of which he selects for the pur- 
poses of his business. Constant employment is afforded to nine 
hands, and the products of the house have an extensive and 
brisk sale throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as 
they are very popular among and highly appreciated by lovers 
of the weed. The leading favorites are the D & G, five cent cigar 
and the Elcho, ten cent cigar. The business is entirely of a 
w holesale character. 

JW. SHERMAN, Stationary, Toys, Etc., No. 115 Cambridge 
Street.— The business career of this gentleman embraces a 
I period upward of thirty busy, prosperous years. He was born 
in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1824, and is a brother of the late 
General T. W. Sherman, and during his long residence in Bosion 
has won the confidence of the public and enjoyed a large profita- 
ble trade. He has always been located in the premises now occu- 
pied. The store Is neatly and tastefully arranged, and well 
stocked with a large and varied assortment of stationary and school 
supplies, blank books and periodicals, toys of all kinds, and agen- 
eral line of fancy goods for use or ornament. Mr. Slierman is well 
deserving the success which has attended his efforts. 



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CH. EUTEBROUK, Importer and Gun Maker, No. 17 Portland 
Street.— There is probably not in this entire city to-day a 
more skillful or reliable workman in his particular line 
than C. H. Eutebrouk. Mr. Eutebrouk, who is a man of 
middle age, was born in Belgium and has lived in Boston since 
1870. He is a thoroughly practical and expert gunsmith, of nearly 
forty years' experience, in his calling, and is a complete m.xster of 
the ait in all its branches. He started in business on his own ac- 
count here some ten years ago, moving to the present location in 
1884, aDd from the first he has enjoyed a very liberal share of pop- 




ular favor. Mr. Etitebrouk occupies a well-kept store and shop, 
keeping constantly on hand a complete and fine assortment of lire 
arms, .amuiunition .and kindred sporting goods.— shot guns, rifles 
and Ashing t.ackle, wliileguns are let by the diiyat fifty cents each. 
or by the week .at $2.00. Fowling pieces, rifles and guns of evei'y 
description are made to order in tlie most prompt and excellent 
manner, at lowest figures, while repairing in all its branches is 




reliably executed, at short notice; and. altogether Mr. Eutebrouk 
h.as a very nice patronage. Barrels are re-bored to shoot close and 
hard and guns are made to order from $1C0 and up. Mr. Eutebrouk 
has five patents In firearms which are valuable to sportsmen and 
gun clubs in the United .States. 

LUCIUS SLADE, Dealer in Butter. Cheese and Eggs, No. 24 
Faneuil Hall Market.— One of the oldest est.iblished and 
most enterprising firms in tliis line, is that of Mr. Lucius 
Slade. This business w.as established thirty-seven years 
ago by Slade & Rust, who continued it till 1854, when, on the re- 
tirement of Mr. Rust, Mr. Slade became sole proprietor. Mr. Slade 
occupies a commodious store iind cellar, and handles largely but- 
ter, cheese and eggs, large quantities of which are daily received 
from the best producing sections of the country. He numbers 
among his permanent customers many of the best-known shippers, 
]obbers,wholesale and retail grocers of Boston .and the neighboring 
cities. Mr. Slade handles only the clioicest and most reliable pro- 
duce. He makes liberal .advances on consignments when required 
and is noted for his promptness and accuracy when making re 
turns. Mr. Slade w.as born in New Hampshire, but has been ares 
ident of Boston for the Last forty-four years. He is a popular mem 
ber of the Produce Exchange, and was the third president of this 
Institution. Mr. Slade has also been an Alderman for eight years, 
member of the City Council, member of Massachusetts Senate and 
Boston School Board, and during tlie civil war was captain of the 
National Lancers. 



BOSTON PASTE COMPANY, Manufacturers of Noah's Patent 
Improved Machine Paste, No. 40 Beverly;Street.— The steady 
and increasing demand that has grown up in the shoe, 
book binding and paper hangingtrades for a superior grade 
of paste has, in the nature of things, resulted In marked improve- 
ment having been affected in this useful and indispensible article 
of late. For gener.il excellence, none yet offered tor sale in Bos- 
ton or the New England States compares with Noah's Patent Im- 
proved Machine Paste, manufactured by the Boston Paste Com- 
jiauy, which for more than twenty-one years has maintained an 
enduring hold on popular favor. Noah's Patent Improved Jl.a- 
chlne Paste is .an article of exceptional merit— effective, reliable 
dur.able and in all respects the most superior paste tor the pur- 
poses intended yet introduced— .and of this .assertion no belter 
criterion need be offered than the steady .and extensive sale it 
finds in the trade, not only throughout the Eastern States, but west 
as far as St. Louis. This thriving enterprise w.as started in 1867 by 
George G. Noah, after wliom the paste is named, who conducted it 
up to 1882, when he w.as succeeded by tlie present proprietors, 
Messrs I. W. Hamlin and A. C. Noali, (son of the founder,) and by 
these gentlemen the business has since been continued. They oc- 
cupy as factory and store a commodious first floor and basement, 
having in service ample steam power and complete maiiul'.acturing 
and storage facilities, while several in help are employed. They 
produce a very superior grade of paste for the use of shoe manu- 
factiirs, book-binders, paper hangers, paper box makers, etc., spec- 
ial attention being given to the manufacture of piiste of any con- 
sistency or quality, adapted to any work, and satisfaction is gu.ar- 
anteed in every instance. It is put up in barrels, halt barrels and 
kegs. 

GEO. W SMITH, Insurance Agency, Fire. Marine and Life 
Insuiiince, No. 71 Kilby Street.— A leading .agency for fire, 
marine and life insurance in this city is that conducted by 
Mr. Geo. W, Smith, wlio has been established in the business 
here since 1871. He numbers aiiumg his clientele many of thesolid 
citizens and largest propei'ty holders in tliis city mid its suburban 
towns. His standing in insurance circles is best shown by the list 
of companies whicli lie represents, including some of the foremost 
Insurance corporations in the world. Representing, as he does, 
many millions of d<dlars of assets .and resources. Mr. Smith is 
prepared to promptly place the largest risks, distributing the same 
in tlie most judicious manner, quoting the lowest rates of prem- 
ium, and guiiranteeing a speedy and liber.al adjustment of all 
losses He controls the insuring of many of the clioicest lines of 
business and residenti.al property in this city, and is deservedly 
popular with all classes of patrons, carefully guarding and intelli- 
gently promoting every interest committed to his care. Mr. Smith 
is a n.ative of Boston, a member of the Underwriters' Association, 
thoroughly experienced and. reliable in all matters relating to 
insurance. 

JAMES S. NEWELL & CO.. Mechanical Engineers and Machin- 
ists. Manufacturers of Presses, Dies, Etc., Nos. 300, 302 and 
304 Federal Street.— Among the best known iiractical and 
popul.ar mechanical engineers and machinists in Boston .are 
Messrs. James S Newell & Co , of Nos. 300, 302 and 304 Federal 
Street (between Beach and Kneeland Streets). This business 
was founded in 1840 by Chas Cleaves, who was succeeded by 
Messrs. Bray and Newell in 1807, and on the dissolution of tlielr 
partnership in 1868 Mr. James S. Newell became the sole proprie- 
tor, and since then he has conducted the business under the style 
whicli forms the caption of this sketch. The business has been 
carried on at its present location since 1884, and the premises occu- 
pied comprise two floors, each having an area of 90x72 feet. The 
equipments include the most eflicient tools and the latest improved 
machinery, which is operated by a fifty horsepower steam engine, 
while peimanent employment is afforded to between thirty and 
forty hands skilled and experienced in the business. The firm 
manufacture all descriptions of presses and dies, design and build 
all sorts of new macliiiiery, and give speci.al attention to the de- 
velopment and elaboration of inventors' plans. Models, patterns 
and mechanical drawings are made and gear cutting executed to 
order promptly and satisfactorily. Mr. Newell is a native of Wor- 
cester County, Miiss. 



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ME. HOWARD & CO., General ireieantile, Book and Job 
Fiinters, No. 164 Hanover Street.— For strictly lirst- 
^ class, all around work in tlie typographic line, or tor 
promptness anil reliability in executing orders, none in 
the business in this vicinity, enjoy a better reputation than M. E. 
Mowaid & Co. This popular and well known flrni was established 
In 1882, and from the start has enjoyed a very liberal share of 
recognition, havnig a large and growing patronage from secret 
■orders. The quarters occupied as oftice and shop are conunodious 
and well equipped, every facility and convenience being at hand, 
while several expert printers are employed. Everything in the line 
■of mercantile, book and job printing is done in the most prompt and 
excellent manner, at the lowest consistent prices, special attention 
being given to secret society work, including printing to order for 
the Golden Cross, Temple of Honor, Nazarite Legion. G. A. R.. and 
the Women s Relief Corps. A full and Hue .assortment of society 
badges, gold watch charms, lodge seals, solid gold pins, etc., can 
always be found on hand and all orders for anything in this line as 
well as in the typographic way receive immediate attention, while 
sample copies of assessment and due notices, etc., are promptly 
lurnished on application. Mr. Howard, who is the sole member, 
the company being nominal, w.is born at Plymouth, Mass., and is a 
thorough master of the art in all its branches. 

JE. WASSERBOEHR & SON, Manuf.acturers of Fine Cigars, 
No. 149 Court Street.— This business was established thirty 
, yearsagobyMr. J. E.Wasserboehr, who eventually admit ted 
his son, Mr. H. P, Wasserboehr into partnership. In 1875 
Mr. J. E. Wasserboehr died, after a successful and honorable 
career and was succeeded by his son, who is now sole proprietor. 
Mr. Wasserboehr's factory, which gives constant employment to a 
competent force of skilled cigar makers, is in the Third Dis- 
trict of Massachusetts. In the manufacture of his cigars, he 
uses only the finest domestic and Havana tobaccos, and makes 
a specialty of the popular II. P. W., ten cent; 149 and Pea 
cock, five cent cigars, .and numerous other brands. These cigars 
are unrivalled for quality, flavor, and uniform excellence, while 
the prices quoted necessarily attract the attention of careful buy- 
ers. Mr. Wasserboehr likewise deals largely in imported and do- 
mestic wines and liquors. Only the best liqours, etc. are handled 
and the trade of the house which is wholesale entirely, now ex- 
tends throughout all .sections of New England. Mr Wasserboehr 
was born in Germany, but has resided in Boston for the last thirty- 
one years. 

GO. HALL, Dentist, No. 96 Court Street.— Dr. Hall, who is a 
native of Maine, has resided in Boston for the past twenty 
J years. He is a regularly registered (jentist, and estab- 
lished the business six years ago. and has since that period, 
through his perseverance, thorough knowledge of his vociitioii,aiul 
his close application to the interests of his customers, built up a 
large, active patronage. He occupies .admiiiibly equipped premises, 
fitted up with the most modern dental appliances, and every facility 
necessary is at command. Dr. Hall performs dentistry in all its 
branches, including the extraction of teeth, cleaning, filling, etc.. 
and the making of partial or entire setsofartlticial teeth. All 
work is executed in a careful, conscientious and skillful manner. 
While all work done is in every case reliable and finished in char- 
acter, the prices charged are remarkably reasonable. Dr. Hall 
treats .all his p.atrons with the same uniform courteous attention, 
and persons requiring dental work done will fine! him at his office 
daily from 8 a. m to 6 p. m. 

WH. MARTIN, Window Tickets, Show Cards, Signs, Etc, 
No. 216 W.ashlngton Street.— Among the many and 
J varied features of advertising that obtain at the pres- 
ent day, there are few that have secured such an en" 
during hold on public favor as fancy show cards, attractive 
board signs and kindred devices. And in this connection it m.ay 
be observed that very notable improvements have been effected 
in the cards, signs and window tickets displayed of recent 
years. Among those who have acquired a reputation for artistic 
work in this line in Boston may be mentioned the name of W. H. 
Martin, who ranks among the foremost in this business in this city. 
Mr. Martin, who is a comparatively young man was born in Boston 



and is a practical and skillful workmen- an expert in fact— of 
many years' experience and is a thorough master of his art in all 
its branches. Mr. Martin occupies ample and well equipped quar- 
ters, on the fourth floor, and employs two competent assistants. 
Show cards, board signs and window tickets in every size, design 
and variety are made to order in the very best style of the art .at 
short notice, while a complete and fine assortment is always kept 
on hand, and lettering of all kinds likewise is executed in the 
most prompt and excellent manner, the lowest prices consistent 
with first-class work at all times prevailing. 

WM. N. CONNER, Propr. London Hair Store, No. 485 Wash- 
ington Street.— This progressive and flourishing business 
house was founded in 1874 by the present proprietor, wlio 
has since developed a trade of a very extensive and influ- 
ential character, having a thorough knowledge of every detail of 
the hair business, and giving every department the benefit of his 
experience. Tlie store is a corner one, and is commodious and 
handsomely and attractively fitted up. Mr. Conner has in service 
an able staff of assistants, and mauufactuies hair work of all 
kinds, especially for the use of ladies for the house and street, sup- 
plying dealers and filling individual orders from all quarters. He 
pays special attention to keeping up with and leading the styles in 
ornamental work, and makes a specialty of ventilated goods in the 
shape of waves, crimps, switches, etc., which have proved a great 
success. His wigs, fronts, etc., are pronounced most natural in 
appearance and durable in quality ; and his general goods please 
the ladies of all classes while he numbers among his patrons many 
from the wealthiest and highest circles. All kinds of crimps, 
switches and hair goods in every shade and color .are promptly and 
satisfactorily made to order. Possessing every facility for the 
work, neatness, beauty of style and artistic taste, form, the rule in 
every department, and his customers, both wholesale and retail, 
reside in all parts of the New England States. Mr. Conner is a 
native of New Hampshire, but has long resided in Boston, and is 
held in the highest esteem by all to whom he is known. 

HAMLIN & MARTIN, New and Second Hand Furniture. Car- 
pets, Stoves, Etc., No. 70 Kneeland Street.— This business 
was founded in 1880, by Mr. Henry J. Martin, who was 
j<iined under the linn name and style as above by Mr. 
Frank W. Hamlin in 1885. From its inception the house has be- 
come a favorite purchasing depot for the surrounding residents. 
The spacious and attractive salesroom is literally packed with 
household goods of every description, furniture, carpets, stoves, 
kitchen utensils, etc., etc., new and secondhanded. The goods 
handled are all of excellent quality and carefully selected with 
due regard for the current want and fancy. The highest cash 
prices are paid for second hand goods and many desirable opportu- 
nities are offered for profitable bargains in this connection. The 
gentlemen composing the firm have had a wide experience in the 
business and are thoroughly conversant with the wants of the 
trade. 

ANDREWS & CO., Truckmen, General Offlce, No. 404 Atlantic 
Avenue.- Perhaps the best known tnickmen in Boston, are 
Messrs. Andrews & Co., whose general ofHce is situated at 
No. 404 Atlantic Avenue, with stands at Nos. 61 Broad, 29 
and 30 India, 45 Pearl, and the corner of Commercial and Clinton 
Streets. Established in the business here for a period of twenty 
years, and from the outset doing all business with a promptituile 
and faithfulness that is ever appreciated, this firm enjoy avery 
substantial and enviable reputation. They are prepared to do all 
kinds of trucking, handling free goods only, and m.ake a specialty 
of the wlioles.ale house tr.ade. For the execution of all orders and 
commissions with the le.ast possible annoyance or delay to custo- 
mers this firm employ thirty-one experienced hands and forty-two 
horses, and are consequently in a position to grant their patronage 
every advantage and benefit known to the trade. Charges are 
placed at the lowest point of moderation, and all the great re- 
sources, accumulated through long years of identification with a 
jiarticular industry, are used to promote the interests of patrons. 
The members of this firm are Messrs. E. and H. D. Andrews. The 
senior partner has resided in this city for the past thirty years. 
Both are natives of Maine. 



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MAX WEISS, Globe Clothing House, Nos. 46 ami 46>^ Howard 
Street.— An establishment whose popularity demands 
special mention at our hands, is that of The Globe Cloth 
ing House. The enterprise was founded ten years ago by 
the present proprietor, ^fr. Max Weiss, and h.is siuce been con- 
ducted with unfailing success. The neatly furnished store is 
filled with a first-cKass assortment of new .and second-hand clothing 
of every variety and at prices to suit all means. The highest cash 
jirices are paid for gents' misfits and cast-olt garments, while care- 
ful attention is given to the cleansing, repairing and pressing of 
clothing, orders being expeditiously executed at the lowest charges. 
Directly opposite this store, Mr. Weiss also carries on a merchant 
tailoring establishment. He occupies commodious, tastefully ap- 
pointed quarters, and keeps constantly on hand a splendid assort- 
ment of foreign and domestic fabrics for coatings, vestings and 
suitings, also a full and complete stock of gents' furnishings, the 
display embracing all the latests and most f.ashionable patterns. 
Measures are accurately taken, only the most skilled labor is em- 
ployed, and the garments when ready fm- delivering are unsur- 
passed for perfection of fit, finish of workmanship, and genuine 
excellence, while the prices are placed on the most equitable basis. 
Mr. Weiss Is by birth a German, but lias resided in the United 
States tor the past twenty-live years. He has won success in busi- 
ness life by a close study of his patrons' interests, and his fair 
dealing. 

THORNDIKE BROS., Wholesale Dealers in Beef, Mutton and 
Lamb. Corner Blackstone and Clinton Streets. — Among the 
enterprising and prosperous tinns engaged in the wholesale 
h,andling of fresh meats in this vicinity, can be named that 
of Thorndike Bros. This popular and well-known firm was es- 
tablished in 1883. They handle nothing but prime stock, and all 
orders receive immediate attention, Messrs. Thorndike devoting 
close personal attention to every detail of the business. The tirm 
occupies a spacious b.asement. with capacious refrigerator and 
complete storage and other facilities, while several efficient sales- 
men are in attendance. A heavy and first-class stock is kept on 
hand at all times including choice beef, nmtton and lamb, and 
their trade, which is of a wholesale character entirely, is large and 
active, extending all over the city and suburban towns. Messrs. 
A. H.andC. W. Thorndike who are nativesof Maine, but residents 
of Boston a number of years, are men of energy and thorough re- 
liability in their dealings. 

BF. SILSBY. Confectioner, No. 101 Cambridge Street and No. 
6 Chamber Street.— The business of this concern was 
^ founded originally at No. 1 Bowdoin Square by the pres- 
ent proprietor, Mr. B. F. Silsby, in 1878, and a year later 
it was removed to No. 101 Cambridge Street. In September 1885 he 
started a branch store at No. 6 Chamber Street, which has ever since 
been conducted with the most gratifying success. The premises 
occupied at No. 101 Cambridge Street, comprise a handsomely ap- 
pointed store, 18x40 feet in dimensions, and a b.isement of like 
proimrtions. the latter being used for manufacturing purposes and 
provided with the latest improved mechanical appliances and 
other facilities for the manufacture of confectionery .and ice cream 
of every description. Purity is the main essential in this line of 
goods, and Mr. Silsby, whose reputation is so high for making none 
but the purest and best goods, is at once manifest. All kinds of 
confectionery are made fresh daily, fine cream caramels forming a 
specialty. Ice cream of a superior quality is supplied .at short 
notice. An extensive, brisk retail trade is done, using on an aver- 
age of 2.50,000 boxes a year. Mr. Silsby is a practical confectioner 
of long experience, and he exercises a close surveillance over 
every department of his business. He was born in Aurora, Me., 
and has long been a resident in Boston. 

HOYT & TRIPP, Mechanical Draughtsmen, P.ittern and 
Model Makers, Etc., No. 17 Chardon Street.- Among those 
whose reputation st.ands high in this specLil department of 
mechanical art, we find Mr. F. A. HoytandMr. B. F. Tripp, 
who are thorough, ingenious, practical draughtsmen, arul pattern 
and model makers, whose experience extends over many years. 
They have been associated as copartners about a year. Messrs. 
Hoyt &. Tripp arc skilled mechanics, and are particularly expert in 



designing and making draughts of intricate and complicated mech- 
anism, and make patterns and models from designs, with that in- 
telligent apprehension and promptness that has given them a rep- 
utation not excelled by any others in the city. All kinds of work- 
ing and experimental models, and patterns are made to order at 
short notice, and special attention is given to turning,jig,bandand 
circular sawing. The workshop on the fourtli Hour of the building 
above mentioned, is 28x35 feet in area, and is perfectly fitted up 
and equipped with special machinery and appliances operated by 
steam power, and on an average from three to live skilled 
workmen are employed, and orders are filled not only fiom 
the city and adjoining towns and villages, but from all parts o£ 
Xew England. Both members of the firm are well-known to in- 
ventors and manufacturers, and their ideas, suggestions and 
opinions are sought for and appreciated. Mr. Hoyt is a Massachu- 
setts man, and Mr. Tripp is from New Hampshire. 

EW. THOMPSON, New England Passenger Agent of the 
Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific Railway. No. 296 Wash- 
, ington Street.— This gentlcnum li;is been fllling his 
present position here since 1883, and has been con- 
nected with the railro,ad business of the country for the past 
twelve years. Mr. J. H. Mills is the New England freight 
agent for this railroad, and occupies office quarters with Mr. 
Thompson at the above address. Both freight and passengers are 
accommodated througli this agency, passage tickets and bills of 
lading being given to all parts of the western country by the most 
direct route possible. The C, R. I. and P. Railway is celebrated 
as one of the best routes on the continent, and the safety, comfort 
and speed of passengers are invariably assured by its management. 
Western bound travelers should consult this office before purchas- 
ing tickets elsewhere, as they will be accorded advantages and ac- 
commodations unequ.alled by any other company. Mr. Thompson 
is a Verinonter by birth, while Mr. Mills is a native of Massachu- 
setts; both are members of the Association of railroad and steam- 
ship .agents of Boston. 

BOYNTON & CO., Commission Merchants, Wholesale Dealers 
in Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, No. 41K Com- 
mercial Street — This prosperous business was established 
in 1883 by Chas. E. Robinson & Co., who conducted the same 
up to about one year ago, when they were succeeded by the push- 
ing and popular firm whose name heads the sketch. They haiulle 
everything in the line of foreign and domestic fruits, nuts, country 
produce and berries in season, including oranges, lemons, bananas 
and tropical products, and solicit consignments; a feature being 
made of prompt returns. The firm occupies commodious <iuarters, 
and carry on hand at all times a heavy and first-class stock, while 
several experienced salesmen are in attendance, and the trade of 
the liouse, which is of a wholesale character entirely, extends all 
over the New England .States, besides a flue local connection. Mr. 
George C. Boynton, was a partner in the old firm. He is a young 
man of excellent business qualities, as well as thoroughly reliable 
in his dealings, and is a popular member of the Fruit and Produce 
Exchange. 

FRED'K KOELLER, Cutler, No. 48 Hanover Street. -Mr. Fred'k 
Koeller, the well known cutler, has had a long experience 
in this special trade, and in 1883 was a member of the firm 
of Chas. & Fred'k Koeller, which was dissolved about two 
and a half years ago, when he established the business he is now 
conducting with such success. The premises are anqile for the 
purposes of the business, and a large, well assorted stock of fine 
table and pocket cutlery, surgical instruments, etc., is alw,ayskept 
on sale. Special attention is given to grinding and polishing cut- 
lery and tools, and to concaving razors in the best German, Eng- 
lish and American styles, .and to grinding and polishing all kinds 
of metal. Mr. Koeller warrants every razor coming from his 
hands, and can sell a new full concaved r.azor at $1.00 and $1.25. 
A native of Germany, Mr. Koeller came to this country in 1879. In 
his workshop steam power is used, and several expert workmen 
are employed in repairing and redressing cutlery and also in con- 
caving razors, a process which greatly prolongs their usefulness- 
Mr. Koeller also makes a special business of silver and nickel 
plating. 



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J ERE A. DENNETT, Dealer In Paper Hangings and Interior 
Decorations, No. 23 Biomfield Street.— Tliis business was 
founded.originally in IS-W, by Messrs. Dennett, Bliss & Jones, 
and was continned nnder that firm name for some years, 
vrhen changes in proprietorship occnrred.and resulted in Mr. Den- 
nett retiring from active business life; but tlie mantle of idleness 
became irksome to him and he began the s.anie line of industry 
again in 1S83, and lias built up a very flourishing trade from among 
his old pati'ons, and new ones, who are constantly increasing in 
numbers. He occupies a very neatly and appropriately fitted up 
store, which is fully equipped with every convenience and appli- 
ance necessary for the attractive display of the large and hand- 
some stock of goods on hand. Tlie assortment embraces a line of 
wall papers that rank as higli in the estimation of art critics, and 
interior decorators as any goods in the same line of industry in any 
portion of the world; and comprises gold and highly colored par- 
lor and drawing-room papers, with beautiful dados and friezes to 
match, while rich llbiary paperings in imitation of leather, carved 
oak and walnut are shown, with plain and embossed flocks, and 
other superior paper-liangings in bewildering variety and lavish 
profusion, while extremely rich and pleasing effects are obtained 
in compar.atively inexpensive goods. Tlie trade of this house is 
derived principally from among our leading and most distinguished 
citizens, and the facilities enjoyed by Mr. Dennett for procuring 
the very latest designs and styles from the leading manufacturers 
enable him to offer his customers the best and newest of every- 
thing in his line of business, at the very lowest prices. Mr. Den- 
nett is a native of Boston, and h.as had many years' practical ex- 
perience in his business. 

JOHN H. MCCARTHY, Commission Dealer in Mutton, Lamb 
and Veal, No. 12 Clinton Street.— Among the active enter- 
prising business men on Clinton Street, there are prob- 
ably none having a wider reputation than Mr. ,) ohn McCarthy, 
commission dealer iu mutton, lamb and veal. He has been es- 
tablished in the business tlie past ten years and has built up a large 
wholesale trade with the dealers throughout the city and vicinity. 
The premises is a spacious cellar, which contains every facility for 
the purpose of the business, including ample refrigerator for use in 
summer, and three employees are kept constantly busy about the 
establishment. Mr. McCarthy handles only the very choicest mut- 
ton, lamb and veal, and his connections are such as to enable him 
to supply the trade with the freshest and choicest that comes to the 
city. Consignments are received daily .and the stock is always in 
prime condition, and extensive in its character. Promtitude, quick 
sales and low prices form the policy upon which the business is 
conducted. Mr. McCarthy is a native of Charlestown. 

HE. GUSTIN & CO., Country Produce, No. 104 Clinton Street. 
—The firm of H.E. Gustin &Co., is prominently identi- 
fied with the produce business in Boston as one of 
the most energetic houses engaged in the line. The 
business was established by Mr. Asa Andrews in 1S78 and 
was carried on by him till 1883, when the present proprietor 
assumed control, and brought a first-cl.ass business trainingtobear 
on the conduct of the concern. Mr. Gustin employs three assist- 
ants and does a large commission business In country produce of 
all kinds, having firstchass connections all through New England 
who consign to him potatoes, etc., fresh every day. Mr. Gustin 
secures a ready market for these consignments at tlie most favor- 
able figures, and gives the greatest satisfaction to customers in all 
his transactions. He has also an extensive stall trade and is 
known in the city and .suburbs in connection with the reli.able 
character of the goods he handles. Mr. Uustin is a young man and 
is a native of Winchester, Mass. He lives iu SomerviUe. 

EJ. HARTNETT, Fashionable Millinery, No. 697 Wash- 
ington Street.— Nearly twenty years ago Miss E. J. Hart- 
iiett started in business lor herself as a fashionable mil- 
liner and fancy goods' dealer, and during her lengthy ca- 
reer she has built up a widely extended .and influential trade 
among the leading Lamilies in the community. In 1877 Miss H.art- 
liett moved into her present eligibly located quarters, and has 
fitted up her spacious and coinmodious store in the most elegant 
and t.astefnl manner, besides supplying the millinery parlors and 



salesroom with every improved facility and convenience. Miss 
Hartnett handles the choicest assortment of imported and do- 
mestic novelties in trimmed and uutriinmed hats and bonnets, 
ribbons, laces, feathers, flowers, velvets, plumes, mourning bon- 
nets, etc., all of which are of superior quality. A force of ten 
thoroughly experienced inilliners and clerks is constantly em- 
ployed. Miss Hartnett is a native of Boston and a lady of pro- 
nounced business .ability. 

NATIONAL PLATING CO., Nickel, Gold, Silver and Copper 
Plating, Albert G. Webb, Manager, No. 82 Sudbury Street. 
—The National Phating Co., is one of the best known in its 
special line of business in Boston, and was establislied and 
h.as been under the nianagenient of Mr. Albert G. Webb, for six 
years. He is an experienced practical man to the trade, and his 
knowledge of all kinds of plating is second to none in the business. 
The premises occupied on the 3rd floor of the building, No. 82 
Sudbury Street, contain every f.acility including steam power and 
special appliances tor executing the very best class of work in 
nickel and copper pl.ating, and metal polishing for the tr.ade and 
satisfaction is guaranteed. Skilled workmen are employed who 
are under the immediate direction of Mr. James D. Camphell, and 
all work emaniiting from the establishment is warranted. Mr. 
Webb is a native of Norwood, where he resides. Mr. Webb lias 
acquired a well deserved reputation for attention to the high 
standard and character of the work turned out. 

WM. H. VAN DALINDA, M.anufacturer and Wholesale 
Dealer in Barbers' Supplies, No. 298 WashingUm Street. 
—Mr. Van Dalind.a, who is a native of New Jersey, is 
a practical and experienced barber, and up to 1885 when 
he started in this line, liad been engaged in the exerci.se of liis art. 
He occupies ample and comjiact quarters, and keeps always on hand 
a full and flue assortment of barbers' supplies, inclnding the fol- 
lowing specialties; Van Dalinda's Egg Shampoo Cream, perfumed 
Petrolatuin Pomade, and French rose cosmetique; Castana jelly, 
Foley's cream, Damascene razors, shaving soaps, h.air oils, Florida 
and Lavender waters, essential oils, fine hones, straps, bay rum, 
etc.; and is prepared al.so to decorate sli.aving mugs in the very 
best style of the art at short notice, and at reasonable rates. Mr. 
Van Dalinda likewise attends to grinding and concaving, which 
are executed in the most prompt and excellent manner at lowest 
prices, and altogether, he receives a very nice patronage. 

WHITE & JOHNSON. Provisions. Butter. Eggs, Fruit, Vege- 
tables, Etc., No. 219 Eliot Street.— The well conducted 
establishment of Messrs. Wliite &. Johnson, is one of the 
leading sources of food supply in this section of the 
city. The premises in size are 3.5x30 feet, and neatly and taste- 
fully fitted up with handsome fixtures and are kept in a faultlessly 
clean condition. Mr. George G. White and Mr. Harry F. Johnson, 
the proprietors, are young practical business men and have been 
associated as copartners for the past two years. They are well 
equipped and provided with every convenience tor conducting 
business upon a Large scale and deal in only the choicest and best 
provisions of all kinds, and the finest creamery .and dairy butter, 
eggs .and f.arm produce generally, and vegetables .and foreign and 
domestic fruits. Messrs. White & Johnson, are thoroughly worthy 
of all patronage that may be tendered tliem. 

BRADLEY'S Troy Laundry, No. 9 Harrison Avenue.— One of 
the best equipped and best conducted establishments of its 
kind in this .section of the city is Br.adleys Troy Laundry. 
The proprietoi-, Mr. G. E. Br.adley, had had v.ast experience 
In his line before he ventured into business on his own .account, 
and this he did in 1.S82. In May, 1888, he removed to his present 
eligible premises, in w hich all the most improved Troy washing and 
Ironing machinery is in use, whileconstanteniployment is afl'cnded 
to a number of experienced h.ands. Those who send tlieir linen to 
this laundry will have it returned wliite as when in its virgin 
purity, and polished in a manner that can be truthfully called 
artistic. A spechalty is made of doing up lace curtains. Goods are 
called for and delivered in any jiart of the city, and all telephone 
oiders are promptly .attended to. Mr. Bradley is a n.ative of the 
city, is vigilant and attentive to all the affairs of his establishment. 



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JOHN POWER, Cork Manufacturer, No. 98 Union Street.— The 
oldest cork manufacturer In the city is Mr. John Power. 
Mr. Power has been in this line for the past forty-eight 
years, twelve years before he came to tlie United States from 
Ireland, wliere lie was born. He lias been established liere for (lie 
past twelve years, and occupies tlie second and tliird ttoors at No. 
98 Union Street. Mr. Power, besides manufacturing largely him- 




■self, deals in all kinds of capsules, imported corks, brewers' sup- 
plies, corkscrews, tin foil, etc.. and carries a large stock of all 
these various lines on liand. He is the patentee of the celebrated 
Power's Patent Corking Machines, which are in sucli general use 
throughout the country, and are justly considered the most per- 
fect niacliines of the kind in the market. 

SAMUEL R. CHOWELL, Ship Broker, No. 130 Commercial 
Street.— Samuel R. Crowell, ship broker. No. 130 Commercial 
Street, w.as formerly a member of the tlrm of Doane & Co , 
from which he withdrew in 1886, and engaged in business 
alone at the place indicated, and where he li.as secured a patronage 
of a permanent and gratifying character. Mr. Crowell charters 
and insures vessels for coast and international service, secures 
freights for all ports, buys and sells merchandise of every descrip- 
tion on commission at home and abroad. He is himself, interested 
in several ve.ssels, and Is prompt and reliable iu all his dealings. 
Mr. Crowell has a splendid connection among merchants, shippers 
and producers, and he covers every branch of his field of activity 
with intelligent attention to the requirements of his nnnieious 
patrons. He is a prominent and esteemed member of the Vessel 
Owners' Association. Mr. Crowell has a neat, well-appointed 
office, is aided by several assistants, and is untiring in his zeal to 
afford satisfaction in tlie carrying out of all orders. He is a native 
of Cape Cod ant! is a resident of Somerville. 

AH. BROWN cSi BROS., Millers' Agents, No. 129 State Street. 
—Among the solid and substantial firms engaged in this 
^ branch of conimerri.al activity in Boston can be named 
that of A. H. Brown & Bros., Millers' agents This vvell 
known and responsible house was established in 1883, and its his 
tory from the start marks an unbroken record of prosperity. The 
firm represent several western millers, and handle consignments 
of flour, grain of every description and mill feed, on commission, 
shipping direct from the mills In car loads, and their trade which 
extends throughont New England, is large and active. Messrs. A. 
H. and F. H Brown who compose the tlrni, are young men, and 
natives of this city, well and favorably known In the trade, and 
are members of the Chamber of Commerce, and are now enjoying 
the fruits of their business ability. 



EJ. BOYCE, Manufacturing .Jeweler, No. 383 Washington 
Street— Among the mostsuccessful and progressive m,anu- 
^ facturing establishments in this line is the well-known 
and popular concern of Mr. E.J. Boyce. Mr. John Jen- 
nings founded this business in 1880; in 1882 Messrs. Boyce & 
Wainwriglit became the proprietors, and on tlie dissolution of this 
firm, in 1883, I*lr. Boyce assumed sole control of the enterprise. 
He was a partner with Mr. Jennings when the latter founded the 
business. He was born in England, learned his trade and worked 
there as a journeyman, and after coming to tliis country iu 1873, 
and until he formed a partnership with Mr. Jennings, he was em- 
ployed as a workman. His exiierience and ability qualify him 
as an expert in the trade, and he closely supervises all work exe- 
cuted in his establishment, which is 40x40 feet in dimensions, and 
fully equipped with improved tools and machinery operated by 
steam power. Eightskilled and experienced hands are employed, 
and the products of the establishment comprise gold and plated 
bracelets, pius, rings and jewelry otevery description, a specialty 
being made of rings, plain and chased, and in many differentstyles 
and patterns. The trade is brisk and growing, the goods produced 
here being In high favor with both wholesale and retail dealers, 
and meeting with a ready sale, throughout the whole of tlie New 
England States. Mr. Boyce is well spoken of in mercantile circles, 
and merits the great degree of poimlarity to which he has at- 
tained. 

LEWI.s WOOD, JR., Manufacturer of Custom Cabinet Work 
Fine Store and Office Fittings. Moulding, Sawing, Turning. 
Etc., No. 10 Beverly Street.— Actively engaged as a inanu. 
facturer of custom cabinet work, fine store and office fittings, 
we find Mr. Lewis Wood. Jr , who has been established In the busi- 
ness here for upward of thirty years. He occupies large and commo- 
dious quarters, equipped with new and improved machinery and 
ample steam power, anu gives ste.idy employment to ten or a dozen 
skilled hands. He is prepared to execute all kinds of moulding, 
sawing and turning, also pattern and model making; while he 
makes a leading specialty of odd pieces, in which l>ranch of his 
business he is known to excel all his competitors. His large and 
permanent trade, broadly distributed throughout the state, and 
especially heavy and influential in tills city, is the direct result of 
the superior character and fine finisli of his various productions. 
In all departments of the business it has always been the aim of 
Mr. Wood to secure the highest standaVd of excellence in design, 
workmanship and finish. His work is always promptly and faith- 
fully performed, and his terms are placed atan eminently reason- 
able figure. Mr. Wood was born iu South Acton, Mass., and is now 
a well known and honored citizen of Everett, Mass., in which place 
he IS as well known as In Boston. 

EC. DOW, Outer .and Inner Soles, Taps, Etc., No. 10 South 
Street.— This house was established originally by Mr. E. 
J C. Dow In 1860, which subsequently became Messrs. Dow & 
Son in 1884, the latter having been admitted in 1878, and 
the present proprietor assumed sole control of the business. Tlie 
business ollice iu this city is under the charge of his son, W. E. 
Dow, wlierea full and complete assortment of allthe higher grades 
of goods in tlieir line of production are kept constantly on hand. 
The office is very neatly and cominodiously fitted up with every 
facility for the proper transaction of the business, orders are re- 
ceived both at the office and factory, and also shipped from eitlier 
place. The factory at Haverhill, Mass., is of amplediniensiousand 
fitted up with all the latest improved machinery required, and a 
full force of the best and most skilful workmen are constantly ein- 
ployed, whose operations are conducted under the immediate and 
personal supervision of tiie proprietor. Mr. Dow is particularly 
careful in the selection of stock for his goods, and none but the 
very best grades of sole-leather are used in the outer and inner 
soles, also taps prepared by him. The goods from this establish- 
ment have always occupied a very high position among the best 
boot and shoemakers, and are u.sed by them throughout this state 
and other portions of New England. Mr. Dow is a native of Mass., 
and h.as been in this line of business over a quarter of a century. 
The reputation of Mr. Dow's establishment is constantly increas- 
ing, while his methods of upright and honorable dealings are 
proverbial among those having business transactions with him. 



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WA. HUSTON, Druggist, No. 160 Hanover, Corner Salem 
Street.— The drug store of Mr. W. A. Huston, ha.s for 
J more than three-score years been one of the promi- 
nent business institutions in this section of the city. 
It was founded as far back as 1820, and since 1679 it has been under 
the direction of tlie present proprietor. The situation of this fine, 
largely patronized store is a most eligible one, and with its marble 
floor and counters, handsome soda-water fountain, splendid plate 
glass show cases, its finely arranged stock and electric lights the 
place has at all times an attractive and pleasing appearance. 
Jlr. Huston has at all times on hand a stock of drugs, chemicals, 
proprietary preparations, medicines, etc., all pure and fresh, and 
a stock of toilet accessories and fancy articles, druggists' sundries, 
etc., that will compare favorably with tliat of any similar estab- 
lishment in the city. Special attention Is given to compounding 
physicians' prescriptions and family recipes, this department be. 
ing in charge of thoroughly competent pharmacists. No druggist 
in Boston is better or more favorably known than Mr. Huston, who 
is a native of Maine, a pharmaceutical graduate and a pharmacist 
of long experience. The policy upon which his business is con- 
ducted is characterized by a careful regard for the interests of his 
]).atrons. 

AM. LELAND, Music Goods, No. 161 Tremont Street.— Mr 
Leland is an extensive dealer in the celebrated Postawka 
J taborets, fine violins and mandolins at various prices, the 
very best strings for the violin, banjo, guitar and man- 
dolin; piano chairs, stools and ottomans; piano chairs with ad- 
ju.stable backs and seats, piano tuners' outfit, piano polish, etc. 
He has been closely identified with the piano and music trade tor 
the past flfty years, being intimately conversant with all the de- 
tails and requirements of the business, and established his present 
enterprise here in 1887. His intimate and influential connections 
with the best manufacturing sources in tliis line, both in this coun- 
try and Europe, enable him to offer tlie public a line of specialties 
that cannot readily be obtained elsewhere. The stock bears such a 
character for utility, novelty, value and usefulness as to command 
universal attention. The demands of teachers, tuners, pupils and 
musicians of all grades are here met with intelligence and prompt- 
ness, and orders are filled with conscientious regard for the best 
interests of patrons. Mr. Leland is a Massachusetts man by birth 
and education, well and favorably known in this city and through- 
out the state as a thorough musician and an enterprising and re- 
liable dealer. 

AMcCLEAN & CO., Lumber and General Commission 
Merchants, No. 102 State Street. — The well-known Arm of 
^ A. McLean & Co., lumber and general commission 
merchants, has from itslinception to the present day main- 
tained a record of steady progress. The concern carries on a general 
business, making a specialty of lumber, however, and enjoys espe- 
cially favorable facilities for executing all orders in their line. The 
business of tlie firm extending to New York, besides Boston and New 
England. Special attention is given to soft and hard-wood lumber tor 
export orders, viz. : white pine, whitewood, white oak, first 
and second-growth ash, hickory, black walnut lumber and logs. 
Mr.McLean.wlio is the sole member.the Co. being nominal, is a Nova 
Scotian by birth, but came to this city in 1858. being now a gentle- 
man in the prime of life. He is a man of wide practical experience, 
active and energetic, and of entire probity in his dealings, and en- 
joys an enviable reputation in commercial life. 

EK. BURBANK, Real Estate Broker and Auctioneer, Room 
4, No. 235 Wasliington Street.— The Boston real estate 
I market has come to be recognized as the leading financial 
interest of tlie metropolis. Investments in Boston realty 
are more than ever sought for, and those who effect their pur- 
chases through the reliable house of E. R. Burbank, real estate 
agent and broker, will find the investment profitable. He is a,na- 
tive of Lowell, Mass., but is an old resident in Boston, where be 
has long been identified with real estate matters, and lie brings 
to bear on his business not only vast practical experience, but 
likewise an intimate knowledge of the respective merits of the va- 
rious residential and business sections of the city, as a talented 
and popular real estate agent. Jlr. Burbank started in business 



In 1885, and has been accorded a very substantial and influential 
patronage. As a broker, he posesses the most superior connec- 
tions and ample facilities to promptly buy or sell property of every 
description, and has carried through to a successful issue many 
heavy transactions. He conducts sales of real estate with 
ability and credit. 

CM. WARD & CO., Manufacturing Jewelers, No. 409 Washing- 
ton Street.— Among the prosperous concerns engaged in 
, the manufacture of jewelry will be found that of C. M. 
Ward & Co. The commodious premises on llie tliird floor 
are systematically and conveniently arranged and all requisite 
facilities are at hand for tlie adv,antageous prosecution of the busi- 
ness. Mr. Ward manufactures all kinds of jewelry— as scarf and 
lace pins, ear rings, finger rings, brooches, etc., in gold, silver and 
other materials, and special attention is given to repairing and 
diamond setting. Five skillful and experienced assistants are em- 
ployed, and the work turned out in all departments embodies the 
highest degree of artistic excellence. Mr. Ward was born in Eng- 
land but came to tliis city twenty years ago, and here learned and 
became an expert at his trade. In 1872 lie established for himself 
under the name and style as above, and in the period elapsed by 
superior work and fair and equitable dealing has secured a large 
and highly desirable patronage. 

GA. CLARKE. Designer, No. 9 Milk Street.— For variety, 
originality and beauty of designs in the lines of business 
J cards, letter-heads, book-covers, etc, or for promptness 
and reliability in executing work, but few, if any, in Boston, sur- 
pass G. A. Clarke, designer. He is unquestionably among the fore- 
most exponents of this branch of art in the city, and receives anex- 
cellentcity and out of town patronage. Mr. Clarke was born in Lit- 
tleton, N. H.. and has been in Boston some years. He is a thoroughly 
practical and expert designer, of ample experience in his profes- 
sion, and is a complete master of the art in its every detail. He 
has been established in business for himself something over three 
years, and from tlie first lie has constantly won his way to favor 
and recognition owi ng to tlie excellence of his work. Mr. Clarke 
is prepared to execute designs for business cards, letter-heads, 
book-covers, railroad-bills, etc, in the most superior and artistic 
mannerat short notice, specialattention being given tocominercial 
and railroad work, and all orders receive Immediate attention. 

MARINER & WILLIAMS, Shipping Agents, No. 152 Commer- 
cial Street.— Boston is the home of many sea captains and 
sailors whose services are always in demand to man the 
various vessels sailing from the port. To secure crews, 
owners and consignees call in the services oi the shipping agents, 
such for instance as Messrs. Marinerand Williams, who are exper- 
ienced, practical men, well known to masters and sailors, and 
who.can furnish crews at short notice and secure berths for long 
or short voyages for all who apply at their office. Mr. G. G. Mar- 
iner and Mr. S. J. Williams have been in partnership since 1882 
and occupied their present location about a year and a halt. Mr. 
Mariner is a native of Mt. Holly, N. J. He has been a sailor, 
iind for twenty-five years was captain of the staunchest vessels 
hailing from ports in his native state and from Boston. Mr. Wil- 
liams who was born in Bath, Maine, is an old-time residei.t of Bos- 
ton. He is a practical seaman well known in the coasting trade. 

RM. LOWELL, Plumber and Dealer in Plumbing Materials, 
No. 30 Brattle Street.— One of the oldest and best known 
, plumbers of the city is Mr. R. M. Lowell, of No. 36 Brattle 
Street, nearly opposite the Quincy House. Mr. Lowell, 
who is a native of Maine, and is now in his sixty-third year, came 
here at an early age, and learned the trade in which he has since 
become a leading representative. At the age of twenty-three he 
established his present business and succeeded from the start in 
obtaining a first-class trade in the neighborhood and throughout 
the city, which has steadily grown to its modern large dimensions. 
Besides his extensive business in doing practical plumbing of all 
kinds, especially of a sanitary description, he is in a position to 
undertake contracts for the plumbing work of new buildings at 
the lowest rates, h.aving three men employed in his establishment 
and is likewise ready to do repairs on the shortest notice. 



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SAGE'S TRUNK DEPOT, Nos. 628 and 630 Washington Street — 
The leading lieadquarters for trunl<s and travelling bags in 
this city is the establishment of Sir. O. F. Sage, familiarly 
known as Sage's Trunk Depot. The proprietor learned the 
trunk-making trade in early life, and established business forliini- 
self in 1S61, at No. 546 Washington Street, removing to his present 
quarters in 1876. Here he occupies a fine corner store, in the business 
Iwart of the city, specially suited for trade purposes, and three floors 
above for manufacturing. His reputation has become firmly estab- 
lished throughout New England as a manufacturer and whole- 
sale and retail dealer in, the finest grade of Ladies' and gent's, 
trunks, travelling and shopping bags, fancy leather goods and 
tourist articles of every description known to the trade ;.and, as 
makingaleadingspecialtyof basket trunks, in which branch of the 
trade he is known as excelling all competitors The stock here dis- 
played presents an exhibition of the possibilities of production in 
this line, and is an Interesting and instructive exhibit of the useful 
and the beautiful, the unique and the ornamental, in the trunk and 
travelling-bag industry. This is the centre from which radiates a 
tradeextendingtoallpartsof theNewEngland States. The wantsof 
dealers, tourists, travellers and all classes of consumers are here 
ministered to with eminent success and satisfaction in all cases. 
Jlr. Sage was born in Macon, Ga., but came to this city in his boy- 
hood. His life-long connection with this trade has given him a de- 
tailed knowledge of the business that is .always employed to the 
advantageof those who deal with the house. 

WHITON & KNIGHT, Mercantile and Theatrical Ticket 
Printers, No. 57 Washington Street.— This popular and 
responsible firm was established in 1883, and w.as form- 
erly located on Bromfield Street, where the business 
was conducted up to some four years since, when it was moved to 
the present commodious quarters. They occupy here .ample prem- 
ises on the third fioor, with steam power .and the latest unproved 
printing appliances, first-class outfit of type and complete facilities 
for executing .all orders, sm.all or large, with despatch, while half 
a dozen expert hands are employed, and the oHice is connected by 
telephone (2.568.) General mercantile, novelty and ticket printing 
of every description is done in the very best style of the 
art and in the most expeditious manner, at tlie lowest prices con- 
sistent with first-cl.ass work and honorable business principles, 
spechal attention being given to theatrical ticket printing and 
numbering, while theatrical bl.anks of all kinds are printed to 
order; lithographing and engraving also being promptly and reli- 
ably attended to .and all work leaving this concern is executed under 
the close personal supervision of the proprietors. Messrs. E. E. 
Whiton and S. B. Knight, who compose the firm, are both men of 
many years' practical experience .and are thoroughly conversant 
with the business in all its features and details. 

GEO E. CROSBY & CO., Printers, No. 383 Washington Street, 
0pp. he.ad of Franklin Street.— The book and job printing 
business is one of v.ast importance and extent in Boston. 
Among those who have gained eminence and distinction in 
this line are Messrs. Geo. E. Crosby & Co. Mr. Crosby, who was 
born in Milford, N. H., forty-three years ago,'has been identified 
with the typographical art in all its phases from his youth up, 
started business on his own account in Cambridge in 1880, and in 
May, 1886, he purchased the business at his present quarters from 
Messrs Johnson & White, who had founded it and conducted it 
since 1873. In Mr. Crosby's hands the patronage of the establish- 
ment has grown and multiplied, and the trade is now one of con 
siderable magnitude, requiring the constant employment of about 
twenty hands. The printing oRice li.as a capacity of 35x100 feet, 
and the mechanical facilities include three cylinder and seven job 
presses, which are operated by a twelve horsepower steam engine. 
Types of every description— modern, antique, plain and fancy— are 
abundant and varied, and .all the paraphernalia of a flrst-class, 
thoroughly equipped printing establishment are there at hand. 
Printing of all kinds, from a small business card to an el.abor.ite 
and finely-finished book, is executed with promptness and dispatch 
and at prices which no other concern in the trade can excel. This 
house justly prides itself upon the neatness and uniform excellence 
of t he work turned out,and the success it has achieved since founded 
is fully merited. 



WALTER LOCKETT & CO., Merchandise Brokers, Canned 
Goods, Etc., No. 7 Broad Street.— A firm which ably 
serves the best interests of the most prominent manu- 
f.acturers in certain staple lines is that of Messrs. Wal- 
ter Lockett & Co., general merchandise brokers and jobbers in 
canned goods, etc. The founder and proprietor of this business, 
Mr. Walter Lockett a native of -Massachusetts, is an old resident in 
Boston, and is a widely known and respected member of the mer- 
cantile community. He embarked in hispresentl-.neofbusinessin 
1880, and the wide-spread trade he has built uj) and the success he 
has .achieved sufl;iciently denionstr<ate his ability to satisfy the most 
exacting demands of his patrons. The firm are the sole agents for 
E. B. Mallory & Co.,"Arrow"Brand Canned Goods ; Gibbs Preserving 
Company, Bull Head Brand Canned Goods; Kraft & Winebrenner, 
Justice Brand Canned Goods; C. A. Kutledge & Bro., Rutledge 
Biiand Canned Goods; Erie Preserving Company, Erie Brand 
Canned Goods; L. Ladd, Ladd's Brand Canned Squash; J. S. 
Johnson. Johnson's Brand Bahama Pineapple ; W. Underwood & 
Co., Sardines, Blueberries, Etc.; S. M. Dingee & Son. Pickles, Etc. 
The firm are also connected, directly and indirectly, with .all the 
leading packers throughout the country. They occupy a neatly 
appointed sample room, where a large and well .assorted stock is 
at all times displayed. All orders are shipped direct from the 
canneries, and the trade is direct with jobbers, who are supplied at 
manufacturers' lowest quotations. The business relations of the 
house extend to every section of the United States, and are par 
ticularly active in the New England and western states. 

BARON & Co.. Manufacturers of Cigars, H. H. Sacker, Man- 
ager, New England Depot, No. 33 Central Street.— Although 
but a comparatively short time established here in Boston, 
Baron & Co., the widely known cigar manufacturers, with 
capacious factory at Nos. 1007-1009 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, 
and whose New Engl.and depot is located at No. 33 Central Street, 
this city, have already achieved a degree of success and built up 
an eastern connection that more than attests the wisdom tluat in- 
spired the venture. The Boston branch was established in June, 
1888, with W. H. Sacker as manager, and from its inception has 
proved a highly gr.atifyiug enterprise. The secret of the firm's 
prosperity in the New England st.ates is not far to seek, however; 
fine goods,reliable dealing and excellent m.anagement being the spe- 
cial features contributing to its well-deserved success. The olflce 
and salesroom at No 33 Central Street are compact and ample, 
while a complete and first-class sample stock is constantly carried, 
including the following favorite brands manufactured by Baron & 
Co.: La B.aronesa, Signet, El Tasso, Inside View, etc., and the 
trade done in this city, which is principally with jobbers and re- 
tailers is at once large and active. Mr. Sacker, the efficient man- 
ager here, is a man of energy and many years' business experience, 
and prior to assuming charge of the New England depot for Baron 
& Co., had been long a member of the coffee and spice firm of 
Davis, Sacker & Perkins, of this city. 

COUSENS & PRATT, Sail Makers, No. 3 Commercial Street.— 
No concern engaged in the sail making business in this city 
enjoys a better repuf.ation for skill or reliability, as few, it 
any, receive'a larger measure of merited recognition, than 
the firm of Cousens & Pratt. This well and favorably known firm 
was established in 1851 and from this period down to the present 
d.ay has received an excellent patronage from the vessels plying 
between this port and all the seaports of the world. In 1880 
William Pratt. Jr., one of the members, was removed by death, 
and the business has since been conducted by the surviving part- 
ner. C. A. Cousens, alone with uninterrupted success under the 
original style of firm, Mr. Cou.«ens,who is a m,an in the full prime 
of life, and a native of Cohasset, is a practical and expert sail 
maker, of long and varied experience, and is a thorough master of 
his art in all its details. He occupies a 2,5x125 foot floor, which is 
completely equipped in every respect with all necessary facilities, 
and employs from three to a dozen experienced hands, according 
to season. Sails of every description are made to order in the 
most expeditious and excellent manner, while a large and first- 
class assortment of new and second-hand sails are constantly 
kept on hand, and all orders tor anything in this line receive 
prompt and satisfactory attention. 



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LENT <St BRAHAM, Importers of Tailors' Trimmings, No. 110 
TremoiU Street, Studio BuildiiiK, W.J. Hyde, ABeiit.— The 
tr.ide in this line of gdods in Huston has grown to vast pro- 
portions within tlie last tew years, and the enterprising 
firm of Lent & Braliam, to better accommodate their large and 
raiiidly increasing patronage in this city, establislied this house ni 
1874 witii Mr. Hyde as their agent, and since its inception has been 
the recipient of a very substantial and constantly growing trade. 
Mr. Hyde is a native of New York, and prior to hisadventherewas 
employed for nniny years as traveling salesman for the popular 
and influential house lie so ably represents. His otHce and sales- 
roo)n are of ample dimensions, and are very conveniently arranged 
for Ihe display of the large line of samples con.stantly on hand, 
which embraces every thing known in tht' line of tailors' trimmings, 
such as buttons of all sizes and quality, sleeve and body linings 
for dress, business and overcoats, vest linings, trouser trimmings, 
facings, canvasses, hair and stiff cloths, sill(, linen and cotton 
threads, silk twists, etc. These goods are received direct from the 
main lumse in New York, wliose proprietors are in constant com- 
munication with foreign nuiinifacturers, whicli connections enable 
tliem to place on the market all the very latest novelties and de- 
signs in tailors' trinnnings sinuiltaneously with their appeajance 
in the Paris and I^ondon markets. Tlie system which prevails in 
this establisliment, under the direction of Mr. Hyde, indicates 
thorough skill and intimate acquaintance with every minute detail 
of a critical and exacting trade. The prices are the s.aine as those 
of the parent house, and customers can save time and money both 
by selecting from sample and ordering tlirough this house, as all 
orders receive special and prompt attention. The trade of this 
house is not confined to the city of Boston, but extends through 
out the United States. Mr. Hyde is also Ihe accredited agent for 
the old, reliable and popular New York Life Insurance Company, 
and does a very extensive business for it in this city. 

NICKEBSON & GLIDDEN, Commission Merchants and De.al- 
ers in Shoe Findings, Twines, Sash Cords, Tapes, Etc., No. 
48 South Street.— Among the most noted and scccessful of 
the younger houses in tliis line, and which are in keen 
competition with the old-establislied concerns for first place, is that 
of Messrs. Nickerson & Glidden, who are doing business at No. 48 
South Street. The members of this firm are Messrs. Augustus 
Nickerson and George B. Glidden, both young, enterprising Bos- 
tonians. Mr. Nickerson had previously been in the steamship busi- 
ness; Mr. Glidden was reared and trained in the shoe-finding trade, 
and knows all about it. from first to last, and how to meet the wants 
of shoe manufacturers and dealers with first-class goods at bottom 
prices. For about one year Mr. Glidden was in business on his own 
account on Bedford Street, and in Marcli, 1888, he formed a partner- 
ship with Mr. Nickerson. They have a fine officeand sample room, 
3l).\50 feet in dimensions, and here they conduct a most flourish- 
ing and wide-spread jobbing trade in all kinds of shoe-findings, 
twines, sash cords, tapes, etc. They represent several extensive 
manufacturers in these lines, and are in a position to fill the most 
extensive orders at the sliortest notice. 

CHAKLES F. PEASE, Pease's Durable and Household Bindings 
for Carpets and Oil Cloths, Etc., No. 3.1 Kingston Street.— 
This gentleman is the proprietor of Pease's Duriible and 
Household Bindings for carpets and oil cloths; also, excelsior 
(worsted warp) carpet bindiug, and handles extensively zinc and 
brass oil-cloth biudiugs. He also deals in curtain fixtures, worsted 
and wire picture cord, picture knobs, moulding-hooks and screw 
eyes, shade pulls, drapery loops, window screen cloth, carpet 
thread, etc. Mr Pease commenced business in Boston in 1862, as 
a member of the firm of Fowle & Pease, succeeding to the solecon- 
trol of the business in 1864. .Mr. Pease li.as made a special studyof 
the trade in bindings and is a recognized authority in the market, 
and displays a full and complete stock of the above-named siie- 
cialties .and supplies at all times. Pease's Durable and Household 
Bindings .are lield in high repute wherever introduced, and are in 
heavy and permanent demand in many .states of the Union, being 
preferred in many markets above all other makes for their great 
salability and solid worth. Mr. Pease is a well-known citizen and 
business man of Boston, and has ever retained the coulldeuce 
and esteem of commercial and trade circles. 



WM. READ & SONS, Importers and Dealers In Guns .and 
Sporting Goods, and Military Contractors, No. 107 W;ish- 
ington Street.— This business w.as founded in 1826 by 
Mr. Will. Road, who died in 1884, after a successful and 
honorable career. He was succeeded by his sons, who are now 
carrying on the business under the old firm name of Win. Read & 
Sons. The premises occupied are spacious and comprise a su- 
perior five-story and b.isement building, 35x100 feet in area. The 
salesrooms are fully stocked with a splendid and varied assort- 
ment of guns, rifles, revolvers, ammunition and shooting and fish- 
ing t.ackle of every description. Tliey offer guns of every descrip- 
tion, comprising all the prominent English and American makes 
in laminated steel, Damascus, and steel twist barrels, breech- 
loading double guns of Scott, Wesley Richards, Purdey, Moore 
& Harris, Hollis, and other English makers; also Colt, Parker, 
Harrington & Richardson, Remington, and all other American 
makes. W. & C. Scott and Sons' fine hammerless guns a specialty. 
Breecli-lo.ading rifles of all kinds, single and double barrel; May- 
nard, Winchester, Sharp's, Wesson's. Ballard, Remington, and 
others. Colt's, Smith & Wesson's and all other American pistols 
at retail or in quantity for shipping. All the American shells, 
wads, etc. James Di.\on & Son's fine shooting tackle. All articles 
adapted to the manufacture of guns, locks, stocks, cones, barrels, 
etc. A full assortment of fishing tackle, etc. Tlie firm are the 
agents for the Yates breech-loading cannon, invented by Colonel 
Theodore Yates of the United States Army, an exact model of eight- 
inch gun now being made for tlie United States (iovernnientby the 
South Boston Iron Company under appropriation made by Congress, 
It is believed to be the stroiigestand best breech-loading gun in 
existence. In their factory at Cliicopee, they manufacture the 
New Mail Bicycles, which are so largely used. The business is both 
wholesale and retail, and extends not only throughout the entire 
United States and Can.ada, but also to Mexico, Central and Soutk 
America, the East Indies, Cliin.a, Japan, South Africa and Austra. 
lia, their export business being very large. 

ELLIOTT J. HYDE, lusuiauce and Notary Public, No. 31 Milk 
Street, Room 6— One of the best known and most populai 
among the younger insurance brokers doing business in this 
city is Elliott J. Hyde, whose office is located at No. 31 Milk 
Street, Room 6, and than whom few in this line that have come tc 
the front within recent years in Boston have been more fortunate 
in securing a hold on public favor. Mr. Hyde, who is a gentleman 
of about thirty-two and a native of Newton, is a young man ol 
entire responsibility in his dealings as well as energy and ample 
experience in insurance matters, and prior to starting in business 
on his own account in 1884 had been for many years associated 
with his father in the same line. He carries on a general insnr 
ance brokerage, placing all classes of desirable risks with staunch 
and reliable companies at the lowest rates consistent with abso' 
lute security, while he is also a competent notary public: and alto- 
gether, he has an active and con.stantly improving business. Mr. 
Hyde is a popular member of the Boston Tariff Reform Associa- 
tion, and is noted for his honorable and straightforward business 
methods. 

BOWEN & CO., Real Estate and Business Brokers, No. 178 
Washington Street.— This firm began oper.ations in 1883. and 
since then have developed a large, active and influential 
patronage. This success has been achieved through a close 
application to the interests of patrons and by the satisfactory ser- 
vices which have in every instance been given. The active mem- 
ber of the firm is Mr. O. O. Bowen, who is a recognized aulhority 
in all matters affecting the present or prospective values of realty, 
improved or unimproved. He negotiates properties of all kinds, 
buying, selling, leasing and renting, taking entire charge of es- 
tates, negotiating loans on bond and mortgage, loaning money on 
personal security, and buying and selling business chances. In all 
cases he strives to promote the best interests of his patrons by a 
close study of their needs, and of the opportunities the market 
presents. Mr. Bowen Is a resident of Charlestown, and is famil- 
iarly known throughout the community. He is Deputy Supreme 
Justice of the order of the Iron Hall, and Grand Sentinel of Athe- 
nian Council. No. 161, and a member of the Royal Conclave ul 
Knights and Ladies. 



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GOULD & COMPANY. Wholesale Paint Dealers, Nos. 69 and 
71 Union Street.— Tlie business of this concern Wiis founded 
as (ar back as thirty-six years ago under the firm style of J. 
Porter Si Co., manufacturers of Porter's Patent Burning 
Fluid, of which firm Mr. J. A. Gould was a member. The son of 
the hitter, Mr. (Jeorge L. Gould, also bec.ime a member of the 
Arm ill 1S72. on the retirement of Mr. Porter Messrs. J. A. and G. 
L, Gould continued the business under the 
present style of Gould & Company, and they 
ic developed the trade to large proper- 
^ tions, the house being in all respects a repre- 
itative one in its line. The firm occupy 
iinnodious premises, consisting of a sales- 
>ni -10x80 feet in dimensions, and a base- 
ment of equal size, and these are admirably 
fitted up and provided with every facility for 
the successtiil pnisecution of the business. Messrs. Gould & Com- 
pany are manufacturers of copal and shellac varnishes and 
japans; Gould's 'imperial" carriage gloss paints and natural 
wood stains; and Gould's "silver light" high test oil. They are 
also the New Engl.and agents for Uenj. Moore & Co.'s calsom fini.sh, 
for walls and ceilings ; Lucas' greens and prepared paints ; " gran- 
ite" flour paints. Crocket's specialties, Pratt's liquid dryer, Wliit- 
ing's brushes, Moore's .absolutely pure oil colors,— warranted full 





strength; and for the Ulster White Lead Company, of New York 
city, the factory being located in Saiigerties, N. Y. The 'Ulster" 
lead is noted for its extreme fineness, whitness and covering 
qualities. This firm carries on hand an immense stock of painters' 
supplies of every description and offer these at prices whicli elTect 
a brisk sale and a trade extending to all parts ot the New England 
States. The business is exclusively ot a wholesale character and 
dealers and painters everywhere will find it advantageous to 
est.ablish business relations with this concern. Both members of 
the firm are Massachusetts men by birth ; and are widely known 
and esteemed in both commercial and social circles, the senior 
partner being a resident of Chelsea aud the junior partner resides 
at Maiden. 

FHOLDEN & CO., Beef. Pork, Lard, Hams, Etc., Nos. 49 and 
M Faneuil H,aII Market.— The supply of the choicest meats 
, and provisions h.as long been a prominent feature in the 
Hade of Boston, and among the leading firms engaged in 
catering to the wants of the community in this direction is that ot 
Messrs. F. Holden & Co.. at Nos. 49 and 51 Faneuil Hall Market. 
This firm are widely known as wholesale and retail dealers in 
beef, pork, lard, hams, etc. Tlie business w.as originally estab- 
lished in 1826 by Mr. E. Holden. who died in 1878. and w.as suc- 
ceeded by the firm of Holden & Glidden, tlie senior member ot 
whicli, Mr. F. Holden, succeeded to the sole control in 1883, under 
the present firm name. His stall is fitted up with speci.al reference 
to the trade, and thoroughly supplied with cold storage for the pre- 
servation of perishable articles in hot weather, while order and 
system prevails in all branches, and the entire place is a model ot 
neatness and cleanliness. Mr. Holden is determined that every- 
thing leaving his establisliment to be served to customers shall be 
of the very best that is reared and handled, and spares no pains 
nor expense in securing the choicest supplies, while his facilities for 
so doing are not surpassed by any of Ills contemporaries. He handles 
none but the very best meats and provisions, noted far and near for 
their fresliness, prime quality, fl.T,vor and excellence, and every de- 
tail of the management receives his most carelul supervision. His 
trade is large, first-class and infiuential in this city and throughout 
the surrounding country, and is annually increasing in volume and 
importance. Mr. Holden is a native of Boston, liberal and con- 
scientious in all his dealings, and eminently popular with his host 
ot patrons. 



THE PENINSULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, Manufacturers 
of Button Attaching M.achiiies .and F;usteners, No. 88 Lin- 
coln Street.— As m.anuf.acturers of button-.attaelilng ma- 
chines and fasteners, this company has become witliln a 
comparatively short space of time one of the most iinportiintand 
best-known of Boston institutions, whose works and products are 
known throughout the length and breadth of the land. It was but 
four short years ago that this company became incorporated and 
opened an office in tills city, establishing its works at about the 
same time, in Boylston. The factory ot the company at Boylston, 
contains three stories and a basement, 30x100 feet in dimensions, 
thoroughly equipped with new and improved machinery, operated 
by a fifty horse-power steam engine, .and steady employment is fur- 
nished to fifty skilled hands. The salesrooms in this city are spa- 
cious in size, eligibly located, well stocked :iiul ably managed, and 
every facility is at hand for the prompt.and perfect fulfillment 
of orders ot any magnitude. A brancli factory and oRice is 
also oper.ated .at Toronto, Canada, in charge of the well-known 
shoe-finding dealer, Phillip J.acobi, and another in London. Eng- 
land, while the connections of the company are pr.actlcally world- 
wide. In the construction of their specialties tills company have 
pl.aced all the skill and experience attainable, and the result Isa 
product unique, utilitarian, useful, novel, and the perfection of 
mechanical genius and the highest order otpr.actical ingenuity 
and skill. It is placed upon the market at prices which bringthem 
within the reach of .all classes of buyers, and which are satisf.actory 
to the trade. The officers of the company at present comprise Ed- 
ward O. Ely. vice-president; Geo. E. Parker, treasurer. Mr. Ely 
is a native of New York, while Mr. Parker is a Boston man. 

THE ALLIANCE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, of New York, 
Robert A. Boit, Manager, No. 40 Kilby Street.— Mr. Robert 
A. Boit is the authorized agent of the Commercial Union 
Insur.ance Company, of London, and the Alliance Insurance 
A.ssociation, of New York, in this city, and is also prominent and 
popular as a general fire insurance broker. Tlie agency was origin- 
ally established here in 1878, by Messrs. Crosby & Boit, the pres- 
ent proprietor succeeding to the sole control in 1883. His long ex- 
perience in the insurance business is the best possible guarantee 
that he fully understands all its details, and th,al he can offer the 
very best indemnity furnished by responsible insur.ance eorpor.a- 
tions. He possesses unusual facilities for placing large lines of in- 
surance on mills, m.anufactories, churches, business blocks, public 
institutions and private residences at reasonable rates, while the 
officers and managers of the companies that lie represents liave 
entire confidence in his ability and integrity. Tins enables him to 
secure equal and ex.act justice to all parties in interest when a loss 
occurs, while all classes ot desirable ri.sks are placed with stable 
.and reliable companies, perfect indemnity is offered, the prompt 
adjustment .and speedy payment of all honest claims are guaran- 
teed. Mr. Boit was formerly connected with the New York office 
of tlie Commercial Union, where he acquired a foundation under- 
standing ot the details aud requirements of the fire insurance 
business. He is a prominent member of the Boston Underwriters 
Association and the New England Insurance Exchange. 

WM. A. PERRY, Real Estate and Insurance, Room 26 
Globe Building, No. 244 Washington Street.— Not many 
among the younger real est;ite and insurance brokers 
of Boston have been more fortunate In establishing a re- 
put,ation for integrity and reliability than Mr. William A. Perry, 
who is a native of Rhode Isl.and, born in Providence, but tor sev- 
eral years a residentof this city. He h.as been engaged in this line 
since 1885, and has occupied the preseni; quarters in the Globe 
Building, No. 244 Washington Street (room 26), for about two years. 
Mr. Perry conducts a general real estate business, and also negoti- 
•ates mortgages, effecting loans at lowest r.ates, while special atten- 
tion IS given to tlie management of est.ates, which are taken entire 
charge ot and judiciously man.aged. Insurances pl.aced with first 
cla.ss companies, likewise, including the following staunch institu- 
tions, for which Mr. Perry is agent: The Imperi.al Insurance Com- 
pany, of London. Eng.; tlie Sun Fire Insurance Company, ot Lon- 
don, and the Contineiit.al. of New York ; and altogether, quite a 
large and growing business is transacted. 



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DREW BROS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Flour, Tea, 
Coffeo ami Spices.and Choice Family Groceries.Etc, No. 98 
Cambridge, Corner ol South Russell Street, and No. 55 An- 
derson Street.— The reputation of this firm is of the highest, 
both as regards the quality of goods carried, and tor enterprise 
and liberality in business management. The firm deal, chiefly at 
retail, iu flour, teas, coffees and spices, and choice family groceries 
of all kinds, making a leading specialty of fine creamery butter. 
All the specialties handled by the house are bought direct from 
producers, trusted agents securing and transporting tliem daily in 
such quantities as the trade of the house demands. No inferior 
goods are kept, the custom of the house and tlie liigh character of 
the proprietors prohibiting the sale of any but the choicest in 
the market. Messrs. Drew Bros, are also the originators of the 
"Boston Casli Indicator and Cash Recorder," and are largely in- 
terested in the Boston Cash Indicator and Recoider Company, 
who are now offering to the public their new and perfected cash 
registering machine, the simplicity, accuracy and perfect working 
of which, surpasses anything of the kind yet invented. It records 
plainly every purchase, and toots up accurately the total amount of 
each day's sales. It does not make mistakes, but corrects care- 
lessness and errors on the part of either proprietor or clerks. The 
Massachusetts Mechanic Association, at their last exhibition, 
awarded this company a silver medal and diploma. The particu- 
lar points mentioned in the diploma were for ingenuity, accuracy, 
and simplicity in cash registering apparatus. It is patented in 
the United States and in EngUand. Tlie company is officered by 
Mr. James H. Wright as president.and Mr. W.W. Drew, treasurer, 
with its Boston office at No. 98 Cambridge Street. The firm of 
Drew Bros, is composed of Messrs. W. W. and Oscar Drew, born 
in Canada of New Hampshire parents. 

^ANIEL RUSSELL, Wrought Iron, Steam and Gas Pipe, and 
ail kinds of Brass and Iron Fittings, Etc., No. 18 Howard 
Street.— An old established and highly successful house 
which has earned a reputation as a leader in its special line 
of trade, and which is, therefore, entitled to special commendatory 
notice in this volume is that of Mr. Daniel Russell, of No. 18 How- 
ard Street. The business of this representative concern was inaug- 
urated some twenty-one years ago by the above gentleman, in 
company witli Mr. Tliomas F. Burke, and was carried on under 
their joint control until 1887, when Mr. Burke's lamented death oc- 
curred. Mr. Russell conducts a general line of operations as a 
dealer in wrought iron, steam, and gas pipe and all kinds of brass 
and iron fittings, coils, heaters, pumps, steam and gas fitters' tools, 
hot water and steam, warming and gas lighting apparatus. He 
enters into contracts for steam and hot water heating, plumbing 
and gas piping, also sinks tubular and artesian wells, and applies 
hot water attacliments to hot air furnaces. Estimates are fur- 
nished iit the shortest notice, the prices being fixed at the most 
moderate scale, and contracts are carried through to completion 
in a manner reflecting the higliest degree of finished workmanship. 
Tiie premises occupied for the business have dimensions of 25x100 
feet, and are equipped with the most approved mechanical devices 
for the prosecution of the industry. A heavy stock is constantly 
kept on hand of goods in the lines above named, the resources of 
tlie house being complete for meeting all demands made upon its 
resources. A large force of skilled workmen are employed and 
expedition as well as care marks the manner in which all work is 
executed. 

WINSLOVV FURNITURE CO., Furniture, Carpets, Bedding, 
Etc., S. Winslow, Manager, Nos. 28 and 30 Portland 
Street.— This enterprise was tounded in 1882, upon a scale 
far from so extensive as that upon wliicli it is now car- 
ried on. Year after year, however, the business has increased, 
capital and facilities augmenting in proportion, and newand more 
ample quarters occupied. In 1888 the business had so much in- 
creased, that more commodious premises became a necessity, and 
a removal was effected to tlie premises now occupied, at Nos. 28 
and 30 Portland Street, near Hanover Street. These premises 
comprise an entire building of three floors, each 20x40 feet in di- 
mensions, and these are stored with a complete and varied stock 
of goods from first hands, embracing all the newest patterns in 
upholstery, and the latest designs in furniture, from the most re- 



liable manufacturers of the country. Everything which may 
properly belong to furnishing a house may be found here, includ- 
ing Wilton, axminster, velvet, brussels, tapestry and ingrain 
carpets, oil cloths, rugs, parlor, chamber and kilciien furniture, 
spring beds, mattresses, bedding, curtains, draperies, folding and 
mantle beds, roll top desks, etc., all of which are offered at the 
lowest possible prices, and lower than those of most liouses in the 
trade. A specialty is made of furnishing liotels, and here tliose of 
moderate means as well as tlie affluent liave opportunities to gratify 
their tastes and desires. The manager, Mr. S. Winslow, is a native 
of Massachusetts, and a business man of tact, push and enterprise. 
The standing and reputation of the house is of the highest charac- 
ter, and the establishment is one meriting the liberal support it 
receives. 

FRANK J. TRIGGS; Representing Arthur & Bunnell, Litho- 
graphers, New York; No. 12 Post Office Square.— Foremost 
among those who have gained a national reputation as lith- 
ographers are Messrs. Arthur & Bonnell, the noted lithogr.aph- 
ers, of No. 55 Cedar Street, New York City. This firm have been 
in the business since 1849, .and from a small beginning have devel- 
oped a trade which is only confined by the limits of the country. 
Their business premises have grown with their trade, .and to-day 
their printing works are .among tlie largest in the Union. They 
execute every description of lithographic work, whether for illus- 
tration of fine books or catalogues, or for securing ornanientatioD 
and neatness in design of bill heads, cards, letter headings or any 
kind of papers and books used in business transactions. They 
also m.anufacture blank books, account books, etc., for merchants, 
factories, hanks, insuiiince companies, etc., in all forms and sizes 
desired, .and. at the lowest rates. Since 1882 tlie firm have had a 
branch ofiice and an extensive business connection in Boston at 
No. 12 Post Office Square, and the establishment here iu under tlie 
niiinagement of Mr. Frank J. Triggs, wlio has control of tlie 
whole New England tr.ade, and who is always prepared to furnish 
samples and estimates for all descriptions of work desired. In 
his hands the business has grown and is growing. 

WILLIAM WEST &CO.,ManufacturingConfectioners, Cakes, 
Etc., No. 17 Hanover Street, 3 Doors from Court Street.— 
One of the oldest le.ading confectionery and fancy bakery 
establishments in Boston istliatof Messrs. William West 
& Co. This business was founded in 1851 by Mr. John Dornhoffer, 
to whom Mr. William West succeeded in 1863. Upon his lamented 
decease in 1883, his son. Mr. William West, Jr., succeeded to the 
proprietorship, and has actively and successfully conducted the 
concern. He brings to bear a wide range of experience and caters 
to the most refined circles of Boston society. He has liere a large 
store, eleg,antly fitted up, and two spacious basements devoted to 
the manufacture of the choicest, pure and delicious confections of 
all kinds. Mr. West also produces superior wedding cakes, of the 
richest ingredients, and iced and ornamented in the most elaborate 
style. This is recognized headquarters tor all kindsot cakes of the 
finest quality, both at wholesale and retail, and Mr. V^'est supplies 
customers all over New England. He offers great inducements to 
the trade iu handling only the purest and choicest goods. 

EE. BUTLER & CO., Produce Commission Merchants, Etc., 
No. 104 Commercial Street.— Among the iiroiiiinent and 
responsible produce houses doing business on Commercial 
Street may be mentioned that of E. E. Butler & Co., com- 
mission merchants, and dealers in butter, cheese and eggs. This 
reliable and well known house was established in 1868, by the 
present senior member, who conducted it alone up to August last, 
when he admitted into partnei'ship H. P. Upham, and thus formed 
the popular and prosperous firm whose name heads this sketcli. 
They occupy for business purposes a 25x75 foot floor and cellar of 
equal area, and carry constantly on hand a large and fine stock, 
which includes butter, cheese, eggs, poultry and game in season, 
beans, peas, etc., while several competent assist.ants are in attend- 
ance. The firm handles a general line of country produce on com- 
mission, consignments being judiciously disposed of and returns 
for tlie same promptly made in every instance, and the trade of 
the house which is wholesale entirely is quite extensive, all orders 
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LSTRECKEK & CO., Manufacturers and Jobbers of Pants 
ana Vests, Specialty in Tliin Coatings, No. 147 Summer 
J Street.— Tliis house was founded originally by Messrs. 
Strecker and Brotlier in 1860 at wliicli date they embarked 
in the manufacture of hats and caps, and in 1876 they went into 
the present line of trade which was conducted under the original 
firm title until January, 1886, since which period it has been car- 
ried on by Mr. L. Strecker under the present firm name. The 
proprietor was born in Germany in 1828, hut has been a resident of 
the United States for over half a century. He occupies spacious 
and commodious premises, having a frontage of forty feet with a 
depth of nearly three times tliat distance. The store, office and 
salesrooms are very neatly and appropriately fitted up with all the 
latest conveniences for tlie display of the large stock of goods 
kept constantly on hand and witli every facility for the proper 
transaction of tlie large and constantly increasing business. The 
stock embraces a full and complete assortment of pants and vests 
made up from tlie very finest and best imported and domestic 
materials in the latest styles. A careful inspection of tlie stock 
reveals the fact that the goods are made witli tlie greatest care by 
experienced workmen a large force of wliicb are kept in constant 
employment. The Icutting of these garments is performed by a 
full force of the most competent and artistic cutters to be found 
in the city, while tlie prices are so low as to defy competition. In 
addition to the mannfacturiug of pants and vests Mr. Strecker 
makes a specialty of thin coatings, and in his extensive assort- 
ment of goods in that line will be found the very best fabrics both 
imported and domestic, all of the very latest styles and patterns, 
which are offered to the trade .at the lowest prices. The connec- 
tions of this establishment are very large and not only embrace 
the city and suburbs, but extend throughout the entire New Eng- 
land State-i. 

JV. FLETCHER, Wholesale and Ketail Dealer in Beef, Pork, 
Laid, Hams, Tallow, Pigs' Feet, Tripe, Etc., Nos. 66 and 68 
^ Faneuil Hall Market.— A business concern conducted for 
the long period of fifty-six years with uninterrupted suc- 
cess by one person is of such a rare occurrence in these days of 
commercial vicissitudes as to warrant prominent mention in this 
work. Such is the achievement of Mr. J. V. Fletcher, the widely 
known and popular wholesale and retail dealer in beef, pork, lard, 
hams, tallow, pigs' feet, tripe, etc., occupying stalls Nos. 66 and 
68 Faneuil Hall Market. Mr. Fletcher is a native of Westford, 
Mass., and tliere he established himself in business in his present 
line of trade in 1828. Nine years later he removed to Faneuil Hall 
Market, and here for a period of fifty-one years lie has been one of 
the most prominent and successful business men in that mart of 
trade, while he is now one of tlie, it not the oldest stall-holders in 
the market. He now controls a large business, in the manage- 
ment of which he Is ably assisted by his two sons, George V. and 
J. H. Fletcher, both of whom were born in Charlestown. His 
stalls are commodious, and finely fitted up and well equipped with 
all necessary appliances for facilitating the transactions of the 
extensive business done. A very large stock is carried at all times, 
and as this is daily renewed it is always kept fresh, choice and 
wholesome. The business demands the permanent employment 
of seven efficient and experienced assistants, and delivery wagons 
are in constant service. In a wholesale way Mr. Fletcher's trade 
reaches to all parts of New England, and his city and near-by 
trade is one of considerable proportions. 

CKAFTS & CO., Druggists and Apothecaries, No. 148 Commer- 
cial Street.— A time-honored and well-equipped Boston drug 
store is the commodious and admirably conducted establish- 
ment of Crafts & Co., druggists and apothecaries, whicli for 
upward of half a century has maintained an enduring hold on 
public confidence. It is, in fact, one of the oldest, largest and 
leading establishments of the kind in this section of tlie city. 
Physicians' prescriptions and family recipes are here prepared in 
the most careful and reliable manner in every instance from abso- 
lutely pure and fresh ingredients. This well and favorably known 
drug store was established over fifty years ago by E. Crafts, who 
conducted it alone up to 1872, when he associated with liim in 
partnership H. G. Nelson, thus constituting the popular firm whose 
name heads the sketch, and under tliis style the business lias .since 



been continued with uninterrupted success, although the founder 
retired in 1884 and Mr. Nelson was removed by deatli two years 
later. The present proprietors are Messrs. J. VV. Hunuewell & 
Co., the senior member of which has had a practical experience of 
thirty years, while the establishment is under the capable man- 
agement of Dr. C. A. Place, a thoroughly competent pharmacist 
and skilful physician of several years' practical as well as thorough 
experience in tiie laboratory. The business premises occupy four 
25x7-5 foot floors, including a spacious and well kept pharmacy, while 
three experienced assistants are in attendance. An extensive and 
carefully selected stock is always carried on hand, comiirlsing 
everything compreliended in drugs, medicines and cliemicals, 
extracts, acids, herbs, barks and pharmaceutical specialties, min- 
eralSjStandard proprietary remedies, sanitary preparations, toilet 
articles, perfumery, soaps, sponges, chamois and druggists' sun- 
dries in great variety, while ships' medicine cliests are Inrnished 
and also replenished in the most superior and satisfactory man- 
ner, and the trade, which is both wholesale and retail, is very 
large, the firm having an extensive marine patronage witli coa.st- 
ing vessels. 

PRAY & TILLSON, Diamond Cutters, Recutting a Specialty, 
No. 383 Washington Street, Room No. 'i5.— A thoroughly rep- 
resentative and successful house engaged in tliis line of 
business, and very popular with the trade is that of .Messrs. 
Pray&Tillson, the individual members of which are Mr. A. H.Tray 
and Mr. John Tillson.both natives of the old Bay State and for 
many years residents of Boston, wliere they served a long and faith- 
ful apprenticeship in learningall the intricacies and delicate work 
of diamond cutting. After acquiring a thoroughly practical ex- 
perience under the personal tuition of the late Henry D. Morse- 
they formed a copartnership and embarked in the business on tlieir 
own account in May, 18S7. succeeding to the wholesale trade of 
The Morse Diauioud Cutting Co. They occupy premises of ample 
dimensions, of easy access at No. 383 Washington Street, (Room 
25,) which are thoroughly fitted up and equipped with all the latest 
and best improved machinery nnd appliances required in the suc- 
cessful prosecution of their trade, being possessed of all these 
facilities and with their experience and knowledgeof the business 
they are prepared to execute all orders lor cutting, polishing and 
matching of diamonds promptly in the best manner known to the 
trade at very lowest prices. Their machinery is driven by ste,am 
power and none but the most experienced and skillful workmen 
are employed, whose operations are conducted under the imme- 
diate personal supervision of tlie flrin. A particular specialty is 
made of polishing and recutting and all work of this character 
receives the most careful attention. Messrs. Pray and Tillson are 
perfect masters of their business and enjoy tlie fullest conhdence 
of the trade. 

ROBERT LAYCOCK, Merchant Tailor, No. 19Bosworth Street. 
-Among the enterprising merchant tailors in Boston, we 
desire to call attention to Mr. Robert Laycock, a gentleman 
who h.as had an experience in the business extending over 
thirty years and who has become well known and enjoys an excel- 
lent reputation for liberal dealing and the higli char,acter of his 
goods and workmanship. He occupies a very desirable location 
under Horticultural Hall at No. 19 Bosworth Street. Mr. Laycock 
displays fine taste'and excellent judgment in selecting his stock and 
exhibits a handsome assortment of new, elegant goods in the piece, 
embracing everything that is new and of the latest style in both 
foreign and domestic fabrics in suitings, trouserings, etc. Every 
attention is given to the cutting and fitting of wearing apparel, 
which is done under the immediate supervision of Mr. Laycock, 
who numbers among his patrons many of tlie leading citizens. As 
an expert practical cutter, he is not surpassed, and as he employs 
the best skilled workmen and is careful in the making and trim- 
ming, he can always guarantee the best satisfaction. No goods 
leave the establishment without undergoing his careful inspection 
and he will be found careful and accurate and indefatigable in his 
endeavors to please all who favor him with their patronage. Mr. 
Laycock who was born in Ireland, came to Montreal, Canada when 
quite young, where he learned his trade, and soon after located in 
Boston. He has been established in business on his own account, 
only since Sept. 1888. 



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LANE & SMALL, Machinists, No. 3S0 Atlantic Avenue.— In 
tlie construction of liglit ineclianlcal devices, models and 
electrical apparatus no firm in tlieir line in tliis city e.xcels 
Lane & Small, tlie well-known niaciiinists, model maimers 
and diesinliers, wliose well-equipped shop is located at No. 
380 Atlantic Avenue. Tliey are, in fact, .among the leaders in tlieir 
special line in Boston, and have a large, active and growing busi- 
ness. Messrs. F. Lane and F. E. Small, wlio compose the firm, are 
comparatively young men ami natives of this city. They are both 
practical and expert machinists of several years' experience, and 
are thorough masters of tlie art in all its features and phases, while 
Mr. Lane is a sliilful electrician likewise. They commenced busi- 
ness on their own account inNovember, 1885, moving to the present 
commodious quarters in 1887, and the unequivocal success that has 
attended their efforts from the start abundantly attests tlie excel- 
lence of the work turned out as well as the wisdom that inspired 
the venture. They occupy a 25x7.5 lloor, with ample steam power 
and all necessary machinery and general appurtenances, and em- 
ploy a competent force of skilled meclianics. Light meclianical 
work of every description is executed in tlie most expeditious and 
excellent manner; Are alarms and electrical appliances being spe- 
cialties, while punches, dies and kindred devices are made to 
order In flrst-class style at short notice. Models are constructed, 
also, with the utmost tidelitytodrawing.particularattention being 
given to patents and experimental work, and all work done in this 
establishment is executed under the close personal supervision of 
the proprietors. 

KILBORN, WH1TM.\N & CO., Manufacturers ot Fine Parlor 
Furniture, Etc., No. 46 Canal Street.— Prominent among 
the various houses of enterprise and refinement in the city 
of Boston, successfully engaged in the manufacture and 
sale of tine parlor furniture, etc.. is tliat of Messrs. Kilborn, 
Whitman & Co. The factory of the house, whicli is fully supplied 
with modern tools, machinery and appliances, and furnishes con- 
stant employment to lOU skilled cabinet-makers and operatives, is 
situated at Chelsea. The business w.as established eigliteen years 
ago by Palmer & Whitman, who conducted it until 1878, when, on 
the retirement ot Mr. Palmer, Mr. Whitman became sole propri- 
etor, and is now carrying on the business under the firm name of 
Kilborn, Whitman & Co. He manufactures extensively all kinds 
of hue parlor furniture, easy chairs, reclining chairs, foot-rests, 
rockers, stands, etc.. and makes a specialty ot odd pieces. Much of 
his parlor furniture is made from the rarest woods, including ma- 
hogany, cherry, cocobla, French walnut, rosewood, ebony, etc., 
which, from their line grain and richness of color, always sustain 
such a high linish. His upholsteries are of the finest quality, the 
richest stuffs, of all desirable shades and textures, being used in 
bis parlin- suits. Mr. Whitman promptly fills all ordersat the low- 
est possible prices, and his trade, which is chiefly wholesale, ex- 
tends throughout the United States and New Brunswick. The 
premises occupied in Boston comprise a spacious six-story build- 
ing, 25x120 feet in area, with one floor of the adjoining store. These 
are fully stocked with a superior assortment of furniture and 
specialties of his own manufacture. Mr. Whitman was born in 
Pembroke, Mass., but has resided in Boston for the last tliirty 
years. 

UNION STEAM SPONGING WORK.S, M. Crohn, Proprietor; 
No. 17 South Street.— The Union Steam Sjionging Works, 
under the proprietorship of Mr. M. Crohn, was established 
originally upon a small scale by Mr. Louis Crohn, father of 
the present proprietor, in 1853, and since that date has always en- 
joyed a very liberal and substantial patronage. Mr. M. Crohn suc- 
ceeded to the business in 1873, and owing to the rapidly increasing 
trade was obliged to seek nioie commodious quarters, and accord- 
ingly removed to his present stand in 1883. The premises utilized 
are spacious and commodious, eligibly located and fitted up with 
all the latest improved machinery and conveniences, in order to 
be able to meet the constantly increasing demands of the trade. 
Steam power is used for driving the machinery and constant em- 
ployment is furnished to a sufticient force of competent and reli- 
able workmen whose operations are conducted under the immedi- 
ate supervision of the proprietor. The trade is derived principally 
from among the very best class ot mercluint tailors and ready 



made clothing manufacturers of this city and vicinity. By the aid 
of llie steam power and machinery employed Mr. Crohn is pre- 
pared to do all kinds of sponging fine cloths, cassimeres, suitings, 
etc., at the very shortest notice and in the most satisfactory man- 
ner, and at rates that cannot fail to suit customers. He is also 
prepared to execute all orders for rolling, folding and unfolding 
all kinds of fabrics which may be shelf-worn, in the neatest and 
most workmanlike manner, making such goods have a new ami 
bright appearance. 

HOWARD COON & CO., Masons, Contractors and Builders, 
Oftice, No. 17 Milk Street.— One of the best equipped and 
most responsible among the leading firms engaged in tlie 
general building trade in Boston is that of Howard Coon & 
Co., masons, contractors and builders, wliose office is located at 
No. 17 Milk Street, witli capacious wharf and storehouse at No. 57 
Main Street, Cambridgeport. Tliis popular and reliable firm was 
establisiied some ten years since, and its career from tlie start has 
been a record of steady progress, constructing some notable pieces 
of work, among which may be mentioned the pavillion of the Bos- 
ton base ball grounds, W. L. Lockliart's block, and several oilier 
substantial pieces of architecture. The firm is prepared to enter 
into contr.aets for stone or brick work, constructing either part or 
the whole of buildings, but makes a leading specialty of large ;ind 
massive structures; while estimates on ad classes of masonry and 
building are promptly furnished, and all work entrusted to this 
firm is certain to be executed in the most expeditious and excel- 
lent maimer. An efBeient force of skilled hands are regularly em- 
ployed, while a complete equipment and all necessary facilities 
are in service; and the trade of tlie firm, which extends through- 
out the New England States, is of a highly flattering character. 
Mr. Coon, who is the sole member, the " Co." being nominal, is a 
native of tills city. He is a practical and expert mason, ot ample 
experience, and is an active and well-known member ot the Mas- 
ter Builders' Association and Mechanics' Exchange. 

PATTEN & STRATTON, Pliotographer, No. 47 Hanover 
Street.— Patten & Stratton photographers, by turning out 
first-class work at reasonable prices, have gained control 
of a large and constantly increasing patronage. The busi- 
ness was founded some twenty years ago by a Mr. Turner, and in 
1876 the style of the house became J. D. Patten <tCo., which, in 
1888, was changed to the present one of Patten & Stratton. The 
office and reception room are located on the third floor, and are 
elegantly furnished and provided with every accommodation. The 
operating room, on the fourth floor, is equipped with all the latest 
improved appliances known to the profession. Every description 
of photographic work is executed in the highest style of the art, a 
specialty being made of instantaneous photographs. Particular 
attention is also given to enlargements in oil, chromo, water col- 
ors, India ink, etc., for which class of work the house has special 
facilities. The productions of this house will bear the most rigid 
criticism, as no picture is permitted to leave the establishment 
that is not perfect in every detail. 

H& A. MORSE & CO., Coal, No. 104 State Street.— Messrs. H. 
& A. Morse & Co. establisiied their business here in 1874. 
J They handle Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Com- 
pany's coals, hard white ash, free burning white ash. 
North Franklin, Shamokin, Lorberry and Lykens Valley coals; 
Old Company's Lehigii and Jermyn white ash coal; also George's 
Creek and Cumberland coal, and possess unsurpassed facilities for 
the prompt filling of all orders by car and cargo lots, shipments 
being made direct from the mines to customers in all parts of New 
England. The coals above n,amed have no rivals as powerful heat 
producers, and sustain combustion in a manner that insures the 
greatest economy for manufacturing, steam and domestic purposes ; 
while all coal imrchased of this responsible house is guaranteed to 
maintain in every respect the highest standard of excellence, and 
holds the front rank as regards the care exercised in its preparation 
for the m;irket, coming as it does from the best-equipped collieries 
in America. The resources of the house are such that the largest 
orders can be fllled at short notice, while all connections sustained 
with mines and miners enable the firm to offer the rarest induce- 
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HKNKY L. ALBEE & CO., Manufacturers of Folding Beds, 
Klc, Nos. 30-36 W.isliington Street.— Few article.^ of furni- 
ture are so useful at the present day as a good folding bed. 
The pressure for more room in cities and towns has been 
largely met by the folding bed, which pays tor itself in a few 
months by saving the rent of an e.\tra room. In this connection 
we desire to make special reference in this commercial review of 
l'.oston,to the representative and successful firm of Messrs. Henry 
L. Albee& Co., manufacturers of folding beds, etc,, whose oBice 
;ind salesrooms are located at Nos. 30-36 Washington Street. The 
factories of this reliable liouse .are at Melrose and No. 103 Friend 
Street, Boston. Mr. Henry L. Albee who is sole proprietor, estab- 
lislied this business in 1872, since which period he has secured a 
liberal and influential pation ige in all sections of New England 




DT.CHAllD&CO., Manufacturers .and Dealers in Fine Cigars 
No. 130 Water Street.— A leading representative liouse 
^ in tlie manufiicture and sale of tine cigars in this city is 
that of D. T. Cliard & Co., located at No. l.SO Water Street. 
Tlie business was originally established in 1882 by Messrs. Little & 
Chard, the present tlrni succeeding to the control in January, 1888. 
The premises occupied for manufacturing and trade purposes 
comprise four sii.acious Hoois, and every modern facility is at liand 
for conducting the business under the nwst favorable auspices and 
upon the largest scale. Eini)loyinent is given to some fifty skilled 
hands, and tlie output is one of great magnitude and v.ariety. The 
leading brands of cigars here manufactured comprise the PuUniiin, 
La Fortnna, D. T. C, Pantello, 130, and others, while speciiil and 
piivate brands .are m.ade to order. The specialties .above named 
have attained an enormous consumption all over the 
country, .and have been conscientiously maintained at 
the highest standard of excellence. They are handled 
by the best retailers in this city and elsewlieie, and are 
recognized as staples wherever introduced. They are 
deservedly popular for tlie splendid quality of tobacco 
used, as well as for purity and care in tlieir manufac- 
ture, and are considered by connoisseurs and critical 
judges as the most fragrant, .agreeable and reliable 
cigars in the market. To tliose tobacconists who desire 
to cater to the best class of trade and to attract new 
custom, we would recommend this house as every way 
worthy of their confidence and patronage. All orders 
and coininissions are promptly lilled at terms which pre- 
clude successful competition. 

EDWARD D. HOLME.S, Lumber and Lime, No. VI 
Kilby Street.— As prime factors in the building 
trade, lumber and lime in the very nature of 
things, are articles of surpa.ssing importance 
the handling of which constitutes one of tlie great 
branches of coininercial .activity in every large city. 
The tr.ansactions in these useful and indispensable 
products through the inedluin of merchants here in 
Boston, reach vast magnitude annually, while the 
volume of business grows apace. Among the rising 
.and responsible dealers in lumber and lime in this city, 
can be named E. D. Holmes, whose office is at No. 71 
Kilby Street (Room 12). and who, although established 
in business on his own account but a comparatively 
short time, has built up a very substantial connection. 
Mr. Holmes, who is a young man and a native of Bos- 
ton, is a gentleman of entire probity in his dealings, as 
well .as a in.an of energy and experience, and prior to 
establishing himself in business, in 1886, had been for 
a number of years actively connected with .severjil 
prominent lumber firms. Mr. Holmes handles northern, 
western and southern lumber, both liard and soft, also 
lime, and does a good business, selling principally to 
dealers and large consumers, by tlie car load, and is 
prepared to fill all orders for anything in his line, in 
the most prompt and reliable manners. 



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His salesiooms aie spacious, and are fully stocked with an excel- 
lent .assortmenl of folding beds, curled hair, feathers, mattresses, 
pillows, cushions and fine bedding, which are unrivalled for qual- 
ity and reli.ability, and Iiave no superior in this country. His folding 
beds include the varieties known .as the upright wardrobe, folding 
cabinet, desk and book-case, lounge and couch beds, also chiffon- 
nier beds and Albee's famous parlor sofa bed. Mr. Albee's parlor 
and sofa bed was awarded a medal i ii 1882 at tlie Massachusetts Char- 
itable Mechanics' Association for its superiority over .all competi- 
tors. For many years the parlor and sofa beds have been greatly ad- 
mired by householders for their beauty and convenience, but their 
high price has hitherto prevented many from using tlieiii ; this 
obstacle has now been removed by Mr Albee, wlio has brought 
them within the reach of all. Mr. Albee is a native of Boston. 



OOD BROTHERS, Paints, Oils, Etc., No. 12Sud- 
buryStieet.— This popul.ar and prosperous firm 
was established fourteen years ormore ago, and 
from the start Messrs. Wood have enjoyed an excellent jiatronage. 
They occupy ample and compact quarters at No, 12 Sudbury Street, 
with commodious storehouse, also at Central Wharf, while four or 
more clerks and store hands are employed. A heavy and very 
fine stock is constantly carried on hand, comprising everything in 
the line of paints, oils, varnishes, colors, putty, gl.ass, brushes and 
painters' supplies in great variety, the firm being proprietors of 
the following meritorious articles: Falcon Ivory Black in ,Japan 
H.arvard Ready Mixed Paint, Harvard Green, German Vermilion. 
Hamburg Red ; and are sole agent for House and Villa Ready Mixed 
Paint. Steamboat Paste Paint, M.ander's English Varnishes, Bige- 
lows' Fine Varnishes, Parrotts' Fine Variii.shes. Littlefields' 
Enamel Top Dressing, Masnry's Japan and Oil Colms; and the 
trade of the concern extends all over the New England states. 



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HARRISON, BEARD & CO., Manufaetuieis ot Furniture and 
li'iiie Cabinet Work, No. 139 Friend Street, Factory; 
No. 425 Medtord Street, Charlestown.— Tliis concern, tlie 
leading representative in its line dates its inception back 
to 1.S70. when the firm ot Daniels, Harrison & Co., was formed. In 
1873 they dissolved and the present firm was then orgauizeil, com- 
posed of Samuel J. Harrison, James M. Beard and Albert T. 
Johnson. Their business has been a marked success, and has 
grown at a rapid ratio, both the retail trade and public at large, 
leengnizing the superiority, originality, elegance and durability 
ot their product. Their factory is in the Charlestown District, 
and is extensive and fully equipped with the latest improved ma- 
chinery and appliances. Upwards of fifty of the most skilful cab- 
inet makers and carvers obtainable are there employed in the 
manufacture ot full lines of the finest furniture, wainscotings, 
mantels, and interior fittings, carvings, etc., for the finest man- 
sions. The firm exercise the greatest care in the selection ot their 
materials, using only the choicest of maliogany, rosewood, French 
walnut, oak, ash, cherry, maple, and numerous other rare woods 
both foreign and domestic. The firm originate designs which a-re 
of tlie highest order of merit and are sought for in fashionable cir- 
cles, and turn out elaborate parlor and chamber sets. They 
also manufacture all descriptions of library and dining-room, fur- 
niture, hall stands, chairs and racks, tables, desks, etc., and 
all kinds of high-class cabinet work generally. In their Friend 
Street salesrooms they make the most attractive display known to 
the trade, and one that offers the most substantial inducements to 
purchasers, both as to price and quality. 

DUNSHEE & CO., Photographers, No. 3 Tremont Row.— This 
firm enjoy a high reputation and a widespread patronage 
as artist photographers, possessing a prestige and a popu- 
larity that place theju in the front rank, not only in this 
city but throughout the entire country. The business was origin- 
ally established in 18G6 by Mr. E. S. Dunshee, who was succeeded 
in 1878 by his nephew, Mr. F. F. Dunshee, and in 18815 the present 
lirni was organized by the admission of Mr. F. H. Maxfield to part 
nership. The premises occupied include a handsomely furnished 
reception room and a well equipped operating room, and every 
modern facility is afforded lor conducting all branches of the busi- 
ness under the most favorable conditions. Photography in all its 
branches is executed in the highest style of the art, and crayon, 
pastel, India ink, oil and kindred .artistic work being accomplished in 
the most superior and expeditious manner, and all at popular prices. 
A speci,alty is made of coupon tickets, which are issued in an un- 
limited number, and good initil used, for one dozen cabinet pho- 
tographs at $3.00. Mr. Dunshee is a native of Toledo, Ohio, .nnd re- 
sides in the town of Maiden. Mr. Maxfleld was born in the state 
of Maine, and is a resident of Chelsea. 

GEO. A. WARE, Wholesale Dealer in Barbers' Supplies, Mann- 
facturer of Cosmetiiiue, Soap, Camphor Ice, Oils, Bay Rum. 
Mustache Wax, Etc., No. 21 School Street.— An important 
business, well-represented by Mr. George A. Ware, is that 
of manufacturing and dealing in barbers' supplies. It was estab- 
li.shed about two years ago by .1. C. Hursell &Co., Mr. Ware being 
a member of the firm, and succeeded to tlie bnsine.ss some six 
months ago. The third floor ot the building. No. 21 School Street, 
is occupied. It is of ample dimensions .and affords every fa- 
cility for manufacturing purposes and tlie display of a large 
stock of goods, which includes a great variety of articles 
belonging to the business. Mr. Ware is the sole manufacturer of 
cosmetiqne, camphor ice, hair oils, bay rum, mustache wax, and, 
also, Hursell's Purity, and is the New England agent for J. S. 
Kirk's shaving soap. The business is conducted on a wholesale 
and retail ba^is, and is not confined to the city and vicinity, but 
extends to all parts ot New England. Mr. Ware also decorates 
shaving mugs to order in all styles, and furnishes ornamental bay 
rum and tonic bottles, and is doing a large business buying and 
selling new and second-hand barbers' chairs, furniture, etc. 



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F. HANSON. Boarding, Hack and Livery St.ible, No. 32 
Charles Street and No. 3 Willow Street.— This enterprise 
has been in operation for some forty years, and under 
the proprietorship of Mr. Hanson since 1883. Thestable 



is a substantial brick structure, two stories high, 60x80 feet in di- 
mensions, thoroughly equipped with every requisite, well ventil- 
ated, lighted and drained, and possessing first-class accommoda- 
tions for thirty-two horses. The best of conveniences are at hand 
for baiting, and every possible cai'e and attention is given to horses 
entrusted to the charge of this liouse by experienced grooms and 
stiiblemen. Tlie proprietor owns a large number of the most styl- 
ish equipages to be seen in the city, and his stock of horses kept 
for hire include those suitable for ladies' or invalid's use, ,as well 
■as others noted for their speed and slaying qualities. Among the 
vehicles are to be found elegant coaches, carriages, coupes, lan- 
daus, hacks, buggies and road wagons, and stylish, safe and reli- 
able turn-outs are let for business or pleasure, day and night, on 
very moderate terms. The liouse is also prepared to supply par- 
ties, funerals, weddings and excursions with any number of car- 
riages at short notice, and first-class coupes and coaches are kept 
for shopping or visiting. A corps ot fourteen liands contribute to 
the satisfactory operations of the house, and the patronage is 
large, first-class and permanent among the best classes ot society. 
Mr. Hanson is a New Hampshire man by birth, a resident of Bos- 
ton since 1853. 

WH. EMEItSON, Importer and Dealer in Molasses 
and Sugar, No, 40 Central Street.— Mr. W. H. Emer- 
, son, the well-known importer and dealer in domes- 
tic sugar and molasses, has been established in 
the business here since 1874, while his experience in this line of 
trade covers a iieriod of twenty-five years. He makes a specialty 
of supplying sugar refiners with raw goods, and his trade is not 
exclusively confined lo the Boston market, but being a large 
receiver of New Orleans Molasses, (only one other northern house 
receiving as much) he does a large business in this line with the 
wholesale grocersof New York, Philadelphiaand all the large cities 
of the north and east. His resources are large and ample and his 
connections abroad are thoroughly perfected. His relations with 
tlie foreign growers and shippers are ot that intimate and influen- 
tial character which enables him to command every favorable 
opportunity for procuring supplies in vast quantities and at ad- 
vantageous rates, and to guarantee the prompt and satisfactory 
fulfillment ot all orders. Mr. Emerson isa native Bostonian, in the 
prime of lite, and a well-known citizen of Cambridge. He is 
Largely interested in the Oxuard Sugar Refinery on Atlantic Av- 
enue, In this city. 

HE. CLEMENT & Co., Watches, Jewelry and Diamonds, 
No. 1!) Milk Street, Room 56.— This thriving and responsi- 
ble firm was established in 1883, moving to the present 
location in October 1887, and from the start has steadily 
pushed its way to popularity and patronage, building up a large 
tr.ade throughout the city and state. At their place of business, 
No. 19 Milk Street, (Room 56), will be found a full and first-class 
as,sortnient, which embraces fine gold and silver watches, dia- 
monds, solid silver and plated ware, opera glasses and optical 
goods. Watches, jewelry, etc., are repaired likewise in the most 
prompt :tnd excellent manner at very reasonable rates; finewaleli 
repairing being a specialty, and all work executed here is fully 
warranted to render satisfaction. Goods are sold either for cash 
or on easy payments by the week or month, and purchasers are 
assured of getting honest value and satisfactory tre,atnient at the 
very lowest figures consistent witli a first-class article and upright 
dealing. 

EM. WILSON. D. D. S., Dentist, No. 116 Court Street.— Among 
those well-known and prominent as dentists in this city 
I there are none more popular or more successful than E. 
M. Wilson, D. D. S., who has been practing his profession 
for the past twenty years and h.ts occupied the h<andsome commo- 
dious office. No. 116 Court Street, since 1886. Dr. Wilson is a regular 
graduate of the Boston Dental College, and is a practical expert 
in all branches of the science. He is particularly skillful in filling 
and preserving the natural teeth and in making artificial teeth 
singly or in sets and extracts teeth by the latest improved methods. 
The doctor numbers .among his patients many of the lending fami- 
lies of this city and vicinity and is highly recommended for his 
care and skill in all operations. 



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WF. BOWLER, Dviving and Working Horses, Nos. 106 and 
lOS Canal Street.— This gentleman lias been estaulislied 
in bnsiness here since 1S74, and deals extensively at 
private sale, in New York and Pennsylvania horses, 
making a specialty of handling those snitahle for use in the lire 
department and oilier city business, as well as for general trucking 
and carting. His stable is spacious in size, aceomniodating forty 
horses. Special care is taken by Mr. Bowler to select such horses 
Hs will meet, the demands of his patrons and all in want of a first- 
class, reliable animal. Truck, cart engine and hose horses are 
kept constantly on hand, and his facilities tor tilling orders in 
these lines and for supplying first-class stock at low prices are 
rarely equalled and never excelled in this city. He is in frequent 
receipt of carloads of horses, of a quality and character for both 
driving and working, that commend them to the conndence and 
patronage of close and critical buyers. Square dealing and the 
widely known worth of the proprietor have always inspired the 
fullest confidence and established this house in the general esteem 
as a reliable representative. Mr. Bowler is a native of New York 
State, and a resident of Charlestown. 

ICOHN, Clothing, Gent's Furnishing Goods, Etc., Nos. .59 and 
61 Knecland Street.— One of the leading and popular local 
establishments in its important branch of mercantile in- 
dustry, is that of Mr. I. Colin, dealer in clothing, gent's fur- 
nishing goods, liats, caps, boots and shoes. The spacious premises 
consist of two floors of a building 35x35 feet in surface dimensions 
and the salesrooms are fitted up in a remarkably neat and attrac- 
tive style. The stock displayed is carefully selected from the best 
markets and represents the finest goods, newest novelties, and 
latest and most fashionable styles in the staple goods above enu- 
merated. Four experienced clerks are in courteous attendance 
upon the many patrons, and the house has an enviable reputation 
for flrst-class goods and fair and equitable dealing. Mr. Colin, 
although still a young man lias liad a wide business experience. 
and possesses a comprehensive and valu,able knowledge of the 
trade, he having served for some years as a clerk. 

GUSTAVO PRESTON, Commission Merchant, No. 37 Central 
Street.— The wholesale handling of sugar, syrups and kin- 
dred grocers' specialties, and the products of the West 
Indies and Spain tlirough the medium of commis- 
sion houses in Boston, annually reaches enormous proportions. 
Prominent among those engaged In this particular line in this city 
is Gustavo Preston, the well known commission merchant and 
importer of Clauze's triple flavor bay rum, sugar, molasses, salt 
olives, Alineira grapes, etc. Mr. Preston was born at Porto Rico, 
West Indies, but has lived in Boston .since boyhood. He lias been 
established in business since 1882, and from the Bist has been uni- 
formly successful ; his trade, which is large and active, extending 
throughout the New England States, and also to New York. Mr. 
Preston handles besides the goods enumerated, also a general line 
of Spanish and West India products, and is a direct importer and 
commission merchant, receiving consignments regularly; and is 
preiiared to fill all orders for the trade in the most expeditious 
and reliable manner. 

SB. LOGAN, .Auctioneer, Real Estate and Insurance Agent, 
No. 47 State Street.— Mr. S. B. Logaii; the popular 
J and reliable auctioneer, real estate and insurance 
agent and a Justice of the Peace, likewise has been 
engaged in this line for over twenty years, and has establislieil an 
extensive and substantial business connection throughout llostnn 
and environs, numbering among his clientele some of the stauncli- 
est citizens in the community. He carries on a gener.al re.al estate 
business, buying, selling, exchanging and renting city and country 
proiierty of all kinds, and also negotiates mortgages ; while rents 
are collected likewise; special attention being given to the care 
and managment of estates. Insurance is effected in first-class fire 
companies at lowest rates, Mr. Logan being local agent also for 
the insurance comp;iny of North America, in short, everything 
connected with the purchase, sale and management of realty and 
lire insurance brokerage is attended to in the most judicious and 
satisfactory manner. Mr. Logan was born at Halifax, N. S., but 
has resided in Boston some forty odd years, and is a prominent 
member of the Fire Insurance Brokers' Association. 



IL. PRATT & CO., Metals, New and Old; No. 34 India 
Street.— A firm who have established a first-cl.ass name as 
J dealers in metals, new and old, is that of I. L. Pratt & Co.. 
of No. 34 India Street. This well-conducted concern vv.as 
established in 1880 by I. L. Pratt who had a long experience in 
handling metals and business capacity of the highest order. In 
tlie spring of 1888 he admitted into partnership his son, L. T. Pratt 
and under their joint management the house lias extended its 
o|ierations in a marked degree. The premises occupied by tlie 
firm from the start comprise the store and cellar of a fine four 
story building, in dimensions 25x110 feet with a factory at Border 
Street, East Boston. Messrs. I. L. Pratt & Co. are large dealers in 
metals, new and olil, ingot copper, spelter, lead, tin, ingot brass, 
etc., and make a specialty of old metals which are melted in their 
furnace and sold to founders throughout the country. They employ 
several men in their establishment and have a trade extending all 
over New England as well as Missouri, Ohio, New Jersey, New 
York, Baltimore and various points west. 

RS. HOOD, Broker in Old R. R. Iron and Scrap, No. 24)^ 
Central Street.— Mr. R. S. Hood, broker in old railroad 
J iron and scrap, buys for and sells to foundries, rolling 
mills etc., old iron of every description, but makes a 
specialty of old rails; transactions being by car lots exclusively, 
and his trade which extends throughout the New England States, 
is of a very substantial character. He has been engaged in busi- 
ness on his own account over five years, and has established a large 
permanent connection ; and is prepared to All all orders for any- 
thing in this line in the most reliable manner. Mr. Hood, who is a 
native of Nova Scotia, is a young man of ample experience, and en- 
terprise, and prior to starting in business for himself in 1883, had 
been employed for some time as bookkeeper in tlie same line. 

JN. BROOKS, Cotton Buyer, Room 68, Nos.,''>3 and 55 Kilby 
Street.— For more than twenty-three years Mr. Brooks has 
J been actively and successfully engaged in this important 
branch of commercial activity, and during the entire 
period he has conducted bnsiness in the s.ame building which 
he at present occupies with unbroken prosperity. He handles 
cotton, on commission exclusively, and buys for manufacturers of 
cotton fabrics throughout the New England States, shipping direct 
from the south to the mills, and h.as a fine business connection. 
Mr. Brooks, who is a gentleman in the prime of life, active and 
energetic, was born in New Hampshire, but has been a resident of 
this city many years. 

EA. COSTIGAN, Shipwright & Caulker, No. 361 Commercial 
Street.— A well-known representative in this business is 
^ Mr. E. A Costigan who lias been establislied in it for thirty 
years, and located in the premises now occupied, since 
1878. He has always conducted a large business and employed at 
times upwards of half a hundred competent workmen. A native 
of Cliarlestown and a resident of Dorchester, lie has for many years 
been prominently conspicuous in the business affairs of Boston, and 
is well-known in shipping and commercial circles. He does the 
best class of work and is highly endorsed and recommended as a 
thoroughly reliable master workman. He furnishes estimates for 
all work in his line, and makes contracts and gives his prompt at- 
tention to all orders entrusted to him. He is one of tlie oldest 
shipwrights and caulkers in the city. 

MAURICE REARDON, Manufacturer of Horse Collars, Nos. 
+4 and 46 Sudbury Street.— Mr. Maurice Reardon is a cele- 
brated manufacturer of horse collars. His are the best in 
the United States without exception. They are as per- 
fect a fit as fine custom shoes for men. Mr. Reardon started in 
business here thirty-flve years .ago, and early achieved an enviable 
reputation for the superiority of liis product. He is recognized 
by leading horse owners, as being the most expert manufacturer 
of horse collars in the country, and also promptly attends to the 
repairing of collars and liarness. His collars are all hand work, 
possessing features of excellence not found in any other make, 
and every man interested in securing to his liorse the greatest 
comfort and capacity for work or speeding, sliould have one of 
Keardon's collars. It will prove an invaluable investment. 



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TMcCOSKER, Portrait and Commercial Pliotograplier, No. 
51 Wasliingtoii Street.— Mr. T. MeCcsker is a thorough 
^ artist and fully unilerstancls all the details necessary to 
complete a satisfactory photograph and in his fine portrait 
worli there is always a pleasing variety, the pos6 being character- 
ized by an ease and grace and a superiority of finish seldom ob- 
tained. Mr. McCoslier talies pride in all his work, and copies and 
enlarges pictures wliioh are finished in ink, crayon, oil, water col- 
ors or pastile as may be desired, with a neatness, elegance and 
perfection unequalled. He also gives particular attention to com- 
mercial photography and in this direction executes orders tor 
many of the leading representative manufacturing and business 
houses in tliis city and vicinity. A native of New York, Mr. Mc- 
Cosker, who has been established in business since 1861, has been 
located in the premises now occupied during tlie past five years 
and has established a reputation placing liim in the front rank 
among tlie most distinguislied artists in the city. The premises 
wliicli consist of a neatly, handsomely arranged parlor and thor- 
oughly equipped opeiating room, '25x60 feet in area, contains 
many beautiful specimens of liis artistic handiwork Among his 
customers are to be found many of tlie leading citizens of Boston 
and suburbs, and to .assist liim in his operation, four skilled pho- 
tograpiiers are employed 

DTOY, Tailor and Draper, No. 11 Chanes Street.— One of 
the most genial, popular and marked by skillful and 
^ painstaking custom tailors and drapers of Boston is Mr. 
D. Toy, wlio brings to bear an experience of over thirty- 
tluee years, derived from permanent connection with tlie best 
circles of tlie trade in Europe and here, and since starting in busi- 
ness in 1874, lie lias developed a widespread, desirable connection. 
Fasliionable tailoring is done iiere on correct principles, and gen- 
tlemen can here be measured witli a guarantee of securing tlie 
latest styles, choicest imported fabrics and superior workmanship. 
Mr. Toy's skill as a cutter has long been recognized ; he is remark- 
ably successful in accurately meeting tlie requirements of every 
figure, and spares no pains to suit tlie most fastidious. He carries 
a large and most desirable stock of imported fabrics, including all 
the newest siiades, patterns and textures in coatings, pantaloon 
stuffs, for overcoats, etc. He makes to order from measure with 
a guarantee of perfect fitting garments and lias the permanent 
patronage of many of tlie leading citizens and meicliants of Bos- 
ton and New England, also a trade all over tlie United States. His 
old customers find tliemselves better suited here, and both as to 
style, durability comfort and fine finish every esEcntial is a cer- 
tainty with garments emanating from this well-known establish- 
ment. 

J LD COLONY GROCERY, Win. C. Cooledge, Proprietor, No. 23.'i 
South Street.— A well ordered and lirst-class general groc- 
ery establishment is the popular and well known Old Colony 
Grocery. Win. C. Cooledge, proprietor, where can always be 
found a full and fine assortment of everything comprehended 
under the head of fancy and staple groceries, and patrons are as- 
sured of getting honest weight and measure, as well as a very 
superior article and prompt and polite attention in every instance 
here, wliile the prices prevailing maintained at the lowest figures, 
consistent with excellent goods and honorable dealing. This pros- 
perous busine.ss was established many years ago by the father of 
the gentleman whose name heads the sketch, and was formerly 
conducted on Beach Street, vviiere the present proprietor assumed 
control some twenty years since, subsequently moving to Knee- 
land Street, whence it was removed to tlie commodious quarters 
now occupied about four years ago. The store, which is 30x72 feet 
in dimensions, is finely fitted up and well arranged, while two 
competent assistants are in attendance. A large and first-class 
stock is kept constantly on hand, comprising choice teas and 
coHees, pure, fresh spices, condiments, baking powder, pickles, 
preserves, canned goods In great variety and table delicacies, 
sugars, syrups, prepared cereals, dried fruit, fine wines, liquors 
and bottled goods, prime dairy and creamery butter, cheese and 
fresh eggs, lard, smoked meats and fish, best brands of family 
flour, oatmeal, cornmeal, rice, beans, peas, soda, salt, saleratns, 
soap, starch, shelf goods, etc., etc.; all orders receiving immedi- 
ate attention. 



WILLIAM ,EGIN, Manufacturer of Pipes, No. 41 Beverly 
Street.— For the past twenty-six years William Egln, 
manufacturer of all kinds of iron pipes and general 
sheet-iron worker, now located at No. 41 Beverly Street, 
has been engaged in business on his own account, and during this 
entire period he has maintained a well deserved reputation for 
skill .and reliability, while his trade, which is large and prosper- 
ous, extends throughout the greater portion of the New England 
States, with a fine local patronage also. Mr. Egin, wlio is a man 
in the prime of life, and a native of Boston, is a thoroughly practi- 
cal sheet-iron worker himself, of long and v.aried experience, and 
is a master of his art in all its branches. He occupies as shop a 
50x75 foot (third) floor, with ample and excellent facilities, and em- 
ploys a large force of skilled workmen. Mr. Egin manufactures 
everything in the line of iron pipes for piping blowers for shavings, 
saw dust, emery wlieels, rag and cotton pickers, grain elevators, 
foul air, g.as, smoke, etc., also hot air pipes of every description; 
ill sliort, pipes of all kinds and sizes, piping blowers being a spe- 
cialty, while estimates are cheerfully furnislied upon application. 
Sheet-iron work of all kinds is executed also in the most expedious 
and superior manner, and jobbing likewise promptly and reliably 
attended to; all orders receiving immediate attention. 

HP. EMERSON & CO., Manufacturers' Agents, Fancy Goods 
and Small Wares, No. 15 Kingston Street.- Tliis firm es- 
^ tablislied business here in 1874, and have built up a repu- 
tation and a trade that places them in the front rank of 
enterprise, popularity and success. They occupy spacious and 
well-appointed salesrooms, and are in a position to conduct their 
business under the most favorable conditions. They handle the 
choicest pi'oductions known to the trade in fancy goods and small 
wares, as agents tor the manufacturers, and make large and valu- 
able shipments to all parts of the United States and Canada. They 
carry a full and complete assortment in stock, including the latest 
styles and freshest novelties in every line, wliile the favorable con- 
ditions under wliich purchases are nuade enable tliem to offer in- 
ducements to customers in terms and prices that are of the most 
advantageous character. The lines represented will be found as 
rich and attractive as it is possible to make tliein, while the selec- 
tions are made with tliat taste and judgment which involve a 
thorough and intimate knowledge of the wants of the trade 

WM. A. CARRIE, Bank Stationer, Lithographer and Printer, 
No. 84 Devonshire Street.— Among the active, energetic 
young business men in tin's city, there are probably none 
more enterprising than Mr. Wm. A. Carrie, the popular 
bank stationer, who occupies the commodious basement under tlie 
Nation,al Bank of the Commonwealth. He has had many year.s' ex- 
perience in this line of business and during the three years he lias 
been established he has built up a large flourishing business, de- 
rived from the banks insurance companies and inerchants, and is 
fully equal in every respect to that.ot.any other dealers in the city. 
Lithographing and commercial and general printing, is a feature 
of tlie business which is carried on extensively, the work being ex- 
ecuted in every variety of style. Mr. Carrie is a native of Ontario, 
Canada, but has been a resident of the United States many years, 
and was brought up in Chicago. He h,is had eleven years' exper- 
ience in the stationery and printing business, and was for a long 
time witli the firm of J. C. Hall & Co., of Providence, R. I. 

JM. RODONACHI, Importer of Smyrna and Mediterranean 
Products, No. 79 Milk Street, Room 21.— An old-estab- 
j lislied and responsible Boston merch.ant, engaged in the 
handling of Smyrna and Mediterranean products, is Mr. J. 
M. Rodonaclii, whose office is located at No. 79 Milk Street (Room 
21). He is one of the very oldest and foremost merchants in this 
particular branch of eommerci.al activity in Boston. Mr. RodonachI 
was born in Smyrna. Asia Minor, but has resided in this city since 
1848, having been the Greek Consul here for some twenty-four 
years. Mr. Rodonaclii is a direct importer of general products 
from Smyrna and the Mediterranean ports, making a leading 
specialty, however, of the importing of figs and emery, and is pre- 
pared to fill all orders for anything in this line in the most prompt 
and reliable manner. His business connection extends throughout 
the whole of the United States. 



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ISAAC H. DINNER, Ladies' Travelling Caps and Tennis Caps, 
No. 117 Sununer Street. — In no industry has enterprise been 
so plainly demonstrated as in the manufacture of hats and 
caps. Thus, we find one house making a cheap line of silk 
hats, another a superior grade of the same article, another devot- 
ing all its energies to str:"- ••..■i- "'Miii.-r tM the production of 




caps.and so on ilii null lln \\h)Ii i itCj^ory. A i)roniinent manu- 
facturer in this cit\ wlio \v is one of the first to recognize the .ad- 
vantages to be deiived ftom m ikmg a special line of caps, is Mr. 
Isaac H.Dinnei of No llTSummei htieet. This gentleman started 
business on Lhauncy Stieet, in lh78 as a member of the firm of 
Alexander, Foster & Dinner. Siibseiiuently tlie firm was changed 
to Alexander & Dinner, and in 1881 Mr. Dinner became tlie sole pro- 
prietor. Five years ago he removed to his present premises, No. 
117 Summer Street, where he occupies two floors, each 30x100 feet 
in dimensions. One of these is used as a stock room, and the 
other for manufacturing purposes. Mr. Dinner confines himself 
to the production of superior grades of ladies' travelling and ten- 




nis caps, making a specialty of cliildren's fancy caps, and to 
selling direct to the trade. His newly patented driving cap pro- 
tects the forehead from the sliarp, penetrating wind in severe 
winter weather, and is the most comfortable and most .salable cap 
yet placed on the market. They are made of the finest lieavcr 
and elysian goods in blue, brown and black, for the best trade 
only. The business has been a remarkably successful one from 
the start, and a large distributing trade has been established 
throughout New England, tlie West and Canada. Mr. Dinner, 
who is a native of Germany, has resided in Boston since boy- 
hood, and lias gained success by deserving it. 

GLAMKIN & CO., Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes. No- 
28 Tremont Kovv.— Prominent among the representative 
J and reliable boot and shoe manufacturers of tlie city of 
Boston, is the popular firm of Messrs. G. Lamkin&Co., 
whose office and salesroom are located at No. 28 Tremont Row. 
Tills business was established thirty-five years ago by Mr. G. 
Lamkin, who conducted it till 1881, when Mr. 6.L. Boyce became 
a partner. The firm's f.actory, which is one of the best etiuipped 
in the country and furnishes constant employment to 300 opera- 
tives, is situated at Milford, Conn. They manufacture largely all 
kinds of ladies', misses' and children's fine shoes, also men's, boys' 
and youths' boots and shoes, and they likewise deal extensively 
in rubbers. Their boots and shoes are made Irom the best mater- 
ials, and none but first-class hands are employed in their manufac- 
ture, while every detail as to quality and reliability of stock, 
character of workmanship, style and finish, is carefully supervised 
by experts, before the goods are allowed to leave the factory. In 
the Boston store of the firm, a large stock of all descriptions of 
boots and shoes is constantly on hand, and the prices quoted nec- 
essarily attract the attention of close and careful buyers. At the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. 1881. G. Lamkin 
& Co. were awarded a medal for their fine shoes. The trade is 
both wholesale and retail, and now extends throughout New 
England, New York, the Middle and Western States. Mr. G. Lam- 
kin was born in Vermont, but has resided in Boston for the last 



forty years, while his partner, Mr. Boyce, is likewise a native of 
Vermont. Tliey are highly regarded in trade circles for their en- 
ter|)rise and integrity, and tho.se interested requiring first-class 
boots and shoes cannot do better than give their order.s to this 
respimsible house, where they will obtain adv.aiitages in goods 
and prices, very difficult to be secured elsewhere. 

STEPHEN L. BAKTLETT, Teas, Cocoas and Cho<-olates, Sole 
Importer of Beiisdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoas and ClioeoUites, 
No. 27 Broad Street.— .iinong the most successful and best 
known houses engaged in the wholesale handling of teas, 
cocoas and chocolates rliat have come into existence of recent 
years in Boston may be naninl that of .Stephen L. Bartlett, whose 
office and salesroom are located at No. '27 Broad Street. This pros- 
perous business was established in 1885 by the firm of W. L. Hill & 
Co , of which the present proprietcu' was the junior member, and 
under the style mentioned was conducted up to June, 1888, when 
Mr. Bartlett assumed sole control, and has since continued it alone 
with uninterrupted success. He handles a general line of teas, 
cocoas and chocolates, importing direct, and makes a specialty of 
fine grades of cocoas, while he is sole importer of Bensdorp's 
Royal Dutch cocoas and chocolates. Mr. Bartlett occupies for 
office purposes the whole of a 25x75 foot Hoor, and carries cnn- 
stantly on hand a complete and ftr.st class stock, while several 
competent salesmen are in attendance. The transactions of the 
house are with wholesale dealers and jobbers ; all orders for the 
trade being promptly and reliably attended to, and the business 
which embraces the sale in the United States and Canada, is large 
and active and very extensive; giving evidence of steady and 
substantial increase. 

MILLER & .SON. Manufacturing Confectioner.s. Factory. No. 
l.W Canal Street.— .\niong the leading and best knouii 
candy manufacturers that have come into prominence of 
recent years in Boston may be named Miller & Son. man- 
ufacturing confectioners, wliose productions are in steady and 
growing demand in tlie tr,ade throughout New England, owing to 
their general excellence. The goods |iroduced by this firm are of 
a very superior quality, being made from absolutely pure and 
fresh ingredients, and are of choice flavor, their oldlashioned 
molasses candy being an article of exceptional merit; while their 
penny goods have secured an enduring hold on popular favor. 
Tills prosperous business was establislied about four years ago by 
Messrs. Charles H., Charles N., and W. A. Miller, father and sons 
respectively, and under their joint management was conducted 
up to July last, when the senior member w.as removed by death, 
the .sons continuing the business alone since under the original 
firm name with uninterrupted success. The factory occupies tliree 
commodious floors, and has ample and complete manufacturing 
facilities, while a dozen or more hands are employed. The pro- 
ductions include plain, f,ancy and mixed candies delicious and 
toothsome confections in quite a variety, the speci.alties being old- 
fashioned molasses candy and penny goods, while an Al assort- 
ment is constantly carried in stock. 

MERWIN B. "WlNEGAR & CO., Stationery, Fancy Goods 
Etc.,No.40K Cambridge Street.— Mr. Wiiiegar started this 
business in M.ay, 1888, and bringing an unlimited store of 
enterprise, energy and ability to bear upon his operations 
has acquired a success :is gratifying as it is pronounced. He has 
developed a trade of permanent and influential char.acter as a fair 
dealing and honorable merchant. The store is I5x.3o feet in di- 
mensions, and IS well adapted in every respect for the purposes of 
the business. It is fitted up in a tasteful, attractive style, and con- 
tains a very superior .assortment of stationery, articles of every de- 
scription, fancy goods in great variety, foreign and domestic toys 
in jirofusion and suitable for holiday seasons, blank books, novels, 
periodicals and magazines, novelties in cards, pictorials, juvenile 
books, cigars of the choicest brands, and all the principal daily 
and weekly newspapers. The establishment is .also a laundry 
agency, in connection with which the service is prompt and re- 
liable. Papers and periodicals are promptly and regularly deliv- 
ered at the addresses of customers at the lowest rates. An active, 
steadily increasing trade is enjoyed. Mr. Winegar is a n.ative of 
New York city, and h,as resided in Boston for the past fifteen years. 



